Covert surveillance: check your grounds
BackgroundKim Shaw was an English teacher employed by Pontllanfraith Comprehensive School. She was alleged to have made ‘vexatious’ complaints about her colleagues after similarities were discovered...
View ArticleSurveillance evidence guidance for costs budgets & Part 36 costs consequences
BackgroundThe claimant brought a claim for personal injury and losses following a road traffic accident. Liability was admitted and expert evidence was prepared. The defendant’s insurers decided to...
View ArticleFresh High Court guidance on surveillance practice and procedure
BackgroundThe circumstances of case were that the claimant’s claim for damages arising out of a work place injury was pleaded at around £850,000. Surveillance evidence was obtained in February and...
View ArticleAdmissibility of surveillance evidence
BackgroundThe claimant was a pillion passenger who sustained multiple injuries including fractures of her spine on 19 May 2011. She was aged 29 at the date of the accident and 34 at the...
View ArticleSurveillance footage: Good days and bad days
BackgroundOn 17 March 2012 the claimant was working for the defendant dry lining a loft when the floor collapsed and he fell through to the floor below, fracturing his pelvis. The claimant underwent a...
View ArticleAmbushed! Late disclosure of surveillance evidence
BackgroundIn March 2017 His Honour Judge Reddihough heard the defendant's application for permission to rely on surveillance evidence and accompanying witness statements.The claim arose out of a road...
View ArticlePerseverance in chronic pain case results in significant savings
Background and investigationsThe claimant broke his ankle after slipping on ice in January 2013. Liability was not in issue and the defendant's insurers quickly agreed to deal with the claimant's...
View ArticleCovert recordings: reprehensible but relevant and probative
FactsThis claim arises out of a road traffic accident which occurred on 21 January 2014 when the defendant collided with the rear of the claimant's vehicle. Liability had been admitted but there was a...
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