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Monthly Archives: November 2025
Highway liability & grass verges, and evidential rules on abandoned witnesses statement evidence when put in evidence by the opposing party: Demetrios Karpasitis v Hertfordshire County Council [2025] EWCA Civ 788
Introduction On 25 June 2025 the Court of Appeal (Bean, Coulson, and Andrews LJJ) handed down judgment in Demetrios Karpasitis v Hertfordshire County Council [2025] EWCA Civ 788, allowing the appeal against the dismissal of a PI claim against the Respondent highway authority. The case raised interesting questions regarding the correct evidential approach to ‘manifestly […]
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Order for costs against a Defendant where the claim failed and an allegation of fundamental dishonesty was also dismissed
In Hakmi v East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust [2025] EWHC 2597 (KB) the Claimant, a distinguished surgeon, claimed that the Defendant had breached their duty of care by failing to offer him thrombolysis to treat his stroke on 16 November 2016. Mr Hakmi contended that the Defendant’s failure caused him serious disability which prematurely ended […]
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Prosecution Collapses: HSE Offers No Evidence Against Farmer and Contractor
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has offered no evidence against a Devon farmer and building contractor following a fatal accident at a local farm. The farmer, represented by Matthew Kerruish-Jones, was formally acquitted at Exeter Crown Court in November 2025. The case arose from the tragic death of a contractor who fell down an […]
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The first reported case on the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015
Introduction On 16 June 2025 the High Court handed down judgment in Benjamin Hetherington (by his father and litigation friend Gary Hetherington) v Raymond Fell & Ferryhill Wheelers Cycling [2025] EWHC 1487 (KB). The case, which concerned the scope of duty for cycle race organisers, raised interesting questions about the obligations owed by amateur organisers […]
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