Case studies

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.

We successfully represented one of the country’s largest plant hire and haulage companies at a public inquiry. The client had a prior history of poor vehicle maintenance and regulatory action against its licence stretching back over a number of years resulting in adverse regulatory action. However, having implemented our advice following an audit of their controls and systems, our client was called to another public inquiry for technical drivers’ hours infringements.

We provide ongoing advice including successful representation at public inquiries to the UK’s largest privately owned dairy business, which has a turnover of over £250 million. Dairy businesses, in particular, have been ‘squeezed’ by low margins on the sale of milk often resulting in unfounded allegations of maintenance corner cutting in order to save costs. Our client was called to a public inquiry to answer to such allegations.

We represented our client, a substantial haulage company, at an ‘environmental’ public inquiry where residents had objected to the use of its established operating centre.

We acted on the defence of a multi-million pound claim brought by Europe’s biggest airline arising out of an agreement to provide transport services to the airline’s passengers throughout Europe.

We have advised many clients on new licence applications and variations.