Case studies

We successfully recovered substantial damages for an employee mechanic who sustained a serious head injury following an accident at work. He had been asked by his employer to help move heavy metal hydraulic work equipment to new garage premises.

We recently settled a case out of court for a woman who suffered chronic hearing injuries as a result of using a defective headset supplied by her employer to use in her job as a home-based call handling operative for an emergency breakdown service.

We have secured an out of court settlement of £30,000 for injuries sustained by our client who was a pedestrian involved in a road traffic accident.

Our personal injury team recently recovered damages for a young female client who sustained a back injury as a result of negligent instruction by a teacher in a yoga class. At the time of the accident, our client was a beginner yoga student.

Our client, a male cyclist, was injured when a driver pulled out from a junction to his left and collided with him as he was cycling along a main road to work. The conditions were dry and bright and the cyclist had right of way.

We have settled a claim against a private land owner for the spinal cord injury and subsequent death of a gardener arising from the fall of a decayed horse chestnut tree.

We recently obtained £500,000 in compensation for a female client who was seriously injured in a road traffic accident. She suffered complicated orthopaedic and psychological damage, including injuries to her spine.

Our client, a security guard, fell down an uncovered manhole while patrolling his employer’s premises one evening. He suffered upper limb fractures and soft tissue injuries to his whole body from which he made a protracted recovery.

Our client was at a well known cinema complex one afternoon and, after the screening of the film finished, she began to make her way out of the cinema. However, the screen lighting needed to allow visitors to exit safely failed to come on and the area was very dark.

We successfully concluded a claim on behalf of a male motorcyclist who was injured after a van driver reversed into his path and collided with him as he was travelling along a main road. Our client subsequently collided with a lamppost sustaining numerous soft tissue injuries.

We recently secured damages for a pedestrian who sustained injury while walking past a building site.

We settled a claim against Darent Valley Hospital for negligently failing to diagnose and treat a fractured scaphoid. Our client was aged 21 when he was playing football and fell forward during a tackle, landing on his outstretched arm and bending his wrist backwards.