Widow recovers compensation after fatal car crash

My client’s spouse was tragically killed in a car accident which was caused by another driver who lost control of his vehicle when not paying proper attention to the road. No amount of compensation was ever going to make up for my client’s loss but we needed to ensure that she received full compensation to reflect all of her losses. As […]

£15,000 for young child run over by negligent driver

This child claimant had been on a day out in Felixstowe, Suffolk, with her mother and friends. They had been doing some shopping along Felixstowe’s busy Hamilton Road. That road had quite recently been converted from a traditional road and footpath layout to a modern ‘Shared Space’. Such spaces have no separate road and footpaths but instead have a […]

When did justice become ‘unnecessary’?

So with the ‘whiplash reforms’ looming, how did the Ministry of Justice go from this… to this…… The focus of reform has quietly shifted from tackling fraud to preventing unnecessary claims. In each case, the headline has been ‘to reduce your motor insurance premiums’. However, the distinction between a fraudulent or exaggerated claim and an unnecessary […]