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