Temple Garden Chambers Personal Injury Newsletter – August 2025

11/08/2025

I’m pleased to share Issue 6 of the TGC Personal Injury Newsletter—an expansive, 83‑page briefing packed with recent developments, expert insights, and practical analysis in personal injury law.

Inside, you’ll find:

Practitioner Resources

The Court of Appeal Interim Guidance in PMC v A Local Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 176 and the Future of Anonymity Orders – James Arney KC

Illegality and Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd and Others [2024] EWCA Civ 138: A New Turn in The Well-worn Road? – Paul McGrath

The Indispensability of Expert Independence: Wilson v The Ministry of Justice [2024] EWHC 2389 – Lionel Stride

Credibility and Competence on the Stand: Lessons from Samrai v Kalia[2024] EWHC 3143 (KB) – Lindsay McNeil (paralegal to Lionel Stride)

Spanish Penalty Interest is a Matter of Substantive, Not Procedural Law: Nicholls and anr v Mapfre España Cia de Seguros y Reaseguros SA [2024] EWCA Civ 718 – Lionel Stride

To Test or Not to Test: The Ten-Million-Pound Question – Clarke v Poole & Ors[2024] EWHC 1509 (KB) – Polina Sokolovska (paralegal to James Arney KC)

Fundamental Dishonesty

Williams-Henry v Associated British Ports Holdings Ltd [2024] EWHC 806 (KB) – A Good Time For Reflection? James Henry

High Stakes: Indemnity Costs in Fundamental Dishonesty Cases – Thakkar v Mican & AXA [2024] EWCA Civ 552 – Edward Hutchin

A Pleading of Fundamental Dishonesty? The Claimant Won’t Succeed in Obtaining An Interim Payment – Mehmood vMayor [2024] EWHC 1057 (KB) – Robert Riddell

Beware The Trap of Unambiguous Impropriety: Morris v Williams [2025] EWHC 218 (KB) – James Laughland

Public Liability

HXA v Surrey County Council[2023] UKSC 52: What You Need to Know – Paul Erdunast

For Better or For Worse? – Tindall and anr v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [2024] UKSC 33 – Ben Casey

Testing Tindall: Chief Constable of Northamptonshire v Woodcock [2025] EWCA Civ 13 – Anthony Lenanton

Liability Updates

Lessons From Two Recent Child Pedestrian Cases: Gadsby v Hayes [2024] EWHC 2142 (KB) and Atkinson v Kennedy [2024] EWHC (KB) – Anthony Johnson

A “Robust and Common Sense Approach” To Contributory Negligence in a Motorcycle-Lorry Fatal Claim: Palmer v Timms [2024] EWHC 2292 – Andrew Ratomski

Another RTA Liability Update: Miah (acting by his Litigation Friend) v J & Aviva Insurance Limited [2024] EWHC 92 (KB) – Emma-Jane Hobbs

Scrutiny of Evidence of Joint Enterprise in an RTA Passenger Claims Where The Defendant Pleads Illegality: Dormer v Wilson and Others [2025] EWHC 523 (KB) – Alex Glassbrook

A Gap in The Evidence: Robertson v Cornwall Council [2024] EWHC 2830 (KB) – Rochelle Powell

Midsomer Misconduct – Reckless Running on the Rugby Field: Elbanna v Clark [2024] EWHC 627 (KB) and [2025] EWCA Civ 776 – James Yapp

Quantum Updates

Interim Payment Applications – An Update: XS1 v West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS T[2024] EWHC 1865 (KB) and Lexi-Rae Speirs v St Georges University Hospitals NHS FT[2025] EWHC 337 (KB) – Marcus Grant

Child’s Play? Assessing loss of earnings for those who have yet to start work – Amadu-Abdullah v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2024] EWHC 3162 – Richard Wilkinson

A Case Of “Large And Small Apples” Rather Than “Apple And Pears”: Mixed Injury Cases Following Rabot v Hassam [2024] UKSC 11 – Andrew Ratomski

We hope you find this a valuable resource to stay ahead in the evolving personal injury landscape.