GEORGE DAVID BLACK v DONCASTER & BASSETLAW HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (2009)
A claimant was entitled to costs on an indemnity basis under CPR r.36.14 following an award of damages for personal injury where he had made an offer to settle on the basis he would receive 95 per cent of the damages.
COSTS - COSTS
CC (Sheffield) (Judge Swanson) 20/4/2009
References: LTL 27/5/2010
Document No.: Case Law - AC0124608

AMANDA JULIE TELLING v OCS GROUP LTD (2008)
Where an employer had admitted liability for the death of an employee there had been an enforceable compromise of the appellant's claim as she had given valuable consideration in return for the admission of liability.
PERSONAL INJURY - HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK
CC (Sheffield) (Judge Bullimore) 7/4/2008
References: LTL 2/6/2008
Document No.: Case Law - AC0117224

JASMINE SPOWART v NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (2006)
A judge was entitled to conclude that the supervision of young school children playing on a slide had been negligent and had led to a child falling and sustaining an injury.
NEGLIGENCE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CC (Sheffield) (Judge Bullimore) 23/6/2006
References: LTL 11/9/2006
Document No.: Case Law - AC0111798

PAUL ANDREW FRANCE v JOSEPH MCVEIGH (2003)
The court refused the defendant insurer's application to place a cap on the claimant's base costs at an early stage in a routine road traffic accident case.
CIVIL PROCEDURE - COSTS - CPR - PERSONAL INJURY - ROAD TRAFFIC
CC (Doncaster) (District Judge Bower) 26/6/2003
References: LTL 22/10/2003
Document No.: Case Law - AC0105921

BENJAMIN BISHOP v UNIQUESECTOR TRADING LTD (T/A THE WOODWORKERS) (2000)
The judge interpreted the claimant's evidence too literally in rejecting his claim for damages for personal injuries on the issue of causation despite finding the defendant employer in breach of its duty under reg.5(1) Woodworking Machines Regulations 1974.
PERSONAL INJURY
CA (Simon Brown LJ, Mummery LJ) 30/6/2000
References: LTL 30/6/2000 EXTEMPORE
Document No.: Case Law - AC8400715

SHIRLEY KNIGHTON v ABINGTON BREWERY CO LTD (1998)
Although the brewery employer was found to have been in breach of its duty to provide a step-ladder the employee manager of a public house was contributorily negligent in taking the obvious risk of standing on a bar stool in order to hang Christmas decorations.
NEGLIGENCE
CA (May LJ, Sir Brian Neill) 21/1/98
References: LTL 22/1/98 EXTEMPORE
Document No.: Case Law - AC8400039