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Personal Injury
What we do
Our role is to provide you with the information you need to deliver first class legal services to your clients. We write overviews to illustrate the headline points of each of our topics. We write KnowHow, in the form of detailed practice notes, to guide you through the key practical issues of each topic, and clearly drafted precedents with drafting notes. To make it easy to find related items, we link these to the relevant Butterworths commentary, consolidated legislation, cases and forms that we have selected for each topic. And every week we review and analyse legal developments and send you an update by email.
The LexisPSL way
It is easy to access information on the topic you are interested in.
For example, summary judgment:
- Click on 'Summary judgment and strike out' in 'Litigation Practice and Procedure' which takes you straight to our overview. This gives a short summary of the topic
- Click on the KnowHow tab and select the practice note you need. For example 'Summary judgment - application by the defendant'
- In the practice note, the right hand hyperlinks will take you directly through to the CPR, cases and legislation
- Click on the 'Return to Summary judgment and strike out' link at the top of the practice note. Then click on the Precedents tab and select the document you need, for example 'Witness statement in support of application for summary judgment'. From here you can
- View the precedent and drafting notes relating to each paragraph
- Download the precedent into Word and print off the precedent or drafting notes
- Click on the 'Return to Summary judgment and strike out' link. The
- Cases tab lists all the applicable key cases for the topic as selected by our Professional Support Lawyers
- Likewise, the Legislation tab shows key consolidated legislation and CPR on summary judgment and strike out
- For example, psychiatric and occupational stress claims:
- Click on 'Psychiatric and occupational stress claims' in 'Types of claim' which takes you straight to our overview. This gives a short summary of the topic
- Click on the KnowHow tab and select the practice note you need. For example 'Establishing liability in occupational stress claims'
- In the practice note, the right hand hyperlinks will take you directly through to the relevant cases and legislation
- Click on the 'Return to Psychiatric and occupational stress claims' link at the top of the practice note. Then click on the Precedents tab and select the document you need
- Click on the 'Return to Psychiatric and occupational stress claims' link. The Cases tab lists all the applicable key cases for the topic as selected by our lawyers
- Likewise, the Legislation tab shows key consolidated legislation and statutory instruments relevant to psychiatric and occupational stress claims
Jonathan Scriven
Solicitor, Dispute Resolution and Personal Injury
jonathan.scriven@lexisnexis.co.uk
Jonathan has experience in all types of personal injury litigation and specialises in high value employers, public and product liability claims as well as representing companies in health and safety prosecutions.
Jonathan trained at Dolmans solicitors before moving to Greenwoods upon qualification where he acted for a range of composite insurers, liability adjustors, Lloyd's syndicates, private companies and plcs. Jonathan continued representing these clients when he moved to Housemans solicitors whom he helped to establish as a niche Defendant insurance practice and where he was promoted to Associate.
Tim Wakefield
Barrister, Dispute Resolution and Personal Injury
tim.wakefield@lexisnexis.co.uk
Tim has acted on behalf of Claimants and Defendants in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases, including Employer's Liability, Local Authority, Disease and NHS Litigation Authority. Tim was admitted to the Bar in 2001. Following the successful completion of his pupillage at Crown Office Chambers, he regularly appeared in both the County and High Courts on interim applications, final hearings and detailed assessments of costs. The cases he handled ranged in value and severity from minor whiplash claims to very serious brain injury cases.
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