Lonsdale & ors v Wedlake Bell LLP & ors [2024] WTLR 1007

Autumn 2024 #196

The first claimant brought a claim in his individual capacity as settlor and trustee for professional negligence against the solicitors he had instructed in relation to a settlement made in 1987, which created a discretionary trust (the trust) in favour of a number of beneficiaries including the first claimant’s children. The first claimant intended to benefit his own children (the children) with his nieces/nephews as backstop beneficiaries should the trust in favour of the children fail. However the terms of the trust, which gave the beneficiaries the right to income when they attained ...

JXM v An NHS Trust [2020] WTLR 1327

Winter 2020 #181

The claimant, who was born in 2013, was subject to a criminal assault by his father such that he needed to attend the defendant’s hospital which, unfortunately, failed to identify non-accidental injuries and discharged him home to the ‘care’ of his parents. A subsequent assault by his father caused devastating brain damage and resulted in a custodial sentence. The defendant admitted liability for the injuries sustained by the claimant through its breach of duty in failing to detect non-accidental injuries and then arranging for investigations to be carried out which would have enabled hi...