Despite the incredible advances in medical care and treatment and the dedication of healthcare professionals to their patients, human frailty being as it is means that mistakes can happen and in the most tragic scenarios, medical negligence can cause death.
In February 2023, Karen Bannister, a Personal Injury Lawyer at Nicholson Jones Sutton Solicitors with extensive experience in complex, catastrophic personal injury claims, successfully secured a £1.9 million settlement for a client who suffered a below-knee amputation following a motorcycle accident in September 2020. Karen instructed barristers Chris Barnes KC and David McCormick, who both played an instrumental role in obtaining such a positive result.
One of the most bitter and increasingly frequent Wills disputes cases we are currently seeing is that where the children of a deceased parent seek our advice after suspecting their step-parent has changed the Will they created whilst their parent was alive and disinherited them in favour of their (the step-parent’s) own biological children.
RSH confirmed that the council breached health and safety requirements. It had failed to complete a significant number of remedial fire safety actions, including 4,000 that were high risk. In addition, it did not have up-to-date electrical safety reports for thousands of homes.
Mould and damp growing, exterior doors that don’t lock, electric wiring exposed, rat droppings everywhere and toilet bowl encrusted with faeces are some of the issues which this mother of three has to deal every day.
A widow whose husband of 66 years excluded her and their four daughters from his will, and left everything to their two sons, has won a high court case for a share of an estate worth more than £1m.
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