Solicitor-Advocate Richard Edwards reviews the law regarding the admissibility of surveillance evidence in personal injury cases and provides suggestions for reform.

Starting with the Court of Appeal decision in Rall v Hume and culminating the High Court decision Douglas v O’Neill Richard Edwards has reviewed the leading authorities regarding the admissibility of surveillance evidence in personal injury claims in a recent article published in the journal of personal injury law (issue 2 2012). 

 

As well as considering the legal principles the article includes tips for practitioners to help reaching decisions about how to respond to such evidence.  It also considers whether the law needs to be reformed to ensure that the use of this material is properly controlled to minimise the risk of abusive and disproportionately invasive practices and disruption to the administration of justice.

A link to the article appears here with the kind permission of Sweet & Maxwell, the publishers of the journal of personal injury law:-Richard Edwards ‘Admissibility of Surveillance Evidence: A Review of the Current Law and Suggestions for Reform’ JPIL (2) 2012