11/08/2025
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Temple Garden Chambers is a leading common law set based in London and The Hague.
With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
25/11/2025
Mat Brunning represented the Claimant, a plant operator who was hit by a speeding vehicle being chased by the police. Constructive dialogue with the MIB allowed the Claimant to trial and obtain suitable prosthetics relatively rapidly post-accident, such that the Claimant was able to achieve his pre-accident aim of becoming self-employed, increasing his income from pre-accident; and returned to keeping sheep on a smallholding in his spare time.
The issues in the case were the extent to which costs of heavier machinery and greater use of sub-contractors were accident-related; which, and how many, prostheses the Claimant would require, both for work and his leisure activities; the extent to which he would want or need to be capable of the heavier aspects of work himself, as his business grew and as he aged; and the amount of support he would require, both immediately and in later life.
The settlement was on the basis of an immediate move to suitably adapted, single storey, accommodation.
Mat was instructed by Peter Savage of the Medical Accident Group. The case settled at a JSM.
