Case studies

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.

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.