We are delighted to announce that Bennett Griffin’s Personal Injury department, led by Tim Ransley, has been ranked in the top bands of the Chambers UK 2025 Legal Guide and newly recognised in The Legal 500 2025, together with Commercial Property...
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Cycling offers tremendous benefits, from enhancing fitness to providing an environmentally friendly mode of transportation. However, the freedom of the road is not risk-free. Despite a small reduction in road casualties in the last few years,...
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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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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?’,...
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Whilst training for Ride London this year, I decided to join a whole load of cycling groups on social media. Hurrah! I had found a rare slice of social media that was both encouraging and supportive as well as having a wealth of helpful information....
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Access to Justice is not really front page grabbing news is it? Even without Brexit and Royal babies dominating the headlines, it hardly sets the pulse racing. But anyone that has read the best seller from the Secret Barrister, will understand...
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As we all know cyclists are identified in the Highway Code as one of the more vulnerable groups of road users. In my experience having acted for numerous injured cyclists, accidents arise because of 3 reasons. These are the actions of other road...
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When most of us leave for work in the morning, few of us consider that we may return home, days, weeks or months’ later, with serious, perhaps life-changing injuries. In 2016/17, 175,000 employees were required to take seven or more days off...
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For many of us turning up to work each day in our safe, open plan offices, where the most dangerous item we face is a faulty stapler, the idea of spending our days doing something slightly riskier is appealing. Think about it; when you were a...
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Do you remember the film, The Graduate? It may surprise you to learn that Anne Bancroft was only 35 when she played the iconic role of bored housewife, Mrs Robinson (Dustin Hoffman was 29 years). By todays standards, most people would agree that...
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Suffering from a personal injury due to the negligence of an individual, business or local body can be life-changing in some cases. However, even seemingly minor injuries can result in months of rehabilitation and lost income. That is why...
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