Practice area
Negligence and other torts: personal injury, clinical and medical negligence, product liability, occupiers' liability, defamation and privacy, and nuisance.
The First Claimant, born in Ghana in 1965, came to the United Kingdom in 1999 with her husband, the Second Claimant, who had arrived as a doctoral student in 1998. In 2011 the Secretary of State for the Home Department decided…
On 7 January 2023 the claimant, Zoe Haines, then aged 20 and 23 weeks pregnant, was driving her 2008-registered Ford Fiesta westbound on the unlit A30 dual carriageway some eight miles west of Bodmin in Cornwall, with her partner…
The Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation comprises approximately 1.6 million claims brought against sixteen vehicle manufacturers, alleging that their diesel vehicles contained prohibited defeat devices. On 10 July 2026 Cockerill…
The Thornaby Angling Association ("TAA"), one of the largest and oldest angling associations in the region with some 650 members, holds fishing rights over stretches of the River Tees derived from a conveyance dated 06 May 1949…
The first claimant, KDY, is a 13-year-old boy with autism, ADHD and other diagnosed conditions who has held an Education, Health and Care Plan since November 2018. He sues by his mother, NGP, who is the second claimant in her own…
The claimants, David Abbott and others, are members and former members of HM armed forces bringing many thousands of claims for damages against the Ministry of Defence for noise induced hearing loss. Liability was disposed of by…
The claimants, Michael and Norah Clarke, were councillors of Porthcawl Town Council, the first defendant; the second defendant, Kerry Grabham, was its town clerk. An audit report produced around June 2021, which the claimants say…
The applicant, Ms Claudia Nestola, brought a claim as representative of her late father, Fernando Nestola, who died in August 2018 while residing in a care home operated by the First Defendant, Leicestershire County Care Ltd. His…
The six linked claims arose out of alleged failings in the consent process for the use of synthetic mesh in the treatment of female pelvic conditions such as urinary stress incontinence. They formed a small part of a large cohort…
Jack Bristow, a 23-year-old trainee Traffic Management Operative, was killed on 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice while returning to Oxfordshire in a works van driven by his colleague Callum Smith. A tree fell onto the cab on…
FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 Limited ("FWA"), a Jersey aircraft leasing company within the FitzWalter Capital group, leased four Airbus A321 aircraft — two New Engine Option ("NEO") and two Current Engine Option ("CEO") — to the…
The claimant, The Wine Enterprise Investment Scheme Limited ("TWEISL"), in liquidation and acting by its joint liquidators, sued its former auditors, Crowe U.K. LLP (formerly Clark Whitehill LLP), alleging that competent auditing…
KHX, born in June 1974, was received into the care of the Isle of Wight Council in 1976 and, from March 1984 when he was nine, was placed at Richmond Row Children's Home at Brading, a home owned and managed by the Council, where…
The Bille and Ogale Group Litigation comprises five sets of claims brought in the King's Bench Division by Nigerian claimants against Shell plc (formerly Royal Dutch Shell plc) and Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited…
Mr William Hay, a tattoo artist working in Glasgow, brought a libel claim against Ms Nina Cresswell over publications she made in June and July 2020 alleging that he had sexually assaulted her on the night of 27 – 28 May 2010…
The claimant, Alexander Reid, is a martial artist and television personality; the defendant, Katie Price, is a well-known TV personality, author and former glamour model. They became a couple in about 2009, married on 2 February…
The claimant, an Algerian national born on 1 July 1977, entered the United Kingdom illegally, saying he had arrived in about March 2011. He accumulated convictions from 2013 onwards, mostly for theft, together with a drugs…
The claimant, Mrs Sally Brayshaw, became a patient of the Apsley Surgery, Stoke-on-Trent, in July 2012. The surgery was owned and operated by the first defendants, two partners who are not doctors. She had a long history of…
Darren Bent's claim against Highways and Utilities Construction and its insurer Allianz Insurance concerned the recovery of credit hire charges, in particular the Basic Hire Rate recoverable by him. Before trial he had received…
The claimant, Mr Aubrey Stretton Edward Bristow, a consultant anaesthetist employed at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, brought a claim for damages for personal injury against Barts and the London NHS Trust arising out of an…