One of our clients (aged 58), who is registered disabled, stumbled on some defective steps while attending a social occasion on 18th September 2010 at a hotel in Cheltenham. The steps in question gave way under his weight, causing him to fall and land on his right knee. Unfortunately, this accident [...]
Another client of ours (aged 30) was visiting her local pub in Oxford. At one point, she decided to use the ladies toilet and as she was walking across the floor, she slipped on a wet substance (probably split beer) which caused her to lose her footing and fall, hitting her face on the corner of a n [...]
One of our clients (now aged 59) slipped on a slippery substance (she suspects cream cheese) during December 2008 whilst she was shopping at her local Sainsburys supermarket in Sevenoaks, Kent. She landed heavily and sustained a fracture of a metatarsal in her left foot and a fracture of her right w [...]
We acted for an 11-year-old boy who sustained an injury to his right foot in an accident in June 2008 whilst playing close to his home. Briefly, he and two of his friends were playing on a grass verge beside a new un-adopted road in North Swindon. He accidentally stood on a small metal spike or rod [...]
One of our clients (aged 49) attended her daughter’s wedding reception at a hotel in Swindon. The dance floor at the reception was only a temporary construction and had been erected beforehand. There were small gaps between the floor panels. Whilst our client was dancing, one of her stiletto heels g [...]
One of our clients (aged 63) had a nasty accident just outside his home in Priory Vale, Swindon. In April 2009, he was walking in the communal garden when he stepped on manhole cover which collapsed beneath him, causing him to fall into it and suffer lacerations to both his legs. Fortunately, he mad [...]
Another client (aged 50) was working as an agency worker for a gardening/landscape company. In June 2008, he and some of his colleagues were weeding and tidying up a flower bed at a local school. At one point, he stood on a manhole cover beside the flower bed which gave way under his weight. As a co [...]
Our client (aged 67) and his wife were staying at a hotel in Manchester prior to catching a flight to South America the following day. Our client was sitting in one of the hotel chairs when it collapsed underneath him, causing him to land heavily on the floor. He sustained a number of soft tissue in [...]
We acted for a young man (aged 19) who visited a nightclub at the University of Essex during January 2006. At one point, he went to use the men’s toilets when the main door to the toilet was suddenly flung open and its edge caught his left eye and forehead, leaving him with a nasty cut on his face. [...]
We acted for a client (aged 42) who was involved in an accident during February 2007 when he fell from his bicycle. He had been riding along a narrow country lane in Wiltshire when his bike hit a large pothole in the road which was filled with rainwater. As a result, he was thrown off his bike, hitt [...]
