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April 2017

Another victory in the long-running VWF professional negligence litigation

Court of Appeal overturns judgment which dismissed the retired miner’s claim against his former solicitors. Jonathan Watt-Pringle QC was instructed by Mellor Hargreaves on the appeal against the dismissal of the claim on grounds that the appellant had failed to…

28/04/2017
News
Another victory in the long-running VWF professional negligence litigation

43-year-old Warehouse Worker recovered £539,000 for post traumatic fibromyalgia following a workplace accident – Marcus Grant represented the Claimant

43-year-old Warehouse Worker recovered £539,000 for post traumatic fibromyalgia following a workplace accident – Marcus Grant instructed by Steven Akerman of Brian Barr Solicitors represented the Claimant. A Warehouse Worker for Argos fell backwards landing heavily on her right sacro-iliac…

28/04/2017
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Taxi driver’s personal injury claim dismissed on grounds of fundamental dishonesty

Jonathan Watt-Pringle, instructed by Clyde and Co, successfully argued for the dismissal of the claim on grounds that the claimant had lied about his inability to return to work after his accident. The claimant suffered multiple serious injuries, including a…

27/04/2017
News

Karim Khan KC appears before Military Tribunal in Cameroon defending a human rights lawyer charged with offences carrying the death penalty

On 27 April 2017, Karim Khan KC appeared in the Military Tribunal in Yaounde, Cameroon where he is the international lawyer in a team defending Human Rights lawyer, Dr. Nkomgho Felix Agbor Bala. Dr. Felix Agbor Bala possess a doctorate…

27/04/2017
News

HMP/YOI Cookham Wood Adewole Inquest

William Irwin represented HMP/YOI Cookham Wood in an inquest into the death in custody of Daniel Adewole, which has just concluded. Daniel Adewole was 16 years old when he was found dead in his cell at HMP/YOI Cookham Wood. He was…

26/04/2017
News

TGC Health and Safety Conference 2017

We are delighted to announce our second major seminar of 2017. The aim of the seminar is to bring together solicitors, in-house lawyers, insurers, directors and senior managers concerned with health and safety to inform and excite debate on a…

25/04/2017
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TGC Health and Safety Conference 2017

_TGC Health Safety Conference 2017

25/04/2017
Events

Inquest concludes that British Airways pilot died as a result of an overdose of Pentobarbital

Keith Morton KC represented the Civil Aviation Authority at the high profile Inquest into the death of Mr Richard Westgate, a former British Airways pilot. In the course of the investigation into Mr Westgate’s death it had been suggested he…

19/04/2017
News

Rodney Dixon KC is speaking at National University of Singapore on International Law and the Middle East

The event has been organised by Dr Victor Kattan, Senior Research Fellow at NUS. More information can be found here.

18/04/2017
News

Supreme Court Victory

Simon Browne QC and James Laughland appeared for two separate successful Respondents in the Supreme Court. Three national newspapers (The Times, Daily Mail, and The Mirror) were attempting to avoid paying any additional liabilities (success fees and ATE premiums) to…

11/04/2017
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