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Civil procedure [2025] NIMaster 21

Coalter v Mulligan

Coalter v Mulligan [2025] NIMaster 21 (19 December 2025)

The court refused a £400,000 interim payment in a personal injury claim, finding the evidence too limited to show the plaintiff would likely obtain substantial damages.

  • Interim payments
  • Road traffic accidents
  • Contributory negligence
  • Interim-payments
  • Personal-injury
  • Road-traffic-accidents
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Employment law [2025] NIKB 64

Ferguson v Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association

Ferguson v Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association [2025] NIKB 64 (26 November 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland dismissed a boiler engineer’s injury claim, finding no breach of statutory duty or negligence caused the accident.

  • Employer's liability
  • Risk assessment
  • Provision of equipment
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Causation
  • Employer-liability
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Civil procedure [2025] NICty 6

Paul Dicks and First Central Underwriting Limited (t/a 1st Central Underwriting)

Paul Dicks and First Central Underwriting Limited (t/a 1st Central Underwriting) [2025] NICty 6 (21 October 2025)

The County Court settled costs after acceptance of a lodgment, awarding 75% of defended scale fees and refusing an extra fee for drafting particulars.

  • Costs
  • Lodgment
  • Scale fees
  • Personal injury damages
  • County-court-procedure
  • Personal-injury
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Tort [2025] NIKB 51

Lynas v Ulsterbus Ltd

Lynas v Ulsterbus Ltd [2025] NIKB 51 (12 September 2025)

Quantum judgment after admitted liability for a bus accident causing a young woman catastrophic spinal injuries, psychiatric harm, and long-term care and earnings losses.

  • Assessment of damages
  • Loss of earnings
  • Care claims
  • Psychiatric injury
  • Future loss
  • Disability definition
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Personal injury [2025] NIMaster 11

McLaughlin and Italian Coffee Holdings Limited (t/a Cafe Nero) & Ors

McLaughlin and Italian Coffee Holdings Limited (t/a Cafe Nero) & Ors [2025] NIMaster 11 (26 June 2025)

The court granted a second interim payment in a catastrophic injury claim and ordered equal contributions from the first, third, fifth and sixth defendants.

  • Interim payments
  • Catastrophic injury
  • Apportionment of liability
  • Costs
  • Interim-payments
  • Catastrophic-injury
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Civil procedure [2025] NICA 35

McFerran v O'Connor & Ors (Rev1)

McFerran v O'Connor & Ors (Rev1) [2025] NICA 35 (18 June 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed an appeal against refusal of a split trial in a serious personal injury claim, holding the judge applied the correct test.

  • Split trial discretion
  • Case management
  • Liability and quantum
  • Overriding objective
  • Settlement prospects
  • Split-trial-discretion
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Tort [2025] NIKB 38

Madden v Madden

Madden v Madden [2025] NIKB 38 (11 June 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland dismissed a personal injury claim arising from an explosion, finding the plaintiff failed to prove the accident occurred as alleged.

  • Negligence
  • Causation
  • Expert evidence
  • Adverse inference
  • Expert-evidence
  • Personal-injury
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Tort [2025] NIKB 14

Finegan v McDonald

Finegan v McDonald [2025] NIKB 14 (28 February 2025)

Road traffic accident claim in which negligence was admitted. The court awarded damages for physical injury, PTSD-related psychiatric injury, and past loss of earnings, but rejected speculative business and cardiac claims.

  • Negligence
  • Damages
  • Psychiatric injury
  • Loss of earnings
  • Personal-injury
  • Road-traffic-accident
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Tort [2025] NIKB 12

Carlin v Waldron & Anor

Carlin v Waldron & Anor [2025] NIKB 12 (20 February 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland awarded damages to a nurse injured in a hospital crossing accident, finding her ongoing back symptoms still arose from the collision.

  • Assessment of damages
  • Causation
  • Psychiatric injury
  • Loss of amenity
  • Loss of congenial employment
  • Personal-injury
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Tort [2024] NIMaster 14

AB v Logan Wellbeing Belfast Ltd & Ors

AB v Logan Wellbeing Belfast Ltd & Ors [2024] NIMaster 14 (21 June 2024)

Assessment of damages after default judgment in a psychiatric injury claim arising from fertility treatment and alleged misrepresentations.

  • Negligence
  • Misrepresentation
  • Psychiatric injury
  • Damages
  • Default judgment
  • Psychiatric-injury
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