Blog — 15 January 2025

New personal injury discount rate comes into effect

I wrote about the personal injury discount rate (PIDR) way back in 2017 when the rate was changing from 2.5% to 0.75%. The personal injury discount rate supposedly ensures that…

Blog — 06 January 2025

Civil claims and the intermediate track – the double burden on lower earners and why being poor is expensive

The government recently introduced changes to the civil court system with a new ‘intermediate track’ for civil claims cases where damages are valued at between £25,000 to £100,000. This includes…

Blog — 13 December 2024

Emergency caesarean sections, birth injuries and the urgent need to improve UK maternity care

A new Care Quality Commision (CQC) report published in November 2024 looked at the experiences of pregnant women and new mothers in February 2024. The report, which suggests entrenched problems…

Blog — 06 December 2024

Overdue whistleblower protection proposed for NHS staff

In an effort to end the ‘culture of cover up’ in the NHS, ministers are proposing a new framework which will punish NHS managers who deter whistleblowers from coming forward…

Blog — 04 December 2024

Home Office to delay eVisa/UKVI account creation deadline (of 31 December 2024)

Having spent the last two years stressing the need to the Home Office that it must avoid a “cliff-edge” cut-off for the creation of a UKVI account of 31 December…

Blog — 13 November 2024

Digital divorce – for better or for worse

There has been a significant shift in how divorce is regarded, approached and even applied for in the last few years. We saw the seismic and much-campaigned for move to…