Personal Injury

Type of Practice

Personal injury, clinical negligence, industrial disease.

Personal Injury

Richard has received many instructions in cases involving TBI and Spinal Injuries of maximum severity with and without the benefit of Leading Counsel. Claim sizes have varied between £1m and £6m. These instructions, in the usual way, require detailed and complex schedules and counter-schedules as well as analysis and complex expert evidence, Richard has appeared in many joint settlement meetings, a process he enjoys and encourages as an efficient method of dispute resolution.

His work also includes investigation of lump sum payments, PPOs and the issue of funding of care and accommodation of/for the critically injured by Local Authorities/PCTs and the effect that this has on the level of damages.
 

Richard is also expert in occupier’s liability cases involving local authority and Council owned land, Schools, hospitals and privately owned premises.

Industrial Disease

Richard has extensive experience in appearing in industrial disease cases for both Claimants and Defendants, being instructed regularly via Trade Union and insurer clients. As well as undertaking all standard industrial disease cases involving asbestos related disease, VWF, NIHL, RSI and Occupational Stress, Richard regularly advises in more unusual diseases (eg bladder cancer, lead poisoning, leukemia) where there are unusual causation agencies in issue and where large volumes of medical, engineering, epidemiological and occasionally social historical material require analysis and assimilation.

Reported Cases

Ibrahim v MIB (Cox J, 5th April 2008) - periodical payments for catastrophic injury.

Farley v Buckley [2007] EWCA Civ. 403 - RTA liability

Green v. Bannister [2003] EWCA Civ. 1819 (Court of Appeal) - RTA liability

Ellis v. Eagle Place Services (Henriques J., Lawtel 28th June 2002) - stress trial

Norman v. Aziz [2000] RTR 107 (Court of Appeal) - Limitation in Monk v. Warbey claims

Browning v Tameside M.B.C. [1998] 75 P&CR 417 - Court of Appeal, definition of a building for planning purposes

Beard and Walters v. Yorkshire Bank (Manchester County Court, 5th April 2001) - stress trial

Griffiths v. British Coal Corporation [2000] - Interlocutory hearings in British Coal Respiratory Disease litigation

Clinical Negligence

Richard regularly receives instructions to act on behalf of Claimants in clinical negligence cases. Particular emphasis is on cases of birth damage, failure to diagnose cancer and orthopaedic negligence. He has appeared on numerous Inquests and regularly undertakes multi-expert conferences, both with and without the assistance of IT.

Reported Cases

Miah v Birmingham & Black Country NHS Trust [2007] EWCA Civ. 290 - liability of NHS Trust obstetric negligence.

Whale v. North Staffordshire Health Authority (Evans J., 16th April 2003) - Liability in a cerebral palsy case