Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7428

Phillip Oldcorn looks west for PII inspiration

Keith Patten applauds the judiciary’s common-sense approach to evidence in personal injury claims

Picard v FIM Advisers LLP [2010] EWHC 1299 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 216 (Jul) Chancery Division, Companies Court Kitchin J 27 May 2010

R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] All ER (D) 200 (Jul)

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v PA Holdings Ltd [2010] All ER (D) 207 (Jul)

Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/Draft)

Health Act 2009 (Commencement No 4) Order 2010 (SI 2010/1863)

Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010
(SI 2010/1881)

A recent study from the Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC) drawing on 831 interviews of people at Leicester, Hull, Gateshead, Derby and Portsmouth community legal advice centres (CLACs) makes for an interesting read

The government is intent on creating a new “super agency” to tackle the perceived shortcomings of the current multi-agency system for investigating and prosecuting fraud and related commercial crime.