SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER 2025: WEBINAR 12th MARCH 2025
Few lawyers can afford to ignore the effect of social media, both in relation to their cases and their practice generally. In some cases social media entries can affect the outcome of trials. There are specific duties placed upon lawyers in relation to social media and disclosure. It is also a means of keeping up to date with the law and a marketing tool. This webinar explores all those issues. Booking details are available here.
THE WEBINAR
The solicitor’s duty to check their own client’s social media accounts was considered in Williams-Henry v Associated British Ports & Anor (Re Wasted Costs Order) [2024] EWHC 2415 and has been considered by the courts in Lock v Ravi-Shankar [2021] EWHC 3247 (QB) and been reviewed in other cases.
This webinar looks at three things in detail:
- The duty of the lawyer in relation to social media issues;
- The role of social media in the courts and in evidence in personal injury cases;
- The ways in which PI lawyers can use social media as a resource to keep up to date in both law and procedure
(Links to useful, blogs, social media accounts and other useful online sources will be provided)
- The solicitor’s duty to the client and the court in relation to social media accounts.
- The use of social media in the courts and how it is being deployed as evidence
- Examining the case law relating to how social media impacts upon both liability, damages and credibility
- How LinkedIn destroyed a witness (and could destroy yours).
- Your client’s social media profile
- Twitter could leave your client bitter
- Facebook in the courts
- Social media and credibility
- What can you tell your client about social media?
- A social media strategy for a personal injury lawyer