Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury: Winter Newsflash

• Published date: 23 December 2022
• Subject Matter: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence
• Law Firm: Gatehouse Chambers
• Author: Mr Peter Foad, Natasha Devlin-Clingham and Bryan Frimpong

Introduction

Gatehouse Chambers' Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team are pleased to update you with a Winter newsflash.

As the festive season is upon us, you will no doubt have limited time in which to read our usual bumper newsletter. Instead, we've collated some quick highlights.

Following on from Jasmine's update in the last newsletter on the increase in the special account interest rates, here's the latest on interest rates which have been increasing almost as rapidly as your gas bill:

29 April 2022: 0.645%

5 July 2022: 1.25%

2 September 2022: 1.75%

25 October 2022: 2.25%

18 November 2022: 3%

Rates are likely to keep rising in January, so keep an eye out for our next update!

If you are after some cosy fireside reading, Dr Rob Whittock has written a comprehensive article (intriguingly titled "Bad Apples") about the Solicitors Compensation Fund; you can check it out here.

This legal term we had the pleasure of hosting a mock trial at "Gatehouse County Court" for Moore Barlow. The aim of the mock trial was to provide training, and to cover the common (preventable) pitfalls that can arise at trial. We are excited to provide further training in 2023.

It has been very busy in the team over the past few weeks. I asked the team to pick out some of their highlights, which you can find in the Activity Report below.

Until next time, the team wish you good cheer, and a Happy New Year!

Charlotte Wilk - Editor

Activity report

Charles Bagot KC:

• Charles has been instructed in several new complex and high value brain injury cases for both Claimants and Defendants on which he is working with various members of the team.
• He is working on the preparatory stages of the secondary victim appeals of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS (and two other conjoined appeals), provisionally listed before the Supreme Court in May 2023.
• Charles headed to Miami for the International Bar Association conference at the start of November and met with international clients in the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas.
• Upheld on a first appeal and then overturned on a second appeal to the Court of Appeal, in the 'failure to remove' child abuse decision he made as a Deputy Master in YXA v Surrey County Council [2022] EWCA Civ 1196. It is understood that an application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court has been made.
• Charles has been spending time as PI Bar Association Chair negotiating with the MoJ about fixed recoverable costs and contributing to consultation responses on fixed...