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Website launched with apps to aid recovery after brain injury
- 15.05.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
The NHS has launched a new website for people who have suffered a brain injury or a stroke with listings of various apps which patients might find useful, the aim of the website is to help people with their recovery and rehabilitation
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Inquiry finds dangerous drivers not being prosecuted properly
- 04.05.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
More dangerous drivers are avoiding driving bans by the court according to a new report from an all-party parliamentary group.
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Three passengers "ought to have known" driver was uninsured
- 25.04.2017
- JeremySmith
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Trial judge held that all three injured passengers “ought to have known” that the driver had no insurance but, on appeal, a High Court judge applied the law from PotterReesDolan case of White v White and ruled that there was no evidence for the judge’s decision
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Speed bumps: will they soon be a thing of the past?
- 18.04.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
Councils across the UK could phase out speed bumps from our roads in an effort to reduce air pollution.
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Campaign to encourage amputees to #GetMoving this month
- 06.04.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Today is World Physical Activity Day and what better way to celebrate than finding ways to #GetMoving. As part of Limb Loss Awareness Month, multiple amputation charities have joined forces to make April 2017 the very first awareness month like this in the UK.
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Police in Manchester going undercover to catch drivers overtaking cyclists
- 21.03.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Undercover police are posing as cyclists to try and catch drivers who overtake dangerously close in Manchester
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Report into Cycle Superhighways impacting collision rates
- 14.03.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A report has questioned the Cycle Superhighways in London are really protecting cyclists from collisions. Statistics were gathered over eights years by the Centre for Transport Studies who found that routes with large proportion of segregated lanes were more effective at protecting cyclists.
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Discount rate is reduced for personal injury damages
- 27.02.2017
- GaryHerbert
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
I welcome the news that the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss has reduced the discount rate for personal injury damages, although stresses that this is not a ‘windfall’ for Claimants with brain and spinal injuries.
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Download our in-depth guide to the process and challenges involved in adapting or purchasing a new home following a serious injury. Inside you will get specialist advice from solicitors, disability architects and clients who have been in the situation themselves.
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Hugh Potter to speak to students at University Law School
- 10.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
We're delighted to announce that Hugh Potter will feature as a guest speaker at the School of Law at the University of Nottingham on Tuesday 28th February.
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