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March 2018

Musician Wins Hearing Loss Case

Musician Wins Hearing Loss Case

The Claimant, a professional viola player, employed in an orchestra at the Royal Opera House (ROH), claimed damages for hearing loss, namely acoustic ...

Qualified one-way costs shifting: What constitutes an exception to the rules and when will the Court apply its discretion in relation to the cost award?

Qualified one-way costs shifting: What constitutes an exception to the rules and when will the Court apply its discretion in relation to the cost award?

Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) applies to personal injury claims commenced after 1 April 2013. It provides that a bona fide, losing claimant ...

Asbestos – A Limitation Decision

Asbestos – A Limitation Decision

The Claimant, aged 81, claimed provisional damages against each of the Defendants for alleged asbestos–related injury leading to the development of di ...

£170,000 credit fraud hire claim results in custodial sentences

£170,000 credit fraud hire claim results in custodial sentences

DAC Beachcroft secures 12 month custodial and 9 month suspended sentence for husband and wife fraudsters in £170,000.00 credit fraud hire claim.

New Code offers product recall guidance

New Code offers product recall guidance

Product recall principles set out in new Code The first government-backed Code of Practice for product recall in the UK has been launched by the new O ...

Fair-handed approach? Latest on challenging Health Service Ombudsman decisions

Fair-handed approach? Latest on challenging Health Service Ombudsman decisions

Summary The Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman investigates around 4,000 complaints a year (mainly relating to NHS services), with around 40 ...

Brexit Briefs - How will Brexit affect the Green Card?

Brexit Briefs - How will Brexit affect the Green Card?

DAC Beachcroft Partner, Jasminka O'Hora, discusses how Brexit could affect the Green Card, in the next video in our series of Brexit Briefs.

Beauticians, Behaviours and Bogus Claims

Beauticians, Behaviours and Bogus Claims

The proportion of claims handled by DAC Beachcroft Claims Limited involving allegations of negligence by beauticians, spas and leisure centres and bre ...

What is Fundamental Dishonesty? In this case, a central allegation to the case, based upon a lie

What is Fundamental Dishonesty? In this case, a central allegation to the case, based upon a lie

In the case of Razumas v Ministry of Justice 2018 EWHC 215 (QB), the Court considered how to deal with a Claimant who had positively pleaded a mislead ...

Brexit Briefs - The legal planning regime in a post-Brexit world

Brexit Briefs - The legal planning regime in a post-Brexit world

DAC Beachcroft Senior Associate, Andrew Morgan, discusses what the changes could be to the legal planning regime in the UK in a post-Brexit world, in ...