Case Studies

Helen was walking into a jeweller’s shop when suddenly, without warning, the door shutter fell down and struck Helen on her head and injured her nose. Helen took action against the shop owners and building contractors who were working on the door....

Jo was a passenger in a car when she was injured in a high speed road accident. The car came off the road and crashed into a tree. Jo had facial injuries and lost some teeth, she suffered whiplash and psychological injury....

Dorothy was travelling on a coach holiday   for senior citizens. When they arrived at the hotel and she was shown to her room she noticed that there was no light in her en-suite bathroom and that there was only a small light over the washbasin. She...

Vanessa goes to a beauty salon on a monthly basis to have a bikini wax. On one occassion during the waxing process a large piece of hot wax dropped onto her vagina and burned her....

Employed as a labourer, Wayne was operating a jackhammer on a sloping bank and as he was doing this his right leg became entangled in the wire, he tripped and fell approximately 8 feet injuring his arm....

Trevor was a trade refuse collector working for a national company. He went to collect refuse from a regular customer but was unable to reverse his lorry to collect it because there were cars blocking his path. He therefore maneuvered the lorry closer to...

Stephanie went out for a meal with her son and husband to a restaurant that had deliberately dimmed lighting to create an atmosphere. In addition, the floor was dark brown and to outline the edge of a step there was a black strip across it. Because of...

Barry was employed on a building site. He was asked to use a drill that he had not been adequately trained to use and the result was that he had a drilling accident and injured his hand....

Matthew was working for traffic management contractors on the M5 motorway between junctions 25 and 26. On the day of the accident he was sitting in the driver's seat of a stationary truck, legally parked, in an area that had been cordoned off by cones...

Employed as a Shop Assistant in a supermarket, Christopher’s main duties are shelf filling on the shop floor. On the day of the accident he was instructed to help out in the Warehouse and to unload a lorry. Christopher was attempting to manoeuvre a...