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August 11, 2025
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Justice for worker with carpal tunnel syndrome after excessive tool use

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a very serious condition that can cause painful symptoms in the hands and arms, often resulting in reduced function, long-term disability, and even loss of livelihood.

Stephen Bradley-Watson
Personal Injury, Client Story
August 07, 2025
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Why future costs matter: Assessing compensation for injured children

When a child is injured in a road traffic accident, the effects can go far beyond the initial trauma. Injuries during early development can have lasting consequences, physically, emotionally, and financially.

Katrina Elsey
Personal Injury, Client Story
July 30, 2025
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A costly lift: Manual handling injury and employer negligence

Workplace injuries are all too common in physically demanding roles, particularly where employers fall short of their legal duty to provide adequate training and a safe system of work.

John McQuater
Personal Injury, Client Story
June 18, 2025
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Failures in care contributed to the death of baby Leo, coroner finds

In November 2018, baby Leo Thomson was born prematurely by emergency caesarean section at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax. Tragically, Leo died just one day later at Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice in Huddersfield, after suffering brain damage at birth.

Fay Russell
Clinical Negligence, Client Story
May 23, 2025

Understanding experience day accidents in the UK

Experience days, whether it’s a helicopter ride, race car driving, or a hot air balloon flight, are popular in the UK as unique gifts and leisure activities.

Katrina Elsey
Personal Injury, Client Story
May 14, 2025
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Child abuse solicitors support Keighley grooming survivor

Our child abuse compensation team have recently represented Fiona, a survivor of child sexual exploitation and grooming in West Yorkshire. Her case forms part of a broader pattern of abuse that targeted vulnerable children in Keighley during the 1990s.

Amy Clowrey
Child Abuse, Child Abuse - Grooming Gangs, Client Story
May 09, 2025
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Former GMP officers arrested over sexual exploitation allegations

Five retired Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers have been arrested on suspicion of raping a vulnerable teenage girl in the 1960s.

David Greenwood
Child Abuse, Client Story
April 23, 2025
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Compensation secured for survivor of Rotherham grooming scandal

Our client, referred to as YZ, was involved in child sexual exploitation and grooming in Rotherham. Her sister was also murdered in an honour killing making this particular case incredibly sensitive and harrowing and our client very vulnerable.

Amy Clowrey
Child Abuse, Child Abuse - Grooming Gangs, Client Story
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