Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Irwin Mitchell and Accidents and Illness at Sea

The legal firm of Irwin Mitchell covers a wide range of law. In fact, many of the areas in which they are experts can be difficult to find competent solicitors in. One of these would be handling claims involving either illness or accidents that occur while on a cruise. Irwin Mitchell’s lawyers are competent at dealing with these types of claims. They have worked on the behalf of numerous clients dealing with claims that occurred on various ships across the globe. Some cases are individual claims while others have been group action lawsuits. Whatever the claim, Irwin Mitchell is well equipped to handle it effectively and professionally.

If you find yourself in a situation where you have contracted an illness or received an injury as result of a cruise, you may be entitled to compensation. To know for sure, a consultation with a lawyer at Irwin Mitchell can answer many of your questions. Irwin Mitchell makes it easy to contact them. Their website features an online claim form that can easily be completed and submitted to Irwin Mitchell. If you think you might be entitled to making such a claim remember that time is of the essence. A claim must be made within two years from disembarking from the cruise. If the cruise did not enter international waters, then the time period is much more restrictive.

For many of these types of cases, the damages that are awarded can be quite significant. In fact, some of the judgments on previous cases won by Irwin Mitchell have involved damages in excess of a million pounds. One example of a case won by Irwin Mitchell involved salmonella food poisoning. Passengers who suffered from the food poisoning received over a quarter of a million pounds. Other successful claims involved Guardia and E Coli that were contracted while onboard a cruise ship.

If you are looking for more generic accident claims in Bristol then Irwin Mitchell also covers this.  If you want to know more, visit www.irwinmitchell.com.

Potholes

Britain’s roads – to deteriorate further ?

Hotter summers, colder winters equate to deterioration in road surfaces and this last winter, many potholes suddenly appeared, wreaking havoc with car suspensions, tyres and potentially causing crashes. This has cost Council’s dear at a time when their budgets are being cut back. So how are they responding ?

It appears there will now be a new definition of when a pothole can be considered to be a pothole.

Under new guidelines from the London Borough of Lambeth, set to be copied by many other councils, holes of less than 1.57 inches (40mm) in depth will not be repaired. Under the existing rules the benchmark was depth of over 0.98in (25mm).

Parliamentary research has indicated a massive cost of pothole repairs of £13 billion a year.

Lambeth have also reduced the regularity of their road inspections from every four months to every six months.

Injunctions, twitter & the House of Lords

High Court Injunctions farce

Whichever side of the debate about super injunctions, gagging orders, privacy and such like you are on, an important implication of the recent shenanigans is that the authority of injunctions seems to have been diluted. An injunction is a very serious matter and an injunction order is one of the most stringent orders available to a civil judge. Let’s not forget that most injunctions state clearly that if a party subject to the order breaches it, prison will follow.

One of the more bizarre aspects of the recent “outing” of celebrities and business people who have obtained so-called super injunctions is that apparent alliance between followers of twitter and other social networks, generally perhaps associated with the younger generation and residents of the House of lords, often seen as a somewhat staid institution inhabited by the older generation. Together, these on the face of it different worlds seemed to have outflanked the celebrities and to an extent the court.

All in all very interesting, but don’t forget that an injunction remains a very powerful litigation weapon and a serious issue. If you are served with an injunction, whether directly or indirectly involved ion a case, take legal advice and be sure to fully comply.

Bristol solicitors areas covered

We thought it may be useful to advise that we provide legal advice in many areas of Bristol. The geographical areas we cover within the city and surrounding areas include :-

  • Bristol city centre
  • Arnos Vale
  • Ashley Down
  • Ashton Vale
  • Avonmouth
  • Baptist Mills
  • Barrs Court
  • Barton Hill, Bristol
  • Bedminster
  • Bedminster Down
  • Bishopston
  • Bishopsworth
  • Blaise Hamlet
  • Botany Bay
  • Bower Ashton
  • Bradley Stoke
  • Brentry
  • Brislington
  • Broadmead
  • Broomhill
  • Burchells Green
  • Cabot
  • Canons Marsh
  • Catbrain
  • Charlton Mead
  • Chester Park
  • Chipping Sodbury
  • Clay Hill
  • Clifton
  • Combe Dingle
  • Cotham
  • Crew’s Hole
  • Crofts End
  • Downend
  • Dundry
  • Eastville
  • Easton
  • Emersons Green
  • Filton
  • Filwood Park
  • Fishponds
  • FrenchaySG
  • Golden Hill
  • Hartcliffe
  • Headley Park
  • Henbury
  • Hengrove
  • Henleaze
  • Hillfields
  • Horfield
  • Hotwells
  • Kensington Park
  • Kingsdown
  • Kingswood
  • Knowle
  • Knowle West
  • Lawrence Weston
  • Lewin’s Mead
  • Lockleaze
  • Lodge Hill
  • Longwell Green
  • Mangotsfield
  • Mayfield Park
  • Monks Park
  • Montpelier
  • Newtown
  • North Common
  • Oldland Common
  • Patchway
  • Redcliffe
  • Redfield
  • Redland
  • Ridgeway
  • Rose Green
  • Sea Mills
  • Shirehampton
  • Sneyd Park
  • Southmead
  • Southville
  • Speedwell
  • Spike Island
  • St Andrews
  • St Annes
  • St George
  • St Pauls
  • St Philips Marsh
  • St Werburghs
  • Staple Hill
  • Stapleton
  • Stockwood
  • Stoke Bishop
  • Stokes Croft
  • Totterdown
  • Two Mile Hill
  • Tyndalls Park
  • Upper Knowle
  • Victoria Park
  • Warmley
  • Westbury on Trym
  • Westbury Park
  • Whitchurch
  • Whitehall
  • Whiteway
  • Wick
  • Willsbridge
  • Windmill Hill
  • Withywood
  • Yate

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!