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Claimants: smile for the camera; costs risks of will challenge; bye bye holiday lets; costs schedules unappealing.

A landmark ruling has reshaped child clinical negligence claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Jodi Newton, head of birth and paediatric negligence at Osbornes Law, explains how the Supreme Court in CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] UKSC 5 has overturned Croke v Wiseman, ending the long-standing bar on children recovering ‘lost years’ earnings

The Supreme Court has transformed the law for child personal injury claimants: Jodi Newton sets out the implications for practitioners

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John Mayberry & Affifa Farrukh on the sweeping statutory powers of the Health Services Safety Investigation Body

The NHS’s safety watchdog may itself need watching. Writing in NLJ this week, John F Mayberry, criminal barrister at 2DRJ, and Affifa Farrukh, consultant physician, examine the sweeping powers granted to the Health Services Safety Investigation Body under the Health and Care Act 2022

Children can claim for ‘lost years’ damages in personal injury cases, the Supreme Court has held in a landmark judgment

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged the government to move towards a less adversarial system of clinical negligence, after the total cost to the NHS quadrupled within 20 years to an eye-watering £60bn

The NHS may be paying twice in clinical negligence claims as damages are calculated based on private healthcare packages but patients may go on to use the NHS for treatment, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report last week

Sarah Moore & Harry Wilkinson shed light on the underutilised ‘black box’ of product liability claims

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NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

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Decision on divorce & domicile

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

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Guarding courts from the hazards of AI

The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole

Reforms to inquest fees under consultation

Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work

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Clinical negligence

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

DWF—Chris Air