Uren v Corporate Leisure (UK) Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 66

Expert Evidence: He who pays the piper…

William Waldron QC highlights some of the mistakes experts make in court and the importance of impartiality ‘My own view is that things are better than before but there are still too many instances of poor experts and inappropriate behaviour.’Recently, I sat as a recorder in the County Court on a tolerably complex, hotly-disputed, six-day …

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Case Report: Andrew Risk v Rose Bruford College [2013] EWHC 3869 (QB)

Duty of care; assumption of responsibility; causation ‘If the risk of injury is so slight and remote that it is hardly likely ever to materialise, it may well be that it is not reasonable to expect the occupier to take any steps to protect anyone against it’. Did the defendant college owe a 21-year-old student …

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Statutory Reform: Back to the future

Jason Cox reports on s69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 ‘So far as it is possible to ascertain the government’s thinking behind s69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, it appears to be part of an attempt to dismantle the so-called “compensation culture’”. More than 20 years after the introduction …

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Employers: All work and no play

Chris Gutteridge considers the liability of employers for out-of-office activities Neither partner who had responsibility for organising the event had the necessary skills and knowledge to make a satisfactory risk assessment and so they overlooked the most obvious risk – collision. The rise in popularity of the concept of ‘team-building’ and the quest for a …

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