Keoghs Insight

AWARE 12/11/2019

Food for Thought Winter '19

Welcome to the latest edition of our Food and Drink sector newsletter, Food for Thought.

• Q&A with Keoghs Partner Chris Green
• Hand and Finger Prosthetics - from Form to Function
• Mind your step
• Food & Drink Case Success
• Client Risk Workshops - Allergens
• Corporate Risk Claims Defensibility Conference

AWARE 07/10/2019

Costs Aware Autumn 2019

Welcome to the 6th issue of Costs AWARE from Keoghs.

• Keoghs specialist Costs Team is ranked as one of the top 3 Costs Teams in the UK.
• The high threshold of showing injustice when Part 36 penalties bite
• Proportionality - Does the new approach bring back the old test of proportionality?
• Costs of assisting a criminal investigation challenged and generic costs reduced to reflect the number of failed claims
• Proportionality...a broad brush approach?
• Costs in a changing world
• Interim payments during the life of a claim
• When is a Part 36 offer not a Part 36 offer?
• Interim payment on account of costs following acceptance of a Part 36 offer

AWARE 11/07/2019

At Your Leisure Summer 2019

Welcome to the third edition of our leisure and hospitality update. 

• Treading carefully
• Unpalatable claim found fundamentally dishonest
• Q&A with Nigel Kilgallon
• Single steps necessary in a nightclub environment?
• Murder on the dancefloor? Not for us!
• The case of the spitting burger
• Where have we been

AWARE 10/07/2019

Government vows to tackle child abuse online

Government’s vow to tackle child sexual abuse online and take on tech companies who will not take responsibility.

AWARE 04/07/2019

PI Aware - July 2019

Welcome to the second Keoghs PI Aware

• Market review
• Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) – An Introduction
• Interim payments during the life of a claim
• SIGs/Complex changes
• Mind the GAP
• Treading Carefully
• Litigation article and the MoJ Portal
• Litigation article and the MoJ Portal Highlighted case
• Spotlight on…
• In pursuit of the fundamental truth

AWARE 12/06/2019

Let's Talk Shop Spring 2019

Welcome to the Spring issue of our regular update for the retail sector.

• Protective equipment: The do's and don'ts
• The thorny issue of Litigants in Person
• Q&A with Dame Mary Perkins
• Costs Corner - obtaining costs from claimant damages paid by another defendant
• The Civil Liability Bill becomes an act
• Market Affairs Analysis: Civil Liability Act 2018 - Small Claims Limit Increase