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Business owners and directors who fail to pay fines can lose in more ways than just financially. When a Derbyshire company fell foul of the Health and Safety Executive following a near-fatal accident to one of its employees, the fine that resulted after the investigation amounted to more than a quarter of a million pounds. Continue reading →
Football Association (FA) rules require that, where disputes arise between players’ agents and clubs, they must be resolved by arbitration rather than by public court proceedings. The extent of that requirement came under analysis in a High Court case that raised novel contractual issues. Continue reading →
There is a common belief that in any contract, if the goods or services provided do not do what they are intended to do it will open the door for a claim in damages. That is not always so, as a recent case shows. Continue reading →
Judicial powers to review decisions reached by dispute arbitrators are strictly limited and do not provide an opportunity for disappointed parties to refight factual issues that have already been resolved. The High Court succinctly made that point in a case concerning the acrimonious demise of a business partnership. Continue reading →
Collecting debts is often a long and arduous process, but the use of bankruptcy proceedings can be an effective means of bringing matters to a head. That was certainly so in one case in which a businessman tried, but failed, to avoid bankruptcy in respect of a judgment debt totalling more than £16 million. Continue reading →
A hospital trust has been criticised for “serious failings” that led to the death of an elderly patient as a result of drinking cleaning fluid. An Inquest into her death, held between 10th and 18th September 2018, has resulted in the issue of a Regulation 28 Report (Prevention of Future Death report) by the Coroner. Continue reading →
As a family, we continue struggling to come to terms with what happened to Joan on 17 September last year.
We have found the Inquest both daunting and traumatic at times listening to the evidence.
We wish to thank both the Coroner and the Police, for conducting a thorough and wide‑ranging investigation into the circumstances of Joan’s death and also the Jury for the extremely diligent way they considered the evidence and detailed conclusions reached.
It is our sincere hope that the Hospital Trust learns lessons and takes the appropriate remedial action to prevent another death in these circumstances, particularly when it should never have happened in the first place.
We would like to make it clear that we do not blame Nurse Alba Duran personally for Joan’s tragic death.
Finally we would like to thank our friends and family for their kindness and support over the last year.
The aim of compensation is to put victims of negligence as nearly as possible in the same position they would have been in had they not been injured. In a good example of that principle being applied, a woman who lost a leg in a road accident was awarded more than £4 million in damages. Continue reading →
Jerome O’Sullivan, a Partner specialising in Construction Dispute Resolution, recently successfully concluded a high value and complex dispute in the Technology & Construction Court. Continue reading →
More deliberation and responsibility needs to be brought to transactions by dealers, buyers and sellers in the classic car world, say London Solicitors Healys LLP, following the distressing news which was announced yesterday in the classic car world of the appointment of administrators to the troubled historic car sales, restoration and preparation business JD Classics which had publicly been perceived as a beacon in the sector. Continue reading →
