Eurydice Cote has recently settled a claim for our client, a woman in her 50’s who we alleged lost sight in her left eye following a delay in diagnosis of Acute Retinal Necrosis (ARN). Our client attended at the emergency department of St Helier Hosp...

Richard Lodge settles claim for dural tear during lumbar spinal surgery | Case Studies | We Case Studies Richard Lodge settles claim for dural tear during lumbar spinal surgery Richard Lodge represented a 79-year-old gentleman from Canada who travell...

The Brain Tumour Charity is now the largest charity of its kind in the world, has committed over £50 million to date to research and won the Third Sector Award for ‘Charity of the Year 2018’. It supports research for a cure for the 140 different type...

Initially she was asked to cover a holiday absence and was expected to work for 12 hours every day, six days a week for about a month which she found exhausting. She was paid £7.50 an hour. Once this initial period was over, the hours dropped substan...

Sibon opened the first United Legal Access clinic in Nottingham, principally to advise those who needed help with making applications for the Windrush Compensation Scheme. The second clinic was opened up at the High Commission of Barbados where she w...

She had asked her ex-husband to deal with his ongoing severe alcohol dependency to ensure that the children were safe with him during their periods of contact. When he refused to acknowledge this was an issue or discuss any of her concerns, she felt ...

Louisa was separated from Ethan’s father and needed all the support she could get to be able to bring Ethan back home safely from the hospital. However, the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which made an initial assessment about the level of care ...

She was laid off by her manager in June but realised, when she received her final payment, that things were not quite right. The employer had dishonestly claimed furlough for Nina since 1 March and had therefore paid her less for that month than she ...

Aisha received Disability Living Allowance for seven years but had to complete another application when the benefit changed its name to Personal Independence Payment (PIP). After a medical assessment, and despite the severity of her conditions, the D...

Fiona took one year off work in order to look after Caitrin after she was born as she required a great deal of care. In addition to having widespread brain injury, Caitrin has a range of needs including difficulties with temperature control and seizu...

With her partner making violent threats despite a restraining order, and having no money as he had withdrawn all the funds from her account, Rachel took the difficult decision to return with the children to in England. However, after several months i...

As Sarah was on a low income and had few savings she was unable to afford a lawyer but had heard about Aston Law Clinic, a legal clinic in the LawWorks network where students at Aston University law school, working under the supervision of a supervis...

Losing a parent can be a stressful and traumatic time for families, but when this also involves a dispute over the estate administration and lifetime transactions, it can lead to the need for Court proceedings. Often when a parent dies, one of the si...

A client whose foot problems went misdiagnosed and treated for years has received a £25,000 settlement. She was then referred to the orthopaedic team at Tameside General Hospital. Our client then underwent the following: a series of injections a foo...

Personal injury compensation award for a widow whose partner was involved in a fatal forklift truck accident at work. Fatal Accident Claim The claim was made on behalf of the estate in accordance with the provisions of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous P...

Our client’s father was given the wrong medication by a Wolverhampton pharmacy, which not only resulted in him having high blood pressure for a number of months, he was also unable to fully engage with palliative cancer treatment. He picked up his pr...

These checks should have included: Nightly checks and well-being checks during the day A call bell accessible to the resident Sensor mats on the bed or chair and appropriate equipment A review of medication to see if it is linked to falls Spinal Cord...

Failures at the Royal Oldham Hospital left both mother and baby suffering from sepsis and the hospital’s breach in duty of care led to a £20,000 medical negligence compensation settlement. Our client, a 24 year old young mother had a healthy pregnanc...

Our client was handing the testing kit to the vehicle occupants when they accidentally drove over his right foot. Following the accident, he took painkillers but later attended his local accident and emergency department at Stepping Hill Hospital as ...

A patient who suffered from an avoidable stroke when his medication was mistakenly stopped by a Liverpool pharmacist has this week been awarded a £50,000 out of court settlement. Our client had experienced a series of minor strokes in the past and as...