Helicopter Crash Ruling Highlights Risk of Suing the Wrong Company

Helicopter Crash Ruling Highlights Risk of Suing the Wrong Company

Commercial Law, Personal Injury

Companies within the same group frequently have almost identical names, but that does not detract from their independent legal personalities. As a High Court case concerning an offshore helicopter crash showed, that fundamental principle constitutes a trap into which the unwary persistently fall. The helicopter’s passengers and crew lost their lives after it fell into the sea whilst on its […]

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Frontal Lobe Injury Victim Receives Seven-Figure Compensation

Frontal Lobe Injury Victim Receives Seven-Figure Compensation

Personal Injury

Not all disabilities are obvious to the casual observer but their impact on day-to-day lives can nevertheless be devastating. In a case on point, a woman who suffered damage to the frontal lobe of her brain in a road traffic accident received seven-figure compensation. The woman suffered a closed head injury when a speeding driver collided with her vehicle. After

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High Court Grants Child Murderers of Angela Wrightson Lifetime Anonymity

High Court Grants Child Murderers of Angela Wrightson Lifetime Anonymity

Crime

Balancing freedom of the press against the human rights of individuals is always a fraught exercise and, as a High Court case showed, that is doubly so in a criminal context when young children commit heinous offences. The case concerned two women who were aged 13 and 14 when they murdered Angela Wrightson, a vulnerable adult, in Hartlepool. They inflicted

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Divorce - A Good Lawyer Will Always Advise You to Compromise

Divorce – A Good Lawyer Will Always Advise You to Compromise

Divorce

A good divorce lawyer, whilst ever ready to fight your corner, will always urge you in the direction of compromise. The reason for that was made plain by a case in which a wealthy couple’s self-defeating animosity resulted in them spending most of their liquid assets on litigation. During their 22-year marriage, which yielded three children, the couple lived comfortably,

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Covert Recordings Lawfully Used in Evidence

‘Missing Trader’ Fraud – Covert Recordings Lawfully Used in Evidence

Crime

So-called ‘missing trader’ frauds yield vast profits to organised criminals but can be extraordinarily hard to detect. However, the task faced by police in tackling such operations may be rendered a little easier by a Court of Appeal ruling that covert recordings were lawfully used in evidence against two perpetrators. The case concerned a group of companies that dealt in

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Dismissed Evangelical Vicar Fails in Rare Marriage Discrimination Claim

Dismissed Evangelical Vicar Fails in Rare ‘Marriage Discrimination’ Claim

Civil Litigation

Every employer presumably knows that sex and race discrimination are unlawful, but fewer may be aware that marriage and civil partnership are also protected characteristics. An unusual case on point concerned a vicar who claimed that his dismissal was an act of discrimination arising from the acrimonious breakdown of his marriage. The ethos of the vicar’s church was conservative and

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Woman Wins NHS Damages to Cover Costs of Foreign Commercial Surrogacy

Woman Wins NHS Damages to Cover Costs of Foreign Commercial Surrogacy

Personal Injury

A woman whose hopes of bearing children were stymied by medical staff’s failure to detect early signs of cervical cancer has won the right to substantial damages – including the reasonable cost of funding commercial surrogacy arrangements in California. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the case recognised a fundamental shift in the law’s idea of what constitutes a family and

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