Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury

  • Editorial piece for Medicine Science and the Law

    Stephanie Prior, Partner - Anthony Gold Solicitors - July 2010

    Medicine, Science and the Law Stephanie looks at five recent cases...

  • Editorial piece for Medicine Science and the Law

    Stephanie Prior, Partner - Anthony Gold Solicitors

    Medicine, Science and the Law Stephanie looks at four recent cases...

  • Pressure Sore Patient Wins £25,000

    Stephanie Prior - Partner, Anthony Gold Solicitors - 9th April 2010

    The partner of a man who went into hospital for a routine left total hip replacement has been awarded compensation of £25,000.

  • A -v- Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust

    Stephanie Prior - Partner, Anthony Gold Solicitors April 2010

    The Claimant, (A), was admitted to Lewisham Hospital on 13 June 2006 following a fall in the street. A was 77 years of age at the time

  • Gracia returns home to her family in Brazil for further medical care.

    Jenny Kennedy - Partner, Anthony Gold Solicitors April 2010

    Anthony Gold, has successfully arranged the repatriation of her client to Brazil for further medical attention and rehabilitation.

  • G -v- Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust

    Stephanie Prior - Partner, Anthony Gold Solicitors April 2010

    The Claimant, (G), was 29 years old at the time of events in question. G already had two small children, aged 3 years and 6 months respectively, when she attended her local family planning clinic seeking contraceptive advice.

    On 8 December 2005, G returned to her local family planning clinic where she had a contraceptive implant inserted into the upper part of her left arm.

  • Stress: The Importance

    David Marshall, Partner
    Managing Partner - December/January 2010
    Claims for workplace intimidation and harassment were among those expected to increase as the economic downturn impacted on everyone's workload. Law firm HR policies could usefully include information about effective time and stress management...

  • Planning Ahead

    Stephanie Prior, Partner
    Personal Injury Law Journal - December 2009/January 2010
    Stephanie highlights the possible effects of the new pensions rules on personal injury claims...

  • Law and Science

    Stephanie Prior, Partner
    Medicine, Science and the Law - January 2010
    Stephanie looks at four recent cases...

  • An Overview of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009

    Mariko Wilson, Personal Injury team
    On 12 November 2009 The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 received Royal Assent. The Act includes the first major reforms of the coroner system for over 100 years as well as provisions aimed at improving the experience of victims of crime and witnesses who come into contact with the judicial system...

  • Finding the Time

    Amanda Hopkins, Solicitor
    Personal Injury Law Journal - October 2009
    Amanda Hopkins delves into the ambiguities of limitation periods...

  • Tracing the Faultline

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal - 6 October 2009
    David reviews how the courts determine causation and calculate compensation in stress at work claims...

  • Taking Liberties

    Stephanie Prior, Partner
    Personal Injury Law Journal - July/August 2009
    Stephanie examines recent changes to mental health laws, with a focus on the deprivation of liberty safeguards...

  • Law and Science

    Stephanie Prior, Partner
    Medicine, Science and the Law - October 2009
    Stephanie looks at four recent cases...

  • Interim Payments - First Orders

    Stephanie Prior, Solicitor
    Personal Injury Law Journal - May 2009
    Stephanie investigates the guidance on interim payments presented by Cobham Hire Services Ltd v Eeles...

  • Wound Up

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal, 21 April 2009
    With stress at work claims on the rise, practitioners need to consider the preparatory work required to win them, says David Marshall...

  • Stressing the Issue

    David Marshall, Partner
    Solicitors Journal, 21 April 2009
    David Marshall considers the calculation of damages in occupational stress claims...

  • The Cost of Clinical Negligence

    David Marshall, Partner, Anthony Gold
    Few areas of the law are quite so political, of so much interest to commentators, as clinical negligence litigation. As a clinical negligence practitioner, I am not at all afraid to make the case for the tort system, to...

  • Breaking Down the Barriers to Rehabilitation

    David Marshall, Partner It is widely accepted that early intervention and rehabilitation to lead to better medical and vocational outcomes for accident victims. The UK does not appear to compare well with other industrialised countries. The ABI have...

  • Foreseeing Carelessness

    David Marshall, Partner, Anthony Gold The ‘six-pack’ regulations – the group of regulations that came into force in 1992 by which the UK carried into effect EU directives on health and safety at work - were supposed to be a seismic...

  • Killer Petals, Nose - Pokes and Other Hazards

    David Marshall, Partner In Piccolo v Larkstock Ltd (t/a Chiltern Flowers), Chiltern Railway Co Ltd and others [unreported, QBD HHJ Altman 17 July 2007] the claimant sought damages after slipping “ on a petal ” (as reported by the media) as he...

  • Local Authority Contributions to Care Costs

    David Marshall, Partner 1. Overview Care cost claims have rocketed over the past decade. The compensation awarded to claimants for this aspect of their personal injury claim has increased to reflect higher hourly rates (following the knock on effect of...

  • Guns for Hire

    David Marshall, Partner One of the key aims of Lord Woolf’s civil justice reforms was to get rid of the ‘hired gun’ expert culture. Before the CPR, in even the smallest claim both sides would instruct one or more medical experts who would...

  • The Compensation Bill 2005: A Desirable Activity?

    David Marshall, Partner The bulk of the Compensation Bill 2005 provides for the statutory regulation of claims management companies (‘CMCs’). After the conclusion of the Blackwell Committee in 2000 that they “did not consider that the...

  • Conditional Fee Agreements

    David Marshall, Partner   Many people believe that their lawyer should share the risk of their court cases with them rather than be paid win, lose or draw. However, public policy in England and Wales has long frowned on the ("American") idea...
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