Case studies

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

For the majority of our transport clients we maintain on-going dialogue with the Traffic Commissioner's staff including reporting relevant convictions.

We advised u-blox AG, a fabless provider of positioning and wireless semiconductors, on its acquisition of 4M Wireless Limited, a private company headquartered in the UK. U-blox is a subsidiary of Swiss-listed company, u-blox Holding AG.

Given the myriad of small and large IT suppliers operating in the IT services market, brand protection is important for the leading IT suppliers to protect the reputation and goodwill that they have established with their customers.

Our medical negligence solicitors are investigating a claim for a client who successfully delivered her baby, but during childbirth sustained a second degree tear.

Our client went into labour with her first child, but the attending midwife failed to remove or deflate the balloon of a Foley catheter that had been inserted.

Our client was referred to hospital with suspected ectopic pregnancy. Ultrasound was inconclusive and pregnancy hormone levels should have been re-tested, but were not.

Ectopic pregnancy presents very particular and potentially life-threatening risks to the expectant mother. Penningtons has acted in a number of cases of delayed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancies.

We are pursuing a claim arising from a consultant ophthalmologist's failure to recognise signs of wet age-related macular degeneration and to advise our client on the treatment options available.

We acted for an overseas bank in relation to a legal charge over two commercial properties in Barking which are valued together at approximately £6 million. The mortgagor company entered liquidation; the bank had been in dispute with the mortgagor over the grant of a lease of one of the buildings without the bank's consent in breach of the charge. Possession proceedings were successfully pursued against the unlawful occupier and the bank appointed an LPA receiver. Negotiations have been ongoing with the liquidator as to the sale and removal of assets and the delivery up of both properties, so that the bank can sell or let them.

We acted for the owners of a property over which a claim was made for grazing rights (profits à prendre). The neighbouring landowners own a farm used for rearing polo ponies. They claimed grazing rights over our clients' land during the spring and summer months. If the claim had been successful, our clients would have been severely constrained in the use of their land.

Our lawyers advised on assignment issues relating to a lease held by an old style solicitors' partnership post K/S Victoria Street v House of Fraser.