Lexsure Solicitors

31/05/2022

Holly White a 29-year-old woman who knowingly exaggerated the extent of injuries suffered as a result of alleged NHS negligence has been jailed for six months for contempt of court. The contempt action was brought by NHS Resolution on behalf of North Bristol NHS Trust after it investigated a claim brought by White for more than £4m. The claim was struck out in 2019 after video surveillance showed that while White claimed to have mobility issues, she walked normally without assistance. Her claim that she could not drive for long periods without suffering pain and discomfort was disproved by evidence showing that she drove for 40 miles without stopping, and on another occasion drove for 18 miles to attend a party.

Judge says that suspended sentence would not send the message that defrauding the NHS is utterly unacceptable.

31/05/2022

The lord chief justice has reiterated the need for the lord chancellor to ‘rein in their colleagues who occasionally say things which sit uneasily with the rule of law or judicial independence’.

Lord Burnett said the lord chancellor must ‘bring to the cabinet table not only their political experience and judgment’ as justice secretary, but also ‘their enhanced duty with respect to the rule of law and judicial independence’.

He noted that the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 was ‘the first time in our history that the constitutional principle of judicial independence was explicitly referred to in statute’, but said the obligations it imposed on the lord chancellor simply reflected constitutional convention.

Lord Burnett says lord chancellor 'must be ready to deploy their authority and say "no"'.

14/04/2022

A barrister who was disbarred after she was convicted of failing to disclose a change in her financial circumstances relating to council tax benefits and then lied to an appellate court has failed with a bid to return to the profession.

Sky Bibi, 40, failed to disclose conviction to firm of solicitors that employed her.

14/04/2022

There would inevitably be an increase in the number of claims if the need to prove negligence is removed and compensation payments would need to be much lower to make the system affordable. This means that patients injured as a result of negligence will not receive full compensation.

APIL head speaks out on eve of major new report into clinical negligence litigation costs.

14/04/2022

David Wolfson QC tells PM he can no longer serve in his government.

30/03/2022

Around 7,000 families will have benefited from £500 vouchers designed to resolve disputes away from court.

28/03/2022

Former King Juan Carlos I faces High Court harassment claim from his former lover.

23/03/2022

Regulator cites 'legal obligation to ensure that all information... is up to date and accurate'.

16/03/2022

The court allowed the appeal from north west practice Bott & Co by a 3-2 majority, finding that the firm was entitled to a lien over clients’ compensation for its costs.

Majority verdict in favour of Bott & Co in its client capture dispute with Ryanair.

14/03/2022

Commercial firm Candey asked the court to ‘develop’ the common law of champerty so that assignments to solicitors are permitted where it would not ‘enlarge the benefit they would otherwise have received’. Muhammed Haque QC, for Candey, urged the Court of Appeal to ‘make new law and remove the medieval shackles of champerty from legitimate solicitor-client agreements’ at a hearing last week.
Candey lost an appeal over the assignment of a now-deceased client’s claim to his solicitors, with the Court of Appeal confirming that ‘a solicitor acting for a client in legal proceedings may not validly take an assignment of the client’s cause of action prior to judgment’.

Law firm asked the court to 'remove the medieval shackles of champerty from legitimate solicitor-client agreements'.