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You have been briefed on behalf of Douglas, the Defendant, to appear at trial in the County Court in a claim brought by Carol. The Judge decides the entirety of the claim in favour of Carol and gives judgment for £20,000. When giving judgment, the Judge commented unfavourably on Carol’s unreasonable failure to respond to an invitation to consider ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) before proceedings had commenced. In your submissions on costs, you bring to the Judge’s attention a without prejudice offer to settle made by Douglas the week before trial, with an express reservation of the right to refer to the letter on the issue of costs should the claim proceed to judgment. In deciding what order to make in relation to costs, which of the following best describes the particular circumstances to which the Court will have regard on these facts?

When suspecting a pes anserine bursitis, select all of the manual muscles tests below except for ___________________________ to see if it is weak or irritable. 

All are associated with acute tear of ACL except for:

Knee MCL ligament sprain:

This metatarsal is the one that most commonly has a stress fracture:

A runner has developed inflamed sesamoid bones under the 1st MTP joint. What is more likely to cause this, excessive pronation or supination?

A 55 year old female recreational tennis player arrives for a clinical appointment with a complaint of calf pain. She cannot recall a mechanism of injury. She reports having had a total knee replacement 9 months ago. You see that her entire lower leg is swollen. She has pitting edema and she is tender along her deep veins. This give her a score of ________ on the Wells clinical prediction rule.       

A 15 year old gymnast who has an L5 pars stress reaction:

All are part of anterior compartment syndrome diagnosis or proper management except for:

A hip most commonly dislocates in this direction: