Ever got the feeling you’re being lied to? In this week’s NLJ, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School (aka ‘The insider’) relays a classic of the genre, namely, a personal injury claimant who was found to be ‘breathtakingly dishonest’
Regan notes that he has no doubt the claimant’s solicitors—‘a firm I know to be decent’—were also taken in by the claimant, who was genuinely the victim of an accident, although she subsequently told untruths about her symptoms, with consequential fallout for some of the instructed experts in her case.
He praises the work of those acting for the defendant, who ‘dug deep’ into the evidence, as well as Mr Justice Ritchie’s judicial analysis of the medical evidence. Regan writes: ‘Doctors and those who instruct them would both benefit from looking at how, where necessary, Sir Andrew Ritchie deconstructed opinions and found gaping holes and lapses.’
