Health

Recent caselaw on vicarious liability, quantum and the process of seeking permission for a civil claim for injuries occurring while committing an imprisonable offence for which the potential claimant was later convicted, are all discussed in NLJ’s personal injury update column this week. Vijay Ganapathy, partner at Leigh Day specialising in industrial disease and complex injury cases, explores the issues in each case.

Is the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as radical as many critics would have us believe? In this week’s NLJ, Professor Graham Zellick KC, a Senior Master of the Bench, asserts it is not.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is not the seminal, fundamental reform it is said to be, argues Graham Zellick

The application of the forfeiture rule in assisted dying cases: Sukhninder Panesar examines a delicate balancing act for the courts

Vijay Ganapathy discusses some key decisions in personal injury which will provide important guidance for future cases

Is our criminal appeals system fit for purpose? Jon Robins, NLJ columnist, writes that he recently attended an ‘astonishing press conference’ on the Lucy Letby case, in which the international panel of medical experts, working pro bono, ‘did not equivocate.

Welcome to the brave new world of neuropolitics! In this week’s NLJ, Harry Lambert, Outer Temple Chambers, continues his fascinating series on the fast-emerging area of neurorights with a look at free will, our sense of self, individual agency and freedom of thought.

In a small road accident claim, do we really need to know the full details of the claimant’s childhood medical history? ‘In modest personal injury claims, routine, unnecessary and inappropriate disclosure of the entirety of claimants’ medical records is not acceptable,’ Charles Davey, a barrister with The Barrister Group, writes in this week’s NLJ.

Is our criminal appeals system any more prepared to recognise an injustice than it was back in the ‘bad old days’? Jon Robins reports

Solicitors & courts are often indifferent to claimants’ rights to confidentiality, writes Charles Davey, setting out a blueprint for change to the disclosure rules