Personal injury

John has significant experience acting for claimants and defendants across the full range of personal injury claims.

The subject matter of claims includes accidents at work including factories, oilrigs, workshops, shops & offices; Occupational disease including asbestos related conditions; Road traffic accidents involving heavy goods vehicles, cars and motorbikes; Employment & holiday accidents abroad whilst on-land and on-ship.

Instructions include injuries resulting in Brain injury, Cerebral palsy and Spinal injuries of the utmost severity; Chronic pain, Amputation and Complex injuries resulting in lifetime care & therapy, adaptive housing and ancillary services. John undertakes CICA claims of the utmost severity, concerning nervous shock and Fatal accidents.

Examples of cases undertaken

  • AAA by her litigation friend BBB v MIB & another EWHC 22.7.16 – settlement of £4 million plus interim payments of £357,725 for a brain injury sustained in an RTA when age 2 & age 21 on date of settlement
  • XP v (1) Compensa Towarzystwo SA (2) Bejger [2016] EWHC 1728 (QB) – High Court trial relating to, inter alia, apportionment of damages following consecutive road traffic accidents, the first in Poland followed two years later by an accident in the UK
  • Jesmin v WH Smith Retail Holdings Ltd – County Court trial – chronic pain claim for substantial damages dismissed after a trial and damages awarded for minor soft tissue injury
  • Ibidapo-Obe v Selimi – brain injury following a collision with a car whilst a pedestrian
  • McMaster v Pringle – complex & severe brain injury that included lifetime claims for damages across the spectrum of recoverable loss
  • Middlemiss v Ministry of Defence – Junior soldier injured whilst paint balling & sustaining serious eye injuries
  • Woods v Fiserv Ltd – repetitive strain injury claim relating to work place injuries in an office environment
  • Rutley-Frayne v Meller – Fatal Accident and personal injury of the utmost severity including loss of a leg and arm
  • Weale v Todd – complex pain case including substantial business loss & expert accountancy evidence
  • Ward v First Central Insurance Ltd – poly-trauma and brain injury sustained in an extremely serious road traffic accident
  • D v CICA – CICA hearing – claim for a victim of child abuse resulting in brain injury and spastic quadriplegia
  • McGonigle & another v Fineturrret Ltd v Morgan Est PLC v Farrans Construction Ltd v Format Urzadzenia I Montaze Przemyslowe SP Z.O.O. – multi-party liability dispute following an accident on a major infrastructure project