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The pleasures of working as a Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Solicitor
It became clear to me quite early on during my legal studies, after a change in career, that I was gravitating towards Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law. I was initially attracted by the medical science, the general science and the promise of working with evidence to establish the claim.... -
Protecting the Client’s Interest
In personal injury matters, the Claimant must issue legal proceedings within 3 years of the date of injury, or in Clinical Negligence matters, 3 years from the date of knowledge (when they ought reasonably to have known that they had suffered a significant injury as a result of negligent treatment).... -
Rebuilding Shattered Lives
The most common reason given by most practitioners when asked why they have specialised in clinical negligence or catastrophic injury work is because of the benefit that one can provide to those who have been injured. Working within clinical negligence often client’s are already in a vulnerable st... -
Clinical Negligence explained
Clinical Negligence explained without (too much) legal language. Clinical negligence claims can often be very complex claims requiring evidence from numerous medical experts. They are different to “accident” personal injury claims as the Claimant is already suffering from some condition which brou... -
The connection between an RTA in the UK and Wall Street
View My Profile I read this morning on linkedIn a posed suggesting that some RTA insurers are refusing to accept or deal with new claims if they presented 4-5 months after the accident. It is unclear what grounds they are acting in such a manner considering the Limitation Act 1980 which allows for... -
Covid and future negligence claims
Recently I virtually attended the excellent digital APIL conference, which was a fantastic success and incredibly engaging. Over the course of the conference, the impact of Covid was a part of several discussions. It was during one of these discussions that a troubling statistic from the Lancet(1) w...
