I was sad to read that James Cracknell, the former Olympian and now adventurer, has sustained a head injury following a road accident in America. I understand James was completing a cycling endurance trip from LA to New York when it seems a truck hit him from the... read more
Welcome to the Pannone Personal Injury Blog
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.
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On 30th June 2010 the Supreme Court missed an opportunity to extend the human rights of British soldiers serving abroad when six of the nine justices in the case of Private Jason Smith held that unless they are on a United Kingdom military base, British troops on active service... read more
PTSD amongst soldiers increases risk of dementia
By Richard Scorer in Serious Injury on Friday, June 18, 2010
Scarcely a week now passes without more sad news of deaths and serious injuries of British soldiers in Afghanistan. These headlines highlight the burdens borne by our brave servicemen and women. However, whilst we hear regularly in the... read more
Soldiers fight for human rights in Supreme Court
By Richard Scorer in Serious Injury on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Today the Supreme Court, Britain's highest and final appeal court, will start considering the extent to which British soldiers on operations overseas will be able to sue the government under the Human Rights Act. The Ministry of Defence is challenging an earlier ruling by... read more
Death by dangerous driving when not behing the wheel
By Joanne Berry in Serious Injury on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
I was satisfied to read that a passenger in a motor vehicle has been jailed for 4 years for causing death by dangerous driving, even though he was not behind the wheel. John Nichols was in the passenger seat of his car, which hit a young couple causing their deaths. He permitted... read more
Our client Ian was awarded almost the maximum award possible from the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority Panel after appealing earlier decisions of the CICA which refused him any payment at all. Ian was badly beaten up and left for dead by his assailant in 2004, his friend had been... read more
"It was not my time" Client has book published
By Catherine Leech in Serious Injury on Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Denise Harris, former client of Pannone LLP personal injury department was inspired to write a book about her near death experience following a serious road traffic accident. Denise was mowed down by a drunk driver, she suffered a brain injury and orthopaedic fractures and spent 6 weeks in... read more
Soldiers suffering from psychiatric injuries - can they claim?
By Richard Scorer in Serious Injury on Monday, November 9, 2009
There is a great deal of media attention at the moment on fatalities and serious physical injuries amongst our servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan - and rightly so. But the psychological scars of combat can often be just as disabling. Is it possible to... read more
Hellrunners for cbit - the child brain injury trust
By Joanne Berry in Serious Injury on Monday, November 2, 2009
Yesterday along with a team of Pannone serious injury lawyers I completed the "Hell up North" hellrun. The route was 12.1 miles of mud, mud and more mud, and we had to wade through the bog of doom meaning a very wet and cold finish to the race! We ran to raise funds for cbit - the... read more
There has been a lot of criticism of the CICA scheme and its failure to adequately compensate the victims of crime. The press have reported high profile cases such as that of Josie Russell , the London Bombings and most recent the case of Jessica Knight and the failure of the CICA to deal... read more