Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 154 (May)
Court: Queen's Bench Division
Judge:

Nigel Wilkinson QC sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen's Bench Division (judgment delivered extempore)

Representation Stephen Killalea QC and Mark Laprell (instructed by Fentons Solicitors LLP) for the claimant.
  The first defendant did not appear and was not represented.
  Mark Turner QC and Alex Poole (instructed by DWF LLP) for second defendant, Motor Insurers' Bureau.
Judgment Dates: 17 May 2012

Catchwords

Personal injuries - Action - Liability - Claimant child entering road and being struck by first defendant's car - Whether first defendant travelling at reasonable and proper speed.

The Case

Personal injuries Action. The Queen's Bench division gave judgment for the claimant on the issue of liability in circumstances where the first defendant had been travelling faster than the reasonable or proper speed when she had hit the claimant child.

Practice Areas

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