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 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 Joanne Berry in Road Traffic Accident Claims on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
As a Personal Injury Solicitor practising in the North West sadly it doesn't surprise me to read that children in my local area are more at risk from injury in road accidents. The findings from Road Safety Analysis which have been widely reported in the press, including the... read more
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
By Joanne Berry in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
A local girl, Semelia Shenel Campbell, aged just six has died after she was crushed in an electric gate outside her home in Manchester on Monday. It is too early to know exactly how this tragedy occured, and I understand the Health and Safety Executive are investigating. Sadly it is not... read more
By Joanne Berry in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Apparently personal injury lawyers are partly to blame for Englands poor performance against Germany. According to Stuart Maconie in the Daily Mirror that is. He suggests a "TV diet of Jeremy Kyle and ads for Lawyers Direct" has turned the UK into a "trembling-lipped... read more
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
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
