Join APIL Secretary and Senior Fellow, Brett Dixon, who was a member of the core working group and personal injury sub-group, for a first look at the recommendations, focusing on what you need to know for the personal injury cases that you run.
The session will cover:
- Pre-Action Protocols
- Their purpose
- Their interaction with digitalisation
- Their structure and place in the civil justice ecosystem
- Core Recommendations
- Mandatory Mediation?
- What the recommendations actually require
- The interaction with existing initiatives and rule changes
- Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocol
- Generally
- Clinical Disputes
- Disease and Illness Claims
- Package Travel Claims
- Child Abuse Claims
- Next steps following on from the CJC report
- Who will make the changes and timescales
- The need for interaction with the proposed fixed costs review
- What you need to consider
- Amending your pre-action approach
- Letters of claim
- Disclosure
- ADR
- Keeping your client informed
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Brett is a consultant solicitor with higher rights of audience for all civil proceedings. His specialism is civil procedure with a specific interest in digital change. He also provides training and consultancy services in relation to personal injury, technology and practice development.
He is also the Deputy Vice President Elect of the Law Society of England & Wales. He has been the president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on two occasions. He is a senior fellow of APIL and chair of the Senior Fellow Appointments Committee. He is involved in decisions in relation to interventions in civil proceedings recently including Belsner v Cam, Ho v Adelekun, and Hassam v Rabot along with judicial reviews by APIL of the fixed recoverable costs rules and the discount rate. He is a past member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the current legal expert member of the Online Procedure Rule Committee. He is a director of Medco and a member of the Official Injuries Advisory Group... view full biography