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Falling through the skies at approximately 120mph before taking in the scenery of the North West from 5,000ft may sound hellish to some, but that is exactly what our Trainee Solicitor Claire Gatley is preparing to do.
A construction company has been found guilty of breaching section 4 (1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, fined £400,000 and ordered to pay legal costs of £1,534 after one of its employees fell from a height and broke his pelvis and arm.
A highways contractor has come under scrutiny after one of it’s subcontractors, who was employed to replace a traffic light pole, was electrocuted. The Health and Safety Executive decided to investigate the firm after the employee was severely burned in a workplace accident.
On Wednesday 26th April, the Devonshire Hotel in Liverpool will be hosting The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) seminar, “Dancing with Neurons”. In an industry that sees first-hand how much of an impact on life these injuries can have, and how the rehabilitation aids our client’s recovery, we are thrilled to sponsor this event.
A couple are battling over the assets in their divorce, in particular, a family holiday home in in the village of Cornamona, County Galway and have racked up legal costs so far of £800,000 on their divorce proceedings.
Medway Hospital has once again been thrust into the limelight after it was revealed that a patient had been sent home with what turns out to be a fractured spine. She was taken to the A&E department, via a land ambulance, after a bad fall down the stairs and was X-rayed.
A company was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive after an accident was reported at one of its sites where by two workers received serious burns.
A well-known bakery has been fined £2 million and ordered to pay costs of £19,609.28 after they pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulation 2005 following a workplace accident.
The government today has announced the 12 week consultation for fixed fees in clinical negligence claims with a damages value of up to £25k. Whilst this is clearly going to be inevitable, it is alarming that the news reports continue to paint the claimant lawyers as unscrupulous!
The Health and Safety Executive have prosecuted a construction company after one of it’s workers fell from a height onto a concrete floor. The worker sustained life threatening injuries and was fortunate not to have been killed as a result of the company’s negligence.
