Proving the Dream – Evidencing Claims for Future Loss of Earnings as a Professional Footballer

TVZ v Manchester City Football Club Ltd [2021] EWHC 1179 (QB) Swansea City AFC v Owen [2021] EWHC 1539 (QB) Introduction Two recent cases highlight contrasting approaches by claimants to proving the level of earnings they could have expected to receive as professional footballers, but a generous approach by the…

The Importance of Contemporaneous Medical Records

HXC (by her litigation friend) JXS vs Hind, Craze [2020] 10 WLUK 603 The facts On 8 June 2016, the then 24-year-old Claimant suffered a catastrophic subarachnoid haemorrhage arising from the rupture of a 10-11mm left internal carotid artery aneurysm. As a result of the haemorrhage she had a dense…

Non-Delegable Duty: Different Dentist, Same Drill

Around this time last year, Dominic Ruck Keene examined the County Court decision in Ramdhean v Agedo and The Forum Dental Practice Limited 2020 WL 00620352. HHJ Belcher concluded that a dental practice owed a non-delegable duty of care with respect to treatment carried out by a dentist working there.…