Case studies

We achieved an overall settlement figure of approximately €1.5 million plus costs for our client who was hit on a pedestrian crossing in Belgium by a driver who jumped a red light. He was catapulted approximately 30 yards.

We acted on behalf of a 41 year-old woman following a fall at a holiday rental in Florida. Our client fell as she descended a flight of wooden steps in front of the property. It had been raining before she left the property and the steps were slippery.

Our travel group negotiated a settlement worth over $300,000 for a British woman injured while visiting friends in Florida. By bringing the claim in the USA, we secured substantially more damages than if the case had been pursued in this country.

We have advised an international data analytics provider based in the US on how to address international data transfer issues in contracts with UK customers. This involves an understanding of the nature of the data involved and establishing a legal basis for transfer under the UK data protection regime.

We have advised various large organisations (including a FTSE 100 company and a Japanese IT multinational) on the steps they need to undertake to comply with data protection laws. With sanctions for breach of UK data protection laws now potentially including £500,000 fines, this is an issue that is important for both small and large companies.

Suppliers have been keen to take advantage of the available government frameworks for procurement of ICT and Cloud solutions. They also need to understand the impact of these agreements on their business.

Our medical negligence solicitors recovered damages of £400,000 for a client who developed compartment syndrome in hospital following a fall and a leg fracture.

Our client from Torbay twisted his knee on an Italian skiing holiday. He sought local medical advice and was told that he had almost certainly damaged his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). He was advised to allow ten days for the knee to settle before having an MRI scan to assess the extent of the damage.

We recently concluded a complex and substantial loss of coach use claim for our client, a European coach company. Repairs to one of their vehicles had taken much longer than anticipated resulting in the coach being out of action for a considerable period.

The Traffic Commissioner had refused to agree a request by our client, a small dairy business, to grant an adjournment of a public inquiry.

We acted on behalf of FM Conway, a civil engineering client, to demonstrate to the Traffic Commissioner that the company’s specialist vehicles were not in scope so far as the operator licensing regime is concerned.

We represented Epsom Coaches, one of the South East’s leading companies offering coach holidays, day tours, coach hire and bus services, in a successful case to prevent a competitor from representing itself as being part of Epsom’s business by using a confusingly similar name.