Case studies

Our client was involved in a head-on collision in which she sustained a very severe traumatic brain injury and spent several months in a coma. After the accident, a defect was discovered in the rear brakes of our client's vehicle.

We recently settled a case out of court for an employee injured as a result of using a defective lift in the building where she worked. Our client tripped and fell on exiting the lift because it had failed to reach ground level. As a result of falling to the ground, our client sustained a fractured wrist.

We won substantial damages for a driver after he was seriously injured in a fatal road traffic accident which killed one person and seriously injured several others.

Our client worked as an HGV driver for a haulage firm. Part of his job involved repetitive work opening and shunting large high-sided curtain HGV trailers many times a day.

We secured damages for a claimant who suffered a head injury and various fractures when he was knocked over by a motorcyclist at a pedestrian crossing.

Our personal injury team recently secured a sum of £32,500 for a recovery patrolman who was injured while attending a member breakdown on the hard shoulder of a motorway.

We successfully recovered £18,500 compensation for a recovery patrolman who suffered a soft tissue injury to his left little finger when attending and working on a broken down member’s vehicle.

Our client, a security guard, fell down an uncovered manhole while patrolling his employer’s premises one evening. He suffered upper limb fractures and soft tissue injuries to his whole body from which he made a protracted recovery.

Our client was at a well known cinema complex one afternoon and, after the screening of the film finished, she began to make her way out of the cinema. However, the screen lighting needed to allow visitors to exit safely failed to come on and the area was very dark.

We successfully recovered substantial damages for an employee mechanic who sustained a serious head injury following an accident at work. He had been asked by his employer to help move heavy metal hydraulic work equipment to new garage premises.

We successfully concluded a claim on behalf of a male motorcyclist who was injured after a van driver reversed into his path and collided with him as he was travelling along a main road. Our client subsequently collided with a lamppost sustaining numerous soft tissue injuries.

Our personal injury team recently recovered damages for a young female client who sustained a back injury as a result of negligent instruction by a teacher in a yoga class. At the time of the accident, our client was a beginner yoga student.