Conduct: Hoisted by their own petard?

Crown Office Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | December 2017/January 2018 #161
In the first of two articles, Suzanne Chalmers and Jack Macaulay explore the current law relating to claimants’ illegality and dishonesty ‘The essential rationale of the doctrine of illegality was that it would be contrary to the public interest to enforce a claim if to do so would be harmful to the integrity of the …

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Case Report: Scott v Gavigan [2016] EWCA Civ 544

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2016 #149
Road traffic accident; foreseeability; breach of duty; Highway Code ‘The issue for the Court of Appeal was whether the recorder was wrong to find the claimant wholly to blame for the accident.’Valley Road in Streatham is long and straight, largely residential in character albeit with some commercial premises on it, and it bears a speed …

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