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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
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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
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When safety measures fail: A cautionary tale from the factory floor

John McQuater, personal injury expert, discusses the critical importance of enforcing safety standards in industrial settings.

John McQuater
Personal Injury, Client Story
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Representing children in family court: parental alienation and contact arrangements

In this article, we’ll explore a childcare case shared by Ruth, who represented children in family court. This case reflects the importance of appropriate support and keeping children's best interests at heart.

Ruth Coneron
Child Care, Client Story
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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
Medical Negligence, Client Story

Switalskis secures freedom for longest serving miscarriage of justice victim

A landmark Court of Appeal ruling has quashed the conviction of Peter Sullivan - the UK’s longest serving victim of a miscarriage of justice - following a two decade-long campaign led by law firm Switalskis.

Sarah Myatt, Jim Littlehales
Crime, Client Story
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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, Client Story
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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
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