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‘Cold calling must be banned’, lawyers’ groups warned this week A complete ban on cold calling for personal injury claims is essential to protect consumers and prevent unscrupulous operators from finding a way around existing rules, solicitors warned today. Responding to the news the Telephone...

  The Claimant ‘E’, aged 35 at the time of the accident, was injured after falling from a horse. E had attended 40-50 riding lessons over a 2 year period but was a still novice rider with little riding confidence. E had never been taught how to gallop. E and her friend had booked on [&helli...

This is one subject that I can honestly say makes me feel very angry. I drive on our roads everyday and have done for many years now. Each time I do, I see at least one driver using a mobile phone whilst behind the wheel. Over the years, this practice has increased dramatically, probably due to [&h...

  The NHS Litigation Authority has warned that future negligence claims against the health service will total more than £50bn. The NHS received 5,419 claims in 2006-7, rising to 10,965 in 2015-16. During the past decade, the NHS has paid out more than £6bn in negligence claims, and in the past fi...

A teenager who broke her back in a horse riding fall has won a £3m legal battle against her ex-boyfriend’s family. Ashleigh Harris, who was 14 at the time of the incident, had been encouraged by her then boyfriend’s family to ride the ex-racehorse when she fell off, leaving her paralyse...

Our last free talk of 2016 will be at 11am on Tuesday 15th Novemberber in Orpington Library. Through these talks over the past five years, we have been able to help hundreds of people by providing essential free advice on subjects that everyone should be aware of. In our next talk we will be dis...

New awareness campaign released to target uninsured drivers Uninsured and ‘hit and run’ drivers take a life every three days A new video released today, ‘Protection’, aims to improve public awareness that car insurance is a legal requirement. This is the second video released by MIB (Motor I...

A father of three who tried to claim £15,000 for a personal injury has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for fabricating his road traffic accident claim. The High Court heard Bernard Parmar made or caused to be made six separate false statements of truth following the collision between a Jaguar...

An undercover investigation by consumer organisation Which? has thrown the spotlight on motor insurers which increase driver premiums after minor collisions, even though policy holders are blameless. Commenting on findings that the insurance industry reneged on a promise to reduce premiums after the...

Learner drivers will have to prove they can follow directions on a sat-nav and reverse out of a parking space after government changes to the driving test. The changes are the biggest since the theory test was introduced in 1996 and will be introduced next year as an attempt by the government to imp...