Legal

Wales-based JCP Solicitors has welcomed new staters Carlos Land and Jessica Thomas to its serious injury service to support those who have suffered as a result of birth or brain injury. Land and Thomas join JCP's teams dealing with serious injuries, and will both be based in the company's Swansea Head Office. JCP has confirmed [...]

Express Solicitors has announced it is strengthening its clinical negligence team with the appointment of a new Partner and deputy head of the department - Tanzeela Aslam - who has experience dealing with high value brain and spinal cord injury claims. Qualified as both a solicitor and a barrister, Tanzeela joins Express from fellow Manchester-based [...]

Irwin Mitchell, one of the UK's largest provider of legal services to serious injury survivors, is moving to a larger office in Liverpool following a sustained period of growth since initially moving to the city in 2022. The firm’s activity in Merseyside is led by personal injury Partners Jonathan Betts and Matthew Garson as well [...]

A 21-year-old man has received a six-figure settlement to fund his rehabilitation following an incident where he was hit by a motorcycle and acquired a life-changing brain injury. According to report, James Donovan, 21, who was 17 at the time of the accident was hit by a motorcycling at almost 70mph in a 40 zone. [...]

An in-house early rehabilitation and support service as been launched by Serious Injury Law to support recovery for seriously injured individuals. Serious Injury Law has confirmed that the service will focus on early intervention, giving clients access to specialist treatment and care. The company has said that the service goes beyond legal representation, also offering [...]

By Huw Ponting, Acquired Brain Injury Legal Expert and Head of Enable Law's Personal Injury Team Jason (name changed to protect his identity), a digital marketing professional in his early thirties, sustained a catastrophic traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a work-related filming assignment. He was filming a video from the back of a pickup truck [...]

Enable Law, the leading medical negligence, personal injury and mental capacity law firm, has announced the appointment of Annabelle Vaughan as the new head of its specialist mental capacity team. Annabelle will lead Enable Law’s fast-growing 41-strong team of mental capacity legal experts who support vulnerable people and their families with long-term care and financial needs. In the post, Annabelle, [...]

A man who was assured his benign brain tumour was nothing to worry about now lives with limited physical mobility and in constant pain, after ongoing delays and problems in his care have left him “a shell of a person”. Tony Mardell, formerly a successful business owner, waited more than a year between his tumour [...]

The Independent has reported that a patient has received a pay out of £70,000 from their GP after developing a gambling problem from being prescribed a common Parkinson's treatment. According to the publication, 66-year-old Philip Stevens developed an impulse control disorder after being prescribed the drug Ropinirole. Impulse control disorder is listed as a potential [...]

Today, MPs are debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP and backed by a group of cross-party MPs for the second time. The bill would give adults in England and Wales who have less than six months to live and who are mentally competent the right to end [...]