This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights features our usual round up of key cases and news and includes: (1) the Court of Appeal’s conclusion that a secondary school was not vicariously liable for the torts committed by its work experience placement student against a pupil; (2) the minutes from the meeting of the Personal Injury Discount Rate (PIDR) Expert Panel; (3) a case considering the treatment of a counterclaim where the claimant is no longer participating in proceedings; and (4) an analysis of a successful appeal against a decision not to accept undertakings offered to the court as part of a Part 36 offer.
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