Claimants, in what has been described as one of Britain’s biggest sex abuse compensation claims, have failed to establish liability against a lay religious order providing Brothers to work at a residential institution known as St William’s, Market Weighton. The 150 Claimants failed to establish that the De La Salle Order was vicariously liable for the alleged acts of abusers at St Will... [Continue Reading]

His Honour Judge Reid QC yesterday handed down judgment in the case of Joanne Micklewright (as Executrix of the estate of Christopher John Imison, Deceased) v Surrey County Council in the Guildford County Court. The Claimant was the executrix of the Deceased, who had tragically been killed when struck by a large branch which fell onto him from an oak tree on the verge of Wick Road, Virginia Water... [Continue Reading]