Malcolm Johnson
- Feature
Personal injury: Foster carers and vicarious liability
Supreme Court reverses decision of the Court of Appeal, deciding that a local authority could be vicariously liable for torts committed by foster carers against children in local authority care.
- Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: Growing like Topsy
Kerry… on Personal Injury Small Claims, Portals and Fixed Costs
- Feature
Child protection in football – lessons still to be learned
The emerging revelations about sex abuse in football suggest mistakes were made. How can we ensure they are not repeated?
- Feature
RTA victims injured abroad
Claiming damages from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau following an accident abroad.
- Feature
Criminal injuries compensation
The courts have tackled the issue of compensation for criminal injuries inflicted before birth.
- Feature
Negligence claim over Raoul Moat shooting
The claimants said that Northumbria Police owed PC David Rathband a duty of care to warn him of the threats made by killer Raoul Moat.
- Feature
PI: non-delegable duty of care
The Court of Appeal dealt with the issue of vicarious liability after the foster child claimant suffered abuse.
- Feature
Did MoD owe marine duty of care?
Diving injuries – duties owed to military personnel outside their ‘employment’
- Feature
RTA liability and EU directives
Seriously injured man brings action against insurer but cannabis was found in car involved in accident.
- Feature
Personal injury: duty of care
Non-delegable duty of care for local authorities in foster care – a tale of two judgments.