Labour Peer Lord Ahmed has been jailed for 12 weeks after pleading guilty in court to driving dangerously in the lead up to a fatal car accident in which his vehicle collided with another car on the M1 motorway, killing the other driver.  Lord Ahmed was found guilty of dangerous driving after mobile phone records revealed he had been sending and receiving text messages for several minutes before the crash… read more

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, APIL, along with support groups representing sufferers of asbestos related diseases, has called on the government to establish a compulsory national database of employers’ liability insurance policies.  The database is seen as the solution to the problem of tracing the relevant insurers when making a claim for industrial disease compensation.   Over the years, thousands of industrial disease sufferers have been unable to make a… read more

Although it took place on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, the case of a woman who was injured when her car was pushed off the road by a herd of stray cattle has, after 16 years, reached the Court of Appeal in London.  Whilst the case itself was fairly minor, it raised some interesting points that are just as relevant to accident victims in the UK as they are in… read more

If you’ve been considering making a personal injury claim, one of the terms you may have come across is ‘limitation’.  Limitation, or the limitation period is the length of time you have after an accident in which to begin legal action against the person or organisation responsible.  In personal injury claims, that period is usually 3 years from the date of your accident; however there are certain exceptions to that… read more

Surprising new statistics from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) have revealed just how widespread the problem of uninsured driving has become in the UK.  Around 3 percent of the county’s 580,000 motorists are thought to be driving without valid insurance.  Police in the area insist that by using new technologies an increasing number of these drivers are being caught, yet over 17,000 remain, even in a sparsely populated county like… read more

A report by the Chartered Institute of Physiotherapy revealed that over a quarter of pavement services in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester have serious defects that could pose a hazard to pedestrians.  Nationwide pavement inspections have revealed over a fifth of pavements and kerbs are in need of repairs.The findings of the study have drawn attention to the risks to pedestrians from slips, trips and falls in public… read more

Police in Northern Ireland have launched a new safety campaign aimed at reducing the number of people injured or killed in road traffic accidents where they have been travelling in the rear of vans.  The campaign is aimed both at private motorists and also employers who allow their employees or any passengers to travel on improvised seats or without seatbelts in any vehicle.Accompanying the campaign is a new leaflet highlighting… read more