Blog Post Blog Post Let’s Make Workplaces Safer - How To Prevent Accidents At Work 15 July 2022 Stephanie Watson Personal Injury Workplaces are safer now than they were 15 to 20 years ago but there are still a lot of avoidable accidents each year. According to…
Blog Post Blog Post Keeping Roads Safe During the School Holidays 23 June 2022 Jamie Lyons Personal Injury With the school holidays on the horizon, and children likely to be out and about making the most of their freedom from school, it’s more…
Blog Post Blog Post Action on Brain Injury Week - See The Hidden Me 16 May 2022 Michelle Adam Personal Injury Action for Brain Injury week runs from 16 – 22 May 2022. This year, the focus is on raising awareness on what is often a hidden…
Blog Post Blog Post Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day 13 May 2022 Richard Poole Personal Injury May 13th marks Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day, an annual awareness event arranged by the Spinal Injuries Association in conjunction with…
Blog Post Blog Post Advocating for Caesarean Section Awareness 29 April 2022 Lynsay McFarlane Personal Injury April is Caesarean Section Awareness Month as promoted by ICAN, the International Caesarean Awareness Network. Caesarean sections can be…
Blog Post Blog Post Covid Care Homes Claims: The Next Wave? 28 April 2022 Kathleen-Erin Lawson Coronavirus | Covid-19, Personal Injury Yesterday the families of residents who died early in the pandemic as a result of outbreaks of Covid within their relative’s care home…
Blog Post Blog Post Risk Assessing shouldn’t be a Rare Occurrence 24 February 2022 Lynsay McFarlane Personal Injury February marks Rare Disease Awareness Month culminating in Rare Disease Day on 28 February (or the 29th in a leap year) which is a globally…
Blog Post Blog Post Tinnitus Myths and Misconceptions 7 February 2022 Richard Poole Personal Injury 7-13 February 2022 marks the British Tinnitus Association’s Tinnitus Awareness week, a campaign to make sure that everyone with tinnitus…
Blog Post Blog Post Scottish Group Proceedings Granted for Kenyan Farm Workers 3 February 2022 Stephanie Watson Personal Injury This week, a group proceedings application in Scotland was granted by the Court of Session. Class actions are well established in many…
Blog Post Blog Post Rape survivor awarded damages by civil court 30 January 2022 Daniel McGinn Personal Injury I first blogged about a civil rape case back in 2017 when Denise Clair successfully sued two footballers for rape, despite them not having…
Blog Post Blog Post Safety tips for winter exercise 25 January 2022 Daniel McGinn Personal Injury It is easy to put away the tinsel, trees and stockings after the festive period; but the effect of overindulgence in mince pies and turkey…
Blog Post Blog Post Changes to the Highway Code – what do you need to know? 21 January 2022 Stephanie Watson Claims & Disputes, Personal Injury As a pedestrian, horse rider, cyclist or motorist the Highway Code is something to which we must all pay attention. You are legally…
Blog Post Blog Post Scottish scheme for abuse survivors now open 13 December 2021 Daniel McGinn Personal Injury The Scottish Government announced last week that applications for Scotland’s Redress Scheme are now invited. The scheme creates a new…
Blog Post Blog Post COVID, Hospitals and Care Homes 5 November 2021 Gary Mannion Personal Injury Last summer I had reported that Scotland’s Crown Office had established a specialist Covid-19 Deaths Investigation Team (CDIT) to look at…
Blog Post Blog Post Former Rugby League players follow Union players in legal action for brain injuries in sport 29 October 2021 Daniel McGinn Personal Injury Last year saw cases brought by former Rugby Union players against the sports’ governing bodies in respect of brain injuries sustained in…
Blog Post Blog Post Lights, Camera, Court Action? 20 September 2021 Daniel McGinn Personal Injury Whilst I might tell friends that my job as a personal injury solicitor is just like a courtroom drama and that I resemble Tom Cruise in A…
Blog Post Blog Post Primary, secondary or neither? 16 September 2021 Stephanie Watson Personal Injury In the past few years across the UK we have seen some reported decisions on psychological injury and the differences between primary and…
Blog Post Blog Post Should Patients be Able to Sue for Clinical Negligence? 29 July 2021 Michelle Adam Personal Injury This month, Nick Ross gave his opinion in The Times that patients should not be able to sue the NHS for mistakes which result in injury or…
Blog Post Blog Post One for the road? 5 July 2021 Eve McBride Personal Injury Currently in Scotland most premises licensed to serve alcohol close at around 10pm in line with Covid guidance. Whilst we are not quite at…
Blog Post Blog Post Capitalising on Road Safety Thanks to COVID? 5 July 2021 Richard Poole Personal Injury Back in January, I wrote about the fact that COVID had resulted in a reduction in the number of people killed or injured in road traffic…
Blog Post Blog Post Drive Safely, Not Under the Influence 15 June 2021 Michelle Adam Personal Injury An astonishing 21% of those surveyed admitted driving while over the legal alcohol limit and 17% confessed to driving after taking…