DAMAGES FOR CARE: RECENT CASES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR PRACTITIONERS: WEBINAR 8th FEBRUARY 2024
This webinar look at claims for care, the law underpinning care and assistance claims, looking at practical ways of preparing the case and presenting the schedule and cover. The webinar covers, in particular, the cases and observations made in recent cases including Scarcliffe -v- Bramton Valley Group Ltd [2023] EWHC 1565 (KB), Muyepa v Ministry of Defence [2022] EWHC 2648 (KB) and CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 1770 (KB).
Booking details are available here.
“There is a danger that because comparatively few personal injury/clinical negligence cases reach a hearing where the issues of care/aids and equipment are contested, and as a result few reminders are given by the Courts of the correct approach to be adopted, that some reports will fail to approach the analysis of what should be claimed/funded with sufficient rigour”
( Mr Justice Cotter in Muyepa v Ministry of Defence [2022] EWHC 2648 (KB).)
MATTERS TO BE COVERED
- Medical and hospital expenses – does a claimant have to use the NHS?
- What is “care”?
- Quantifying care without the help of an expert
- Care in minor and non-severe cases
- Claims for household assistance – does the law treat them differently?
- Can a claim be made for inability to act as a carer?
- The role of the expert – key points to watch out for
- Care claims in the schedule.