25th May 2018 Happy GDPR Day! And yes, that means we too have updated our privacy policy. You can read it here. Welcome to the latest weekly news summary from Law Brief Publishing. You have received this newsletter at newsletter@newslettercollector.com, because you are signed-up to our newsletters via lawbriefpublishjing.com, www.lawbriefupdate.com or www.pibriefupdate.com. Scroll to the end for contact, unsubscribe info etc. This week we have another excellent free article from the PI Brief Update Law Journal, as well as the usual selection of personal injury and general law news, blogs, and humour. Personal Injury News & Free Articles FREE BOOK CHAPTER from ‘A Practical Guide to Financial Ombudsman Service Claims’ by Adam Temple and Robert Scrivener... FREE article from PIBULJ.COM Top QC calls for motor insurers to cover rehab following no-blame accidents... Litigation Futures 'Victory for product innovation' as High Court rejects group hip implant claim... PI Brief Update News Uber self-driving car saw pedestrian but decided not to brake... New Scientist High Court says defendant must pay credit hire costs even where claimant has contingent liability for them... Litigation Futures Website aims to help cyclists pursue personal injury claims without lawyers... Legal Futures General Law News & Blogs US news sites blocking EU users due to GDPR... The Guardian Appeal throws out two claims where same judge was 'too benevolent'... Law Society Gazette Bank of England governor says Brexit has cost every UK household £900 per year in income... BBC News Most GDPR emails are unnecessary or illegal... The Guardian GDPR enforcement - what we can expect... Out-Law Samsung fined (yet again) for copying iPhone... 9to5mac PIBULJ.COM Articles A selection of recent and popular articles from PIBULJ.COM. Note that an account is required to read the full articles. If you haven't subscribed yet, why not try it out for one month for just £1? Click here for more info. FREE BOOK CHAPTER: Introduction to the Jackson Report 2017 and CMC Regulation: A Summary of the Changes A free online chapter from 'A Practical Guide to the 2018 Jackson Personal Injury and Costs Reforms' by Andrew Mckie. 2018/2019 is going to be a huge year for the Personal Injury world (yet again)! Changes are aloft in all different areas of Regulation. A ban on cold calling for claims companies, the movement of claims management companies towards FCA Regulation and more fixed costs for personal injury claims. This book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to take practitioners through all the changes in a clear and easily digestible way...
| | Countdown to GDPR - Aidan Ellis, Temple Garden Chambers There is no doubting the hot topic this Spring. In all of my last visits to Court, the conversation in the robing room has turned at some stage to issues surrounding compliance with the GDPR. Nor is the concern limited to lawyers...
| | Can a claim be made for becoming sensitised to an industrial chemical despite being asymptomatic? - Simon Anderson, Park Square Barristers, Leeds Can a claimant found a claim for personal injury for having been sensitised to an industrial chemical through exposure to it, despite being asymptomatic? Yes, according the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court (Lady Black giving the sole judgment) in Dryden and others v Johnson Matthey Plc [2018] UKSC 18...
| | Claims Management Companies, Consent to Marketing & FCA Regulation - Paul Bennett, Aaron & Partners LLP In early 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority will take over from the Claims Management Regulator in terms of the supervision of Claims Management Companies (CMC’s) authorised under the Compensation Act 2006 in relation to the common areas of personal injury, financial products and services, employment, criminal injuries compensation, industrial injuries and housing disrepair claims...
| | FREE BOOK CHAPTER: An Introduction to Housing Disrepair and Cavity Wall Claims (from 'A Practical Guide to Running Housing Disrepair and Cavity Wall Claims, 2nd Edition' by Andrew Mckie & Ian Skeate) The Small Claims Track change for personal injury cases is likely to come into effect in October 2019. This book looks at other areas personal injury practitioners have begun to focus in, including housing disrepair and cavity wall claims, which may not be subject to fixed costs / small claims track costs.
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PIBULJ.TV - masterclasses from the experts Episode 3: 'Limitation Masterclass: A Practical Overview' by Andrew Roy Andrew Roy from 12 King's Bench Walk presents a practical guide to limitation law for personal injury practitioners. Includes: date of knowledge, suspending time, bringing/issuing proceedings, service, section 33, addition and substitution, procedure, special cases. Click here to watch a sample for free! Queen's Counsel This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen's Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus. BabyBarista - Objectifying Life Sometimes legal practise seems like a never-ending round of technical points. Nit-picking at the margins to bring a little more injustice to the world. It's no wonder some lawyers get depressed. It's as if they live in the shadow of the real world. Looking at it through their own peculiar prism and seeing only a watered down reflection of reality. Breaking it down into neat and tidy little issues. Objectifying life. Sucking the poetry from our souls and leaving a world in which everything is boiled down to some cynical legal platitude.... Click here to continue reading... You are receiving this message at newsletter@newslettercollector.com because are signed up to newsletters from Law Brief Publishing. If you'd prefer not to receive future editions of this particular newsletter then just click here to unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from all newsletters or to edit your preferences please click here. This bulletin is free of charge and is funded in part by third-party advertisements. The publisher and editorial team make no representations about the products or services offered by any advertisers. Please note that your email address is held and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have received this email in error or do not wish to receive any future emails then please click the link above to unsubscribe, and do contact us if you have any questions at all. This email and any attachments have been scanned for viruses, but it is the responsibility of the recipient to conduct their own security measures and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for loss or damage arising from the receipt or use of this email. Note also that this newsletter does not constitute advice for the purposes of any individual case, and it cannot be a substitute for specific advice based on the circumstances of any such case. Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation of this document, the authors cannot accept any liability for any loss or damage, whether caused by negligence or otherwise, to any person using this document. This newsletter is published by Law Brief Publishing Limited, 30 The Parks, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 8BT.
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