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Recent Cases

  • CASES

    July 16, 2020

    Personal Injury

    Gregory v Penchard Limited

    Ben represented the Claimant in this £1m+ employers’ liability claim following a manual handling accident, which successfully settled at a JSM shortly before trial.

  • CASES

    June 2, 2020

    Highways & Rights of Way, Personal Injury

    Barlow v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 696; [2021] QB 229

    More higher court success for Matthew White in a case of significance for claims involving accidents on the highway.

  • CASES

    June 1, 2020

    Catastrophic Injury, Personal Injury

    Powell v Ham competitive carriage driving accident

    Richard Stead, instructed by Lea Brocklebank, partner in DACB Beachcroft’s Complex and Catastrophic Injury Team, successfully defended a GB International carriage driver in a claim alleging negligence arising out of an accident occurring during a competition

  • CASES

    June 1, 2020

    Personal Injury

    Barlow v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 696.

    Matthew White, of St John’s Chambers’ personal injury team, successfully represented the claimant in Barlow v. Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 696.

  • CASES

    March 27, 2020

    Personal Injury

    Lent v Freer

    Ben successfully represented this cyclist who sustained severe colorectal and orthopaedic injuries in a road traffic accident.

  • CASES

    March 24, 2020

    Personal Injury

    Alexander v Wheeler

    Andrew Mclaughlin has successfully defended one of the largest FD cases to be tried in the past 12 months.

  • CASES

    March 10, 2020

    Personal Injury

    P v (1) A Transport Company and (2) An Insurer (anonymised for confidentiality)

    Ben successfully represented a child claimant who was seriously injured on a school trip in France when the coach he was travelling on flipped on a motorway.

  • CASES

    November 13, 2019

    Personal Injury

    Gilbert v Payne

    Andrew McLaughlin successfully defended a claim for damages arising out of a fatal road traffic accident in which the claimant motorcyclist, Mark Gilbert, collided with a cyclist, the late Stuart Payne. Mr Gilbert suffered very serious

  • CASES

    September 30, 2019

    Employers’ Liability, Industrial Disease, Personal Injury

    Paul Brady v Hare and Hounds

    Andrew McLaughlin, ranked in the Chambers UK industrial disease spotlight table, has successfully defended a public house in Manchester against an occupational disease employers’ liability claim brought by a former chef who alleged he was exposed to aspergillus fumigatus

  • CASES

    September 16, 2019

    Personal Injury, Public Liability

    PH v City of Wolverhampton Council

    Personal injury barrister, James Marwick, secured the dismissal of a £200,000 personal injury claim brought against the City of Wolverhampton Council after a two-day trial before Recorder Benson QC earlier this month at the Birmingham Civil

  • CASES

    July 25, 2019

    Personal Injury

    De Boorder v Tilley

    Ben acted for a skilled farm worker whose arm was pulled into the drive shaft of a tractor motor and thereby sustained a very serious open fracture with lifelong consequences for his ability to work and

  • CASES

    April 9, 2019

    Employers’ Liability, Personal Injury

    Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK [2019] EWHC 842 (QB); [2019] PIQR P16

    Matthew White was instructed to act on behalf of Cancer Research UK in Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK [2019] EWHC 842 (QB), the latest case on the scope of an employer’s vicarious liability for the acts