This blog is produced by members of the Personal Injury department at Pannone LLP, a full service law firm based in Manchester city centre. Our Personal Injury Team is the top-rated team in the North West in Chambers Legal Directory. We undertake the full spectrum of personal injury work, from road traffic accidents to industrial disease cases; from travel and tourism litigation to catastrophic injury claims involving serious head, spinal and amputation injuries; from police assault and child abuse cases to group actions arising from major disasters.
We hope you will find this blog useful, informative and thought provoking. We'd be really interested to hear from you regarding any of the issues we cover, so please take the opportunity to make comments. We would also like to hear your views on the format and content of the blog and if there are subjects you'd like us to cover, then please email us and let us know.
By Simon Weilding in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Manchester Evening news and other media have today reported the tragic story of how a wedding guest died and others were taken ill following a meal at a synagogue in Prestwich, Manchester. The article can be read in full here. Leading Personal Injury Lawyer Clare Campbell of... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
It is terrible to read of yet another incident involving a child being injured by dogs in today’s press. All too often in this department we encounter claims involving dog bites, although fortunately rarely as severe as the injuries poor little Rhianna has suffered from. However there have... read more
By Joanne Berry in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
I was pleased to read in the press this week that a former bomb disposal has suceeded in his claim against the Ministry of Defence, as they failed to properly diagnose and treat PTSD he developed after active service including in the Gulf, Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone. ... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I wouldn't want to take on the delighful Ms Campbell's claim after famously falling off her vertiginous Vivienne Westwood platforms - after all she was surely aware of the risks she was taking on when she started tottering down the runway - however I am currently acting... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
To my colleagues it may look as if I have recently been playing dollies with a pushchair in the office, but it is all in the name of research as I have spent quite a bit of time examining a buggy which has caused a nasty injury to a two year old boy. The facts of this accident are very... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The Government is currently undertaking a two-pronged attack on the rights of injured victims to recover adequate and just compensation. Last week the justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, said the government will consult this autumn on parts of Sir Rupert Jackson's recent report on costs in... read more
By Nick Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Thursday, July 29, 2010
Over the past few days, the letters section of the Metro newspaper has focused on cars -v- cyclists issues... and then somebody mentioned that pedestrians can be as much of a menace as cars! And now, all hell appears to have broken loose on the debate. I commute by bike... read more
By Tim Grover in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Monday, July 26, 2010
I have been receiving some quite disturbing reports from concerned guests who have returned from their holidays at the all-inclusive Holiday Village Rhodes in Kolymbia, Greece. These reports are claiming that there is a large scale illness outbreak at the resort, operated exclusively by First... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Friday, July 23, 2010
I am acting for a Claimant who sustained unfortunate and distressing injury when his computer suddenly exploded whilst he was using it at home. The victim had purchased a brand new Archos 9 PC 8.9 inch Tablet only days before and was simply running a performance test off the mains when the... read more
By Nick Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Our Cycling Claims Team will be entertaining cycling claims contacts and other members of the local cycling community this Thursday for live coverage of the Pau to Tourmalet stage of this year's Tour de France. This is unique event to Manchester. Guests will celebrate Le Tour and... read more
