There was one new case on limitation, in a HAVS/CTS matter, but the result is not unsurprising
more generally on limitation is the case of Cain v Francis, which will be of particular assistance where there has been an admission prior to issue but issue was after limitation had expired. The two cases in Cain were RTA matters, but well worth reading.
thanks to all who came.
thanks to all the speakers.
St james park does good food….
the first time we’ve every laughed our socks off at a symposium - a mock trial that entertained ANd educated - i always think barristers would be actors in another life…
now the hard work of putting the book together starts….
before the symposium was last night, we’re really happy with the way it’s going and found that virtually everything was done that could be done.
we think it’s the best organised/catered so far, hope you all agree.
we ended up having interesting debates about medical stuff and i said, this is what the forum is for, go use it! some of the organising team haven’t signed into the forum yet, but i hope everyone does soon!
i have at last been able to persuade the forum to show icons such that people can post topics etc - that’s only taken me a month to work out what was going wrong!
any peole intending to book fo rthe symposium last minute should try and make this week their “last minute” as St James wants us to finalise numbers, for catering purposes, and of course we know some of you will be deciding nearer the day whether to come or not…
as we have already been spammed, I have had to set this so that only those registered and logged in can comment, which is a shame. Hopefully I will be able to change that in due course
we’re very pleased with the interest in the Symposium this year and look forward to meeting you all - many haven’t attended previous symposia, so we hope you enjoy it!
3 weeks on Friday, so if you haven’t booked already, please do so now to be assured of a place….
Bookings are coming in for the symposium, so thank you to all for that.
I think the main point of a blog is to consider new matters, and thus generate comment on them. so, for example, I use my personal blog (if anyone’s interested in horses!) to talk about good and bad things that are happening that day with my horse, with occasional diversions into the news or a holiday.
So I see this blog as to reflect anything new that is happening legally, medically or in the engineering field in relation to vibration & HAVS.
given that it is still august, there’s nothing new legally to blog about (unless someone knows different??). there was a recent limitation case (Field v British Coal), but on NIHL rather than HAVS; however, I have no doubt that analogies will be made in future HAVS cases - can a man who has symptoms which he thinks (with reason, as Mr Field had reason) are caused by something other than vibration, be said to have had knowledge at the time he got his symptoms, rather than at the later date when he found out the actual cause?
the earlier limitation case of Furniss v Firth Brown (also NIHL) is also interesting on “significant injury”, and it will be interesting to see how the debate develops in HAVS matters - at what point will an injury be thought to be significant in THIS context
a search in Bailii today confirmed my recollection that the last two HAVS cases to trouble the Court of Appeal were Norton v Corus and Kew v Bettamix, reported, respectively, on the 13th & 14th November 2006.
It will be interesting to see what happens next…
Claire Hodgson
We have our first booking, thank you that man!
on the main site took me forever yesterday - i accidentally deleted all my work once, and then managed to get myself logged out ….
We sent out marketing emails to all and sundry (sorry for clogging your inboxes) yesterday and have already had people confirming that they will be attending! and one chap replied from his holidays in France (i thought i was the only saddo who checked emails whilst in France, clearly not … m excuse was i wanted to maintain my blog, and I’m sticking to it)
It’s always a shade scary when you’ve put everything in place but don’t know until bookings come in whether anyone/enough people will come! but we’re sure you all will.
We know there’s no link back to the main page or to the forum from here (or from the forum to here & back to the main page) but that will be sorted during today, we hope
I think until the symposium has happened, this will be a record of how we’re doing in getting it together….
edited to add - there now is a link, look down the right hand side under “websites” and there it is….i’ll add to those in due course. BTB, if anyone thinks any particular site/blog should be linked to, do let me know…
I rashly volunteered to blog this, as I have my own blog - so far, all i’ve got to blog about is setting up the site & the blog.
At this moment in time, everything is still under construction, so there’s no links back to the main site yet, but there will be.
I think we envison this as somewhere for people to post things currently happening and of interest, where the Forum will be for general discussion of issues.
hope to see you all at the symposium
Claire Hodgson