Road traffic

Articles

12 Jan 2012

Government should consider whiplash laws, MPs say

MPs on the transport select committee said today that the government should consider bringing in laws to restrict whiplash claims if the Jackson reforms failed to reduce them.

9 Jan 2012

Road traffic update

Contempt of court proceedings are increasingly used by stakeholders in the insurance sector as a weapon in the war against fraud, says Roger Cooper

3 Oct 2011

SRA apologises for mySRA 'teething problems'

Regulator to update solicitors later this month

3 Oct 2011

Update: road traffic

Roger Cooper reports on the growing concerns over the rise in costs in motor insurance claims

3 Oct 2011

Playing the part

The Court of Appeal has restored some sanity to the issue of part 36 offers in detailed assessment proceedings, says Simon Gibbs

3 Oct 2011

In their pocket

The latest government attacks on personal injury claimants are based on a distorted view of the market, says David Ellis

29 Sept 2011

Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

19 Sept 2011

Motor insurance bill targets 'grubby industry'

Lawyers unconvinced by rationale behind proposal