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Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition reports on a matter relating to the use of driven inspections in the context of defending Highways Act claims, together with various case updates.

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition reports care homes, rugs and risk assessments together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a matter where we were successful in securing a discontinuance in relation to a claim involving an alleged highway defect, together with various case updates.

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition reports on a matter where proceedings were issued against the wrong defendant through mistaken identity, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on factual causation and other issues in highway tripping matters, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on a Defendant Authority’s duty when Algae is on the highway, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the COA where a Defendant Local Authority was responsible for residual diminution in value of the Claimant’s land following treatment of Japanese knotweed, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on Highways matters and the Small Claims Track, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a case which resulted in a finding of fundamental dishonesty on the basis of inconsistent medical entries, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on the call for evidence launched by the Ministry of Justice in relation to the second review of the Personal Injury Discount Rate, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a successful defence to a claim involving a cyclist, focuses on the new guideline hourly rates, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on a successful defence of a Highways Act claim relating to a kerb upstand involving measurement controversy and dangerousness, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a successful defence involving a loose manhole cover, which gave rise to the review of the Defendant Local Authority’s adequacy of a reactive system and its duty under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on successful defence of a significant personal injury claim with fundamental dishonesty findings and displacement of Qualified One Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a case where a Claimant suffered an injury in the workplace, together with various case updates.

Download the latest National Risk Register, an external version of the National Security Risk Assessment, which is the Government's assessment of the most serious risks facing the UK. 

This edition reports on the Three-Stage Test to be applied by the Court when considering a Waster Costs Order, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on a retail park carpark incident which involved arguments as to public rights of way, together with various case updates.

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition reports on the issues to be considered relating to a Costs Order made in a Small Claims Track matter, together with various case updates.

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

In a two-part series, James McDowell from Aon puts questions to Emma Goltz, Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society, Board Member of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and avid collector. In part one, Emma talks about her love of art, building her own sculpture collection, the first art she bought and who has influenced her collecting.

In a two-part series, James McDowell from Aon puts questions to Emma Goltz, Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society, Board Member of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and avid collector. In part two, Emma offers more advice on building a collection; how she likes to meet the artists behind the works she buys, and the importance of a ‘giant spreadsheet’ when it comes to keeping your collection safe.

This edition reports on a claim for damages arising out of a work place accident, bad character evidence in regulatory prosecutions, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on claimant's conduct; changes to the Personal Injury Damages Claim Portal; case updates on abuse - contribution from carers, abuse of process, breach of confidence and Part 36 offers.

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This edition reports on the importance of good quality contemporaneous evidence and the effective presentation of the same to the Court, amendments to QOCS, together with various case updates.

In this whitepaper Zurich focuses on people and the social element of the ESG approach. They look at the importance of action and behavioural change, through our workforce and community, to meet the needs of and to sustain the future.

This edition reports on the impact that apparatus, which is owned by a third-party utility company, has on a defence under Section 58 of the Highways Act 1980, together with various case updates.

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This edition reports on the impact of an investigation by a Department of Transport specialist investigation body on the Coroner’s inquest process, together with various case updates including foreseeability of psychiatric harm.

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This edition reports on the operation of the Definitive Sentencing Guideline in a public sector and emergency service sentencing for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on foreseeability issues when dealing with accidents in school playgrounds, together with various case updates including a retrospective application for an extension when a claim form was misplaced by the Court.

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In this whitepaper Zurich introduce some key principles and report on the experiences of customer and partner organisations. They focus on why sustainability is so important in building and maintaining progressive and resilient communities.

This edition reports on a claim for damages which involved historical grade two listed structures on local authority land, together with various case updates including fundamental dishonesty and refusal to mediate.

This edition features a round-up of the latest industry news and views, a winner's review of the 2022 National Insurance Awards and Editor Deborah Ritchie speaks to Geoff Trickey about risk types.

This edition reports on the Claimant’s burden of proof in highways claims in proving that an accident occurred as alleged or that a particular defect had caused the alleged accident, together with various case updates.

This edition reports on an inquest case which involved issues of diagnoses and causation of death in the context of alleged asbestosis with concurrent COVID-19 lung fibrosis, and a discussion on the bold judicial review of the Compensation Recovery Unit scheme in the context of long tail claims.

This edition reports on the successful defence on a matter concerning highway kerb lines and Section 41 dangerousness, and an analysis of the Health and Safety Executive's annual statistics for 2020-21.

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition reports on the assistance of historical land documents when dealing with defects bordering different owners' land, and further developments in the case law around social services failure to remove claims.

This edition reports on the successful defence against a claim for personal injury in an employers' liability case in the context of agency workers and the use of unauthorised equipment.

Decisions you make, whether as a director or an officer of a business, can resurface months or even years later in the shape of a personal claim against you. D&O insurance can help protect your personal assets in the event of legal action. Gallagher explains what it is and why it is so important.

This bulletin is intended to provide you with an update to the position of Municipal Mutual Insurance following the recent publication of their accounts as at 30 June 2021, as well as recommendations to ensure that you can cover your self-insured liabilities.

Gallagher understand that study abroad, staff and student travel, and global mobility is a key risk topic.

This edition reports on the successful defence against a claim for personal injury where the Claimant's reliance and/or lack of reliance upon his Sat Nav clearly contributed to the alleged accident. 

Download the latest issue of Scottish Local Authority News and keep up-to-date with the latest news from Scotland's local councils.

This edition examines the recovery of costs in a case where the Court found the Claimant had been fundamentally dishonest, and case summaries relating to occupiers' liability and vicarious liability in sexual abuse claims.

The aim of this newsletter is to provide an overview of any threats, or issues, that we feel could have a business continuity impact on forces. There is no particular theme to this issue, but perhaps not surprisingly risks faced from cyber-crime again feature, as does COVID-19, flu and climate change.

The aim of this newsletter is to provide an overview of any threats, or issues, that we feel could have a business continuity impact on forces. There is no particular theme to this issue, but perhaps not surprisingly risks faced from cyber-crime again feature, as does COVID-19 and flu.