Case studies

We have recently settled a claim for damages of more than £1 million for the family of a man who died in a road traffic accident while driving to work one morning.

We achieved a substantial settlement for a client who suffered hip and psychological injuries in a traumatic head-on collision which took place in November 2013.

We have settled a claim for a cyclist who was badly injured when he was hit by a car while riding around Clapham Common in London. The motorist hit our client from behind before driving over him and away from the scene.

We secured a substantial settlement for an elderly woman who was hit by a car as she crossed the road and sustained serious injuries, including a head injury, fractures to the right fibula and tibia, a fractured pelvis and cracked ribs.

We have negotiated the settlement of a claim for a client in his 70s who suffered a below knee amputation as a result of a road traffic accident. He was riding his moped along a main road when a car pulled out of a side junction.

We have recently achieved a negotiated settlement for a client in his early thirties, who was catastrophically injured while out cycling with his fiancée.

We have recently achieved a settlement of £14.5 million that was approved in the High Court on behalf of our client, an anonymous protected party, for catastrophic injuries caused by a road accident in France.

Our client, who is a vulnerable adult with learning difficulties, was at work when a door closed on top of him, causing him to sustain a fractured hip.

We successfully recovered damages for a brain injured foreign national, working in a senior role for an international charity, who was hit by a car when returning home from Peckham Rye train station.

We secured £170,000 in damages for our client after he was thrown from his motorcycle and suffered significant injuries. He sustained a crush spinal fracture, a severe fracture to his left wrist and carpal tunnel syndrome.

The impact from the defendant’s vehicle caused our client’s vehicle to move forward and collide with the car in front, meaning she suffered two impacts to the head.

We acted for a client who was on a canal boat holiday in France, organised through a UK tour operator. Early in the trip, it became clear that there was a mechanical fault with the boat’s steering mechanism.