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If you have been injured and start a personal injury claim there is a good chance it will be under a conditional fee arrangement or “no win, no fee.” What this means for you is that regardless of a successful outcome or not your solicitor or firm of solicitors cannot charge you for their fees. [...]
The government has recently said that it will ban referral fees in personal injury cases. Justice secretary Ken Clarke said during a reading of the bill that the Ministry of Justice was considering a ban. However, the Legal Services Board has refused to lend support to an outright ban and this has drawn criticism from [...]
Professional institutes that provide services to people have both an implied and formal duty of care. This is particularly prevalent in the medical profession and those employed in the provision of health care have quite a stringent duty of care for their patients and the care given. In the UK the vast majority of medical [...]
Twisting the night away can lead to head aches, sprains or even a broken wrist in the case of Angela Spalding. Ms Spalding, 40 years old, was out with friends and at the Love2Love nightclub when she fell. She states the cause of the fall was a slippery dance floor and that this caused her [...]
A 45 year old man, Gerald Dahlstrom, from Cornwall suffered serious injuries when he dragged into a machine at Imerys Minerals Ltd. in Cornwall. Mr Dahlstrom was placing bags of clay onto the conveyor belt that fed the machine and he was pulled into a narrow gap between the belt and another belt above. This [...]
One of the first things that springs to mind in a vehicle accident is the damage to vehicles and injuries caused. Both areas lend themselves to making an accident compensation claim. The issue of whether you could make a claim or not, depends on who was liable for the accident in the first place. Simply [...]
A linked blog reported on the potential health issues at the Fiesta Hotel Paraiso Floral hotel in Tenerife but it would seem that other resorts are also causing misery for holidaymakers. Online reports have emerged about the 500 room and 3 swimming pool resort of Luabay Costa Los Gigantes in Tenerife. The allegations, again, centre [...]
The Catholic Church has paid compensation to three men, who are brothers, as a result of sexual abuse inflicted on them by a priest in the 1970’s. The victims were, at the time of the offences, in the care of a children’s home in Newcastle. The priest, Bernard Traynor, was a trainee priest and made [...]
We have previously looked at legislation and training around working at height. But what happens when this is not followed? A 27 year old worker from Lancashire was employed by Tower Hire Services LTD. He was given a job to work on a commercial property roof in Worcester. Whilst conducting this task he stood on [...]
