Every so often, the world of personal injury is catapulted into the national news. And so it was when Gordon Ramsey, the well-known celebrity chef, put out a message that he was lucky to be alive after a really bad accident in the US. Whilst...
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Sky News recently reported on the areas of the UK with the highest prevalence of uninsured drivers. It seems that it is Birmingham’s turn to take that particular unwelcome crown. This report comes as Police Forces enforce a week-long...
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A few years back, I pursued a claim on behalf of a lovely lady who was on the receiving end of the most consistent bullying I have seen. Her male-dominated employer had allowed the bullying to go unchecked to such an extent that she was openly...
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I suspect that for a lot of us, passing our driving test and being able to say that we had read the Highway Code was a long time ago. If we are honest, I would assume that the numbers of us who regularly refresh memories of the rules that keep us...
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With minimal fanfare to the wider public, this past week has been Road Safety Week, the UK’s biggest annual road safety campaign. The theme this year is ‘road safety heroes’ celebrating the work of road safety professionals and exploring...
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The date is 26th May 2018. My whole week has been building to the ultimate crescendo of 22 players kicking a football around in the capital of Ukraine. A once young lad, brought up on stories of Liverpool’s adventures in Europe, was about to...
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I’m sure that I am not in the minority when I say that when the clocks go back I feel a bit more groggy in the morning. This of course might also be because an extra hour in bed seems to totally throw the sleeping patterns of our children, to the...
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Out of all the tragic stories coming from the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been the odd interesting challenge to how we used to live our lives. Out of difficult circumstances often comes the process of evaluation on what went on before. One...
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There isn’t an area of the legal profession that has not been affected by the global coronavirus pandemic. Whilst swathes of lawyers up and down the country are dusting down their desks and furiously googling ‘what is a frontal adverbial?’,...
Read more...Toby Barrett, head of the Personal Injury department, has previously written about the deductions (if any) made from an injured passenger’s award of damages as a result of failure to wear a seatbelt but what of a cyclist who fails to wear a...
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