The Cycling Accident Solicitor Blog
Welcome to RJW's Cycling Accident Solicitor Blog!
We are a leading national law firm with over 80 years of personal injury (PI) experience. This blog will focus specifically on issues, news and legal updates of interest to cyclists.
Paul Kitson is the joint head of the PI team here at RJW, and head of the London team. He is uniquely positioned to comment on cycling related issues as not only does he mainly deal with cycling accident cases, and work closely with the CTC, but he is also a very keen cyclist himself.
News results
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Trevor Sterling on Health and Safety legislation
13 February 2012
The Prime Minister has declared that health and safety legislation has become an “albatross around the neck of British businesses”, costing billions of pounds a year. He has vowed to “kill off the health and safety culture for good”; believing that the root cause of the issue is legal costs incurred by personal injury claims against employers.
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Tristan Hallam: The bandwagon rolls on
10 February 2012
The most simple concept which everyone learns right at the very start of carrying out personal injury is work is that 2 things have to apply before you have any remote chance of obtaining compensation.
The first is liability. You have to establish that a party is at fault, legally at fault in causing the accident. In simple terms, if I am sitting at the traffic lights waiting for the traffic lights to turn green in my favour and someone drives into the back of me, it is entirely their fault.
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Tristan Hallam: Yet a further charade, Cameron has his say
9 February 2012
More people are killed annually through industrial accidents and industrial disease than wars.
We have created for ourselves through the industrial revolution and aftermath a situation where people can be easily killed and maimed at work. Why else do we have health and safety legislation….!?
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Paul Kitson: Quad Bikes: Calls for greater regulation and mandatory training.
8 February 2012
Quad bikes, four wheeled all terrain vechicles (ATV), were primarily designed for use in the agriculture, horticulture or forestry sectors but are now widely used for leisure activities.
An ATV is only permitted on a road if it is registered with the DVLA, has a number plate and has a minimum of third party insurance.
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Tristan Hallam: nervous shock
7 February 2012
The body reacts differently in different circumstances. In most cases where an accident occurs and assuming the accident has been minor, there is generally no psychiatric injury.
The test in establishing psychiatric injury is to what extent a person who has suffered a recognisable psychiatric injury. (Note please - there is no requirement to establish this element of recognisable psychiatric injury in a claim under the Harassment Act where all one need establish is ‘distress’). Comment must therefore be made by a consultant psychiatrist and by way of reference to the International Classification Diseases (ICD 10) or the Diagnostic Systems Manual (DSM IV) and should be referred to in the medical report from a consultant, with comment on the psychiatric injury sustained.
