Personal Injury

James is regularly instructed by claimants in multi-track cases involving road traffic accidents, employers’ liability, public liability, occupiers’ liability, credit hire, and costs matters.

He has been appointed to the Attorney General’s Regional C Panel for Personal Injury work.

Recent successful multi-track cases:

• Successful claim disposed of at trial for the claimant who had sustained life changing injuries to her abdomen from negligent lipofreeze treatment.
• Successful claim on behalf of a claimant who sustained serious injuries due to a boiler explosion.
• Settlement on behalf of claimant factory worker who sustained a permanent life changing shoulder injury in the course of his employment after being pulled into the inner workings of a machine producing plastic laminate material.
• Settlement on behalf of claimant roofer, who in the course of his employment fell through scaffolding onto a protruding metal bolt seriously injuring his perineum and resulting in life changing injuries.
• Settlement on behalf of claimant holidaymaker who suffered a serious exacerbation injury to her lower back abroad on a package holiday after she fell through defective poolside decking.
• Claimant driver awarded damages following a liability and causation trial after suffering a serious exacerbation injury to her lower back in a road traffic accident.
• Settlement on behalf of claimant cyclist who suffered a serious fracture to the ankle and post-osteoarthritis to the talonavicular joint of the ankle.