Journal of Personal Injury Law December 2017 Table of Contents Articles Liability Duties of Care Between Actors in Supply Chains James Goudkamp 205 Consent, Remoteness and the Prolonged Death of the Chester Exception: Diamond v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Fran McDonald 212 Quantum Why Should We and How Do We Support Injured Individuals Back into Work? Andrew Frank 217 Somatoform Disorders and Chronic Pain: A Practitioner’s Guide Daniel Lawson 229 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Dr Christopher A. Jenner 235 Procedure ADR and Arbitration: The Alternative to Civil Litigation for Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Claims Andrew Ritchie QC 238 Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act Kim Leslie 247 Justice, Proportionality and Fixed Costs in Clinical Negligence Geoffrey Simpson-Scott 249 Case and Comment: Liability Dodd v Raebarn Estates Ltd C189 Various Claimants v Barclays Bank Plc C194 Baker v KTM Sportmotorcycle UK Ltd C197 Marsh v Ministry of Justice C201 PT Civil Engineering v Davies C205 Case and Comment: Quantum Damages Thomas V Hugh James Ford Simey Solicitors C210 Blackmore v Department for Communities and Local Government C212 Shaw v Kovac C218 Case and Comment: Procedure Howe v Motor Insurers’ Bureau C223 Blake v Croasdale C226 Vilca v Xstrata Ltd C232 Catalano v Espley-Tyas Development Group Ltd C238 Kupeli v Cyprus Turkish Airlines C242 Redman v Zurich Insurance Plc C247 General Editor Case and Comment Editor Colin Ettinger: Solicitor and Partner with Nigel Tomkins: Legal and Training Irwin Mitchell, London. Past President and Consultant. Consultant with Freeths Senior Fellow of APIL. Member of the Solicitors, Nottingham. Fellow and AC Personal Injury Panel. Specialities: Member of APIL. Specialities: Civil catastrophic injuries and occupational health Litigation, Personal Injury Liability and issues. Health & Safety Law. Editorial Board Mark Harvey: Solicitor and Partner at Hugh John McQuater: Solicitor and Partner at James, Cardiff. Fellow of APIL, member Atherton Godfrey, Doncaster. Fellow and of PEOPIL and UK member of the Board past President of APIL. Member of the Law of AAJ Governors. Specialities: Product Society Personal Injury and Clinical liability, travel and sports law and group Negligence Accreditation Schemes. actions. Specialities: Road Traffic Accidents, Employer's Liability Claims and Clinical Negligence. Dr Julian Fulbrook: Dean of Graduate David Fisher: Catastrophic Injury Claims Studies and Senior Lecturer in Law at LSE. Manager for AXA Commercial Insurances. He holds law degrees from Exeter, Responsible for AXA Commercial’s Neuro Cambridge and Harvard. He was a Wright trauma team that won the PI Team of the Rogers’ Law Scholar at Cambridge; a Year (Defendant) at the 2010 PI Awards. Canon Samuel Barnett Memorial Fellow at Advocates developing a more consensual Harvard Law School; Duke of Edinburgh approach to the handling of injury claims. Scholar at the Inner Temple. Member of Trust Mediation’s Advisory Council. Richard Geraghty: Solicitor and Partner Helen Blundell: Non-practising solicitor at with Irwin Mitchell, London where he is APIL. Consulting editor of APIL’s monthly also the National Practice Development publication, PI Focus. Specialities: Leader for Personal Injury Training and Interventions and judicial reviews on behalf Education. He is legal advisor to the Police of the association, the discount rate; Federation Health & Safety Committee and personal injury related HMRC issues, a member of APIL. Specialities: Serious Mesothelioma Act and related scheme; injury cases including spinal and brain infraction/complaints to European injuries, amputation and fatal claims. Commission. James Goudkamp: Barrister, 7 King's Bench Nathan Tavares: Barrister, Outer Temple Walk London. Fellow of Keble College and Chambers, 222 Strand, London. Member an Associate Professor at Oxford of the Personal Injury Bar Association and University. James holds or has held Professional Negligence Bar. Association positions at Harvard Law School, the Inner Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Temple, the National University of Health). Specialities: Catastrophic injury, Singapore, the University of Western clinical negligence. Australia, and the University of Wollongong. Speciality: Tort law. Kim Harrison: Principal Lawyer at Slater Brett Dixon Legal and Training Consultant & Gordon in Manchester. She was with Brett Dixon Training Ltd. 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Editorial We have another interesting edition. Our first article “Duties of Care between Actors in Supply Chains” addresses the following scenario: Suppose that Company A requires certain goods for its business but, for one reason or another, it chooses to source them from Company B rather than to fabricate them itself. Company B tortuously injures one of its own Employees. If Employee cannot obtain an affective remedy from Company B for some reason, a claim by Employee against Company A is likely to be confronted with numerous difficulties. This issue has never been considered by an English Court. It has not been the subject of sustained analysis in this country either. This article, written by James Goudkamp fills this gap. An interesting case which was decided earlier in the year, relates to allegedly negligent spinal fusion surgery and the subsequent repair of a large incisional hernia, a fairly rare complication of spinal surgery. The case highlights the well-known difficulty in proving, with hindsight, that strong medical advice would have been refused, had a Claimant been properly consulted. The case is Diamond v Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust1 and Fran McDonald gives a very interesting analysis of this case. There have been many reforms to the court system in recent years and the recent proposals made by Jackson LJ, may result