Tag: workplace claims

John here, blogging again and looking at “injury awareness week” that has just passed. Injury Awareness Week 23-29th June 2025   What is injury awareness week? Injury Awareness Week took place on the 23rd-29th June 2025. This was organized by APIL, the association of personal injury lawyers, www.apil.com  This is…

John here, blogging again. As the year 2019 draws to a close my mind turns to wonder what, in my professional capacity, I would like either for Christmas or as a result of the snap General Election.

Afternoon all, John here blogging again. I thought I’d give a bit of a wider view of the legal world than usual and comment upon the landscape as it looks from here, as a solicitor in practice doing my best for my clients. I’m not sure many folk will be…

Over the last week or so I have spoken to a couple of people who have asked what entitlement they have to make a claim when the cause of an accident was not the employer but was another employee. The situation with regard to employers is clear in so far…

I have recently been looking at the various regulations that apply to people who work at heights and it struck me just how far we have come in protecting employees who work in these conditions.  I thought it would be a good idea to go through some of those so…

Hello again. I don’t normally go into legal arguments and intricacies in this blog, but I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about a piece of sharp practice that the government is trying to get away with. Let me share my annoyance with you. The coalition government has been very…

Good morning again. We have all heard and read about conkers, cheese rolling, donkey derbies, hog roasts (and many, many more activities) being “banned” on grounds of the dreaded phrase, health and safety, often referred to cynically as “health and grumpy”. When I hear of or read stories like these it…

Hello again, John here. Ambulance chasers and claims farmers are terms that most people had never heard of on this side of the pond, at least perhaps not until the last 10 years or so. Now we’ve all heard of them. We associate them with the murky world of slightly disreputable,…

Good afternoon and hello again. We often receive calls from people who have been hurt at work because of something a work colleague has done, or has done badly.  These injured people are sometimes worried by the fact that their workmate caused it. It might have been a  total accident,…

Hello again. Accidents at work form a large proportion of our case load and they can be as diverse and different as the myriad workplaces and jobs are diverse and different to one another. Looking at recent tragic events you can see that an accident at work for, say, a…