Where a person suffers a spinal cord injury it will have a lifelong impact. As specialist solicitors our role is to try to secure as much compensation as might be possible to recover commensurate with what the law will recognise as compensable loss. Take...
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Who are Cafcass? Cafcass stands for Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service. They were first formed on 1 st April 2001 as part of the Government’s commitment to supporting families and children. Cafcass is an independent...
A Child Arrangements Order is an order that determines with whom a child is to live, and/or spend time with. Child Arrangements Orders are regulated by Section 8 of the Children Act 1989. The child’s mother, father or anyone with parental...
The Good Divorce week has focused on issues such a ‘no fault’ divorces in the past, the new ‘no-fault’ divorce legislation came into force on 6th April 2022. This means that couples can now obtain a divorce, either solely or...
The rules surrounding the exercise of parental responsibility of children at school can often seem complex and confusing. As a parent your child’s education is one of the most important decisions you can make, but due to the importance of this...
One of the frustrations of being a specialist spinal cord injuries solicitor is that there are some people you can help quickly, where pressure ulcers shouldn’t be an issue. That will typically be the situation in cases where liability is clear and...
Family Court proceedings can be daunting, whether you are the Applicant or Respondent, especially if you are a victim of Domestic Abuse. If you are a party to Family Court proceedings, and you are a victim of domestic abuse perpetrated by the other party,...
Brethertons Solicitors invite you to participate in, and benefit from, the support we give to Katharine House Hospice Make a Will Fortnight (3 to 14 October 2022). Please contact any one of our three offices in Banbury, Bicester or Rugby to...
The spinal cord injuries community is relatively small, yet the issues that patients - and those helping patients - with spinal cord injuries must navigate can often seem so extensive as to be overwhelming and beyond comprehension. As specialist solicitors...
It could well be that there is more than the one connection between Liz Truss and spinal cord injuries litigation, but as the country adjusts to a new prime minister – its 56 th and the Queen’s 15 th - the ‘connection between Liz Truss...
An introduction from Victoria Lea-Holton and Shivani Daudia on how we can help with Landlord Clients and Problematic Tenants. "We wanted to make you aware of some of our legal service that may be of interest as we understand that you offer...
Compensation is the best a civilised society can do to deliver a measure of justice to persons injured through the negligence of another. But no amount of money can ever turn back the clock. Does compensation make a difference after spinal cord injury and if...
Most of us have a digit footprint on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and the like. We also have photographs, videos and other memories stored with Google, Apple and Meta. Have you thought about what happens to all those images and memories when you die or if...
The court process for many is lengthy, stressful, and highly emotional. Many individuals believe that court room is the only solution. However, mediation can be a suitable alternative where parties want to avoid the emotional roller coaster of court. ...
Around the same time as the conversation with the neurosurgeon described below, someone suggested I should write a blog about the ‘principle(s) of compensation’. Not so long ago, I was in what was genuinely a light-hearted conversation with a...
We have covered elsewhere how spinal cord injuries are relatively rare (even though seven people will suffer the injury each day – one every 3.5 hours or so). If there are 50,000 people living with spinal cord injuries in the UK, that number represents...
The Depp versus Heard case has attracted much interest from both the media and the general public. I know my daughters have both been following it all very closely and have been quite shocked at some of the narrative around the couple’s behaviour. I...
Congratulations to Martin Hibbert of the Spinal Injuries Association on completing his Martin’s Mountain challenge and getting to the top of Kilimanjaro. What Martin has accomplished since suffering spinal cord injury in the Manchester arena terrorism...
As solicitors who help clients after spinal cord injury, we frequently find ourselves confronting the stark reality that as litigators all we can ever achieve is the recovery of an amount of money that the law deems to be commensurate with the...
X v Z (Parental Order Adult) [2022] EWFC 26 A recent Family Court ruling granting a UK couple a Parental Order concerning their adult child born by surrogate in the United States in 1998 has highlighted the fact that UK surrogacy law remains desperately...
I have recently finished watching BBC drama ‘The Split’, which always makes interesting viewing for lawyers. Despite the scarily frequent professional conduct breaches obvious to the trained eye, it has raised some thought provoking...
By the time a person comes to speak to a solicitor about making a compensation claim following spinal cord injury they will already have been assisted by a range of clinicians, therapists and others in the medical setting, but there are also likely to be a...
It's Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 and we have been invited to consider the experience of loneliness and how we can all potentially be affected by it and the potential detrimental effect feeling isolated can have on our mental health. The Covid...
There are obviously excellent medical references that can explain the different types of spinal cord injury far more helpfully than we can as mere solicitors. But the purpose of this blog is to explore some of the more frequently encountered aspects of...
Instructing a solicitor to prepare your Will is usually seen as the expensive way to do it but using a solicitor can save a lot of stress for you and your family, as well as giving you peace of mind and potentially saving you additional costs in the future. ...
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