Case studies

Members of our housing corporate and governance team advised a housing association that wished to diversify its activities to deliver increasingly affordable housing development in an efficient manner.

Members of our housing corporate and governance team acted for a Midlands housing association on the creation of a development joint venture (JV) with a commercial contractor in the West Midlands.

Members of our team were jointly instructed by a housing association and a local authority to advise on setting up a joint venture.

We have settled a claim on behalf of the estate and dependants of an elderly gentleman who attended St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey with a myocardial infarction, but was sent home following a failure to check his troponin levels.

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.

We have recently secured damages of £2.5 million in a claim for negligence against a private consultant ophthalmic surgeon, relating to laser eye surgery performed on our client at Optegra, an eye clinic in Guildford, Surrey.

We have settled a claim for a 27 year old female client whose appendix was not completely removed during surgery for appendicitis. Unfortunately, her abdominal symptoms continued and this affected her ability to work and socialise.

A claim was made on behalf of our client in relation to brain damage sustained at birth. Her mother suffered a ruptured uterus and required an emergency caesarean.

A claim was made in relation to injuries sustained shortly after our client’s birth. Our client developed pneumococcal meningitis, which would have been avoided with appropriate treatment. Hearing loss was subsequently identified as a result of the infection.

Our multi-disciplinary renewable energy and cleantech team is advising a longstanding client on an energy services agreement it is putting in place in relation to one of its manufacturing sites.

Our client was training to be a medical doctor when he was diagnosed with an abdominal tumour.