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FA announce ban on heading football in training for under-12s
- 28.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Following the Football Association’s (FA) announcement earlier this month that there are plans to restrict the amount of heading within youth football, Gary Herbert - partner and personal injury solicitor here at Potter Rees Dolan - called for the FA go one step further and ban the heading of footballs for under-12s as other countries have done. This week, it was announced that the FA have now taken steps to do exactly that.
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Accessibility & public transport - 124 train stations to benefit from Government fund
- 26.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury, Court-of-Protection, Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury, Court-of-Protection
Disabled passengers across the UK are to benefit from accessibility improvements at 124 train stations thanks to a government fund of £20 million. Helen Shaw, partner in our personal injury team, comments here...
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Olympic skier Rowan Cheshire retires five years after suffering severe concussion
- 21.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
British Olympic freestyle skier Rowan Cheshire has announced her retirement, saying her "body and mind just can't keep up with the pace", five years after she suffered a severe concussion.
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Hundreds of Amazon warehouse staff injured in workplace accidents over past three years
- 19.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
New figures compiled by the GMB Union suggest that hundreds of people have been seriously injured over the last three years while working at Amazon warehouses around the UK. Richard Edwards, a Partner within our Personal Injury team who specialises in handling serious accident at work claims, comments in our latest blog...
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MPs debate acquired brain injury in Parliament
- 14.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury, Court-of-Protection, Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury, Court-of-Protection
On Thursday last week (6th February 2020) MPs debated acquired brain injury in Parliament.
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FA to impose restrictions on heading the ball for under-18s
- 14.02.2020
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Our Gary Herbert, a Partner within the Personal Injury team here at PRD who is currently serving on the committee for Headway Salford & Trafford, comments on the FA's proposals to ban heading of footballs in training for under-18s in our latest blog...
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Liverpool Clinicians create new head trauma score to tackle unnecessary referrals
- 03.02.2020
- JeanneEvans
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A team of staff from The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have developed a score to help clinicians define mild traumatic brain trauma. Our Jeanne Evans, Partner within our Personal Injury team, comments here...
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Last week, we held a joint training seminar with AKA Case Management to explore in detail the various conflicts that can, and inevitably do, arise between the litigation, financial considerations and rehabilitation/therapy needs when working with challenging clients and their families, and to explore whether the professional parties are really on the same side. Is there a way to stop such conflicts arising? Or are the conflicts themselves an essential part of our roles in delivering rehabilitation to our shared clients? Read on for more...
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Amputee PC calls for tougher sentences for dangerous drivers
- 09.01.2020
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A police officer who suffered life changing injuries - including a below the knee amputation - after he was knocked down by a drink driver is now calling for tougher sentences for offenders. Click here for more.
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