Personal Injury Update 2022- An Online Recorded Half Day Conference.

PERSONAL INJURY UPDATE: HOT TOPICS AND NEW TWISTS ON PERRENNIAL PROBLEMS 

This completely updated and revised annual online half day Personal Injury Update conference covers a range of topical and important subjects for lawyers and experts, ranging from the situation regarding secondary victims through to an Animals Act update and the role of expert evidence in PI cases (See below for more details about the topics covered). This is the ideal opportunity to keep up to date with the latest developments and new twists on some perennial problems.

Price: £145. Please note: this is a per organisation price 

Who will this appeal to?

The conference will appeal to solicitors, barristers, medical professionals, expert witnesses, NHS Trusts and Private Health Providers, insurers and associations, health and safety advisers, engineering experts, RTA specialists, accountants etc

Topicsmcovered

• Secondary victims
• Concussion in sport – a ticking time bomb?
• Duties of care in open spaces - occupiers liability in the great outdoors
• Animals Act case law update
• Psychiatric injury – update
• QOCS and costs update
• Experts in Personal Injury cases
• Fatal accident claims update

Speakers:

Ben Collins QC, Old Square Chambers

Richard Booth QC, 1 Crown Office Row

Georgina Crawford, Ropewalk Chambers

Robert Parkin, 1 Chancery Lane

Patrick Sadd. Outer Temple Chambers

Colm Nugent, Gatehouse Chambers

Helen Wolstenholme, 2 Temple Gardens

Speakers details:
Speakers details:
Ben Collins QC, Old Square Chambers 

Ben Collins QC has an exceptionally diverse practice, appearing in landmark litigation, and recognised as a leading silk, in no fewer than five fields of practice: employment, professional discipline, clinical negligence, personal injury and administrative and public law. In 2020 he was named Pro Bono QC of the Year at the Bar Pro Bono Awards, and was shortlisted at The Lawyer Awards as Barrister of the Year. He is regularly instructed by both claimants and defendants in complex and high-value clinical negligence and personal injury claims. He has enormous experience in addressing medical issues and an in-depth understanding of the work of clinical professionals, as well as in meeting the needs of severely disabled claimants and their families.

Richard Booth QC, 1 Crown Office Row

Richard Booth QC specialises in clinical negligence, disciplinary / regulatory law, personal injury (especially brain and sports injuries), costs, inquests and sports law. Richard is recognised as a ‘Leading Silk’ in Clinical Negligence and Professional Discipline by Chambers & Partners and was nominated for their 2018 ‘Professional Discipline Silk of the Year’ Award. Richard is instructed predominantly on behalf of claimants in this field, but has also had a niche practice defending a well-known chain of fitness clubs. He is particularly expert in claims involving brain injury, from the maximally damaged to the subtle presentations. In the sporting context, Richard has been involved in many serious injury claims over the years involving incidents on the field of play, where the defendants have been both opponents and referees.

Patrick Sadd, Outer Temple Chambers

Patrick Sadd acts for both claimants and defendants in clinical negligence and personal injury claims. He is instructed in sensitive cases involving still-birth and neo-natal deaths, as well as in inquests including those arising out of clinical treatment and psychiatric care. In his long-standing personal injury practice he specialises in catastrophic injury as well as acting for bereaved families in fatal accident claims. His experience extends to medical device litigation and group actions including the Leicester Epilepsy claims, Trilucent Breast implant, PIP litigation and De Puy litigation.

Robert Parkin, 1 Chancery Lane

Robert Parkin has a thriving personal injury practice and regularly appears in a wide range of claims from the very straightforward to the very complex, including involvement in a million-pound claim for damages arising from brain injuries. He also accepts instructions for damages arising from medical negligence. Robert welcomes instructions for preparation of advice on quantum, whether for the purposes of valuation for issue, potential settlement, or pending infant approval actions. Robert has held a number of roles in the legal sector, having previously been a paralegal advocate, solicitor, a solicitor-advocate. He brings this range of expertise to the bar and uses it to find innovative solutions to common problems- having often faced similar problems himself at one time in practice. Robert has also developed a public profile as an expert commentator and is a regular TV news expert guest commentating on legal issues

Georgina Crawford. Ropewalk Chambers

Georgina Crawford is ranked as a leading junior in the field of personal injury. She is typically instructed in catastrophic and other high-value claims in the High Court and multi-track matters in the County Court. Her particular expertise is in Animals Act claims. Her practice also routinely includes disease work, inquests, clinical negligence, road traffic accidents and the full raft of public and employer’s liability claims. Her practice is both Claimant and Defendant. Recent catastrophic injury cases include life-changing injuries to the hand pleaded at around £2 million with permanent 50% disability, and a pedestrian knocked down by a van, sustaining the most severe crush fractures and degloving injuries which almost led to amputation. Other recent cases include multiple spinal fractures in an industrial accident, and multiple spinal and pelvic fractures with head injuries and brain damage in an agricultural crushing accident.

Colm Nugent, Hardwicke

Colm is a specialist barrister in the fields of personal injury and related insurance issues. Colm acts for both Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of injury and related disputes with a particular focus on lower limb injuries, subtle brain injury (especially those leading to an increased risk of dementia), complex loss of earnings claims, hand injuries and long-term loss claims as well as fatalities. He is an acknowledged specialist in claims concerning the application of the Defective Premises Act, which has taken him to the Court of Appeal this year. He is sought after by insurers for cases where fraud and exaggeration are suspected and has had success at striking out a number of such claims. Colm lectures regularly on the CPR, litigation tactics, defending fraud claims, bringing complex loss claims and issues arising from disability and interpretation of the Ogden reduction factors. Colm is also an accredited ADR Group Mediator. Colm regularly speaks at training events, seminars, and webinars 

Helen Wolstenholme, 2 Temple Gardens

Helen Wolstenholme specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and travel law. She has a broad personal injury practice covering catastrophic injury; employer’s liability (including industrial disease and psychiatric injury); occupiers’ liability and defective premises; accidents abroad; RTAs (including claims involving allegations of fraud); and the Animals Act. She excels when analysing complex issues and provides well-structured and succinct advice which recognises the commercial realities of civil litigation. She has a particular interest in cases involving psychiatric injury or thorny questions of causation and has published articles in the New Law Journal and the Solicitors Journal.

About The Legal Training Consultancy

The Legal Training Consultancy is a full-service training consultancy with a large portfolio of in-house courses and trainers. You can find out more here: www.legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk. We have individually been responsible for putting together a vast number of law  related conferences, webinars, seminars, videos and e-learning modules from 1987 onwards. Altogether more than 2000. We hold an annual Personal Injury Law Update and a twice yearly Clinical Negligence Conference.

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** a group of experts means any group of experts, whether comprising work colleagues either with the same area of expertise or working for the same organisation, such as an NHS Trust or Private Hospital Group, or put together for the purposes of this conference. It excludes lawyers in private practice (who should book under one of the other categories)