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Travel expert calls for improvements in coach safety

A travel expert has called for improvements in coach safety and driver training after a coach crash in Northern France involving British schoolchildren on Sunday morning left one teacher dead and 27 adults and children injured.

Katherine Allen, head of the Travel...

Outrage as concrete block attacks continue to plague motorists

A road safety expert has expressed her shock and outrage as yet another motorist was injured by a concrete block being thrown from a bridge.

Joanna Bailey, a partner at Fentons Solicitors LLP, who for many years has represented victims injured in...

Hope for ageing mesothelioma sufferers after landmark court ruling

Mesothelioma sufferers in their 80s and 90s have been given hope that they could still be entitled to substantial compensation following a landmark court ruling.

The Hon Mrs Justice Swift DBE handed down a judgment at the Royal Courts of Justice today...

Damages for Newtown grandmother who broke shoulder on Turkish holiday

A Newtown holidaymaker who broke her shoulder in several places when the deck of a boat she was boarding gave way beneath her, has received £220,000 in damages in an out of court settlement.

Brenda Jones, 66, had to have a half-shoulder...

Biking Becky takes on 1000 mile charity challenge

A Kingston woman is hoping to raise £1,000 a day when she takes part in a gruelling cycling challenge from Penzance to John O’Groats.

Becky Campbell, of Athena Close, will be taking part in the UK End2End 2012, a 1000 mile cycle...

Cannock man receives £250,000 compensation after motorcycle crash injury

A young overhead linesman from Cannock who suffered a horrific knee injury when a car crashed into his motorcycle has received £250,000 in an out of court settlement.

Thomas Walker was thrown from his bike when the car pulled out of a...

Travel expert advises against early Costa Concordia settlements

An expert in travel incidents has advised passengers of the ill-fated Costa Concordia against accepting any offers of settlement so soon after the incident in which at least 17 people died and another 16 remain unaccounted for.

Katherine Allen, head of the...

Statement following inquest into death of Erjon Hyseni

An inquest has today (Tues 31 Jan) ruled that toddler Erjon Hyseni was hit and killed by a rollercoaster after apparently slipping through a gap in a fence at a north London fair.

Erjon died after making his way into the path...

"End cuts to life saving roads policing," says collision injuries solicitor

A road safety expert has called for government action to put an end to the numbers of traffic police being slashed across the country after road safety charity Brake, revealed traffic police numbers have been cut by 11.6% in just five years....

Specialist 'Victims of Abuse' lawyers at national conference

Members of Fentons’ specialist abuse department spent two days meeting representatives from police forces and children’s services across the country this week, when they attended the National Child Protection & Abuse Investigation Conference in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Partners Deborah Johnson, Mark Hatzer and...

Social services still flouting human rights despite 'seminal' court ruling

Social service workers across the country are continuing to unlawfully remove vulnerable adults from their homes, flouting a seminal court ruling.

Specialist Human Rights and community care solicitor Mark McGhee  said that the Court of Protection ruling in the case known as...

Expert urges gas safety awareness

Following a recent Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution of a landlord who failed to maintain a gas fire safely within one of his properties, landlords and tenants alike are being urged to check the condition of their gas boilers.

Matthew Claxson,...

Calls for urgent action against "unacceptable" UK stillbirth rates

As a major new report is launched by the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, Sands, a medical negligence expert has joined calls for urgent action in combating stillbirths and newborn baby deaths in the UK.

Jacqui Hayat, head of the London Medical...

Potential fire risk leads to Mini Cooper recall

A recall has been issued by BMW after safety checks found that a problem in some Mini Cooper cars could potentially cause them to catch fire.

The German car giant said more than 235,000 of the popular cars were included in the...

Answers urgently needed into Italian cruise ship sinking tragedy

An expert in travel incidents has stressed the need for an urgent inquiry into how an Italian cruise ship ran aground and began to sink off the coast of Italy on Friday.

Holidaymakers from Britain, France, Italy and Germany were forced to...

Expert warns against Fentanyl patch misuse

A medical negligence expert has warned people using Fentanyl patches to be aware of the danger of overdosing, following the inquest of a grandmother who died when a hot bath caused her patch to deliver a fatal dose of medication.

Jacqui Hayat,...

Daughter makes appeal to father’s former colleagues

The daughter of a Brighton man who died from an asbestos-related cancer is appealing for her father’s former colleagues and friends to come forward and help in her fight for justice.

Clifford John Huggett, 69, died from Mesothelioma – an asbestos-related terminal...

Road safety expert calls for greater urgency in tackling drug-driving

A road safety expert has called for the government to act now in pushing through it’s proposals on tackling drug driving after a survey revealed that one in nine young drivers has driven on illegal drugs in the last 12 months.

Joanna...

Monk's victim demands Church apology for ‘brushing abuse under carpet’

A man who was preyed on as a schoolboy by the monk jailed yesterday in the latest UK sex abuse scandal, has demanded the Catholic Church apologise for ‘brushing it under the carpet.’

Richard White, who taught at the prestigious Downside School...

Human rights expert urges action on ‘failing’ social care

A human rights and community care specialist has echoed calls for reform of the ‘failing’ social care system in England which experts say is leaving 800,000 elderly people ‘lonely, isolated and at risk.’

Mark McGhee, an expert in cases involving Mental Health...