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Canterbury medical negligence law firm Fairweathers solicitors is among the founder members of a new national alliance.Continue reading this article
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Helen wins her first case!
Helen Neville, Trainee Solicitor at Fairweathers, today successfully represented a care worker at Ashford Employment Tribunal in establishing that he was unfairly dismissed.Continue reading this article
Huge payout is agreed after birth blunders
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A boy from Margate has been awarded a multi-million-pound compensation payout after the town’s QEQM Hospital admitted being at fault for injuries he suffered during birth. Continue reading this article
£2.5m payout for boy who lost his legs
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GP failed to diagnose meningitis 11 years agoContinue reading this article
Young meningitis victim awarded £2.5 million for error by Folkestone GP
15 year old Sebastian McDonnell has won his claim for compensation against his former GP, Dr Pia Holwerda. His solicitor, Darren Tamplin, partner at Fairweathers solicitors, confirmed that his client’s case has settled for the sum of £2.58 million.Continue reading this article
New trainee at Fairweathers
Paralegal, Helen Neville has today entered into a training contract with the firm.
She becomes Fairweathers’ second trainee since we started (Gemma Purt having been the first).Continue reading this article
Fairweathers joins forces with Accident Line
We are pleased to announce that Fairweathers’ Personal Injury Department has teamed up with the Law Society endorsed Accident Line scheme, as of 1st October 2008.Continue reading this article
Ministry of Justice Grants Exceptional Funding to Widower for Representation at Inquest
We have today learned that Lord Bach, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, has granted our application for exceptional Public Funding (Legal Aid) to represent our client in Inquest proceedings into the death of his wife whilst a mental health patient at a local NHS Trust.Continue reading this article
Mental Health Department ‘Excellence’ Award
A sample of the Mental Health department’s files were reviewed by the Legal Services Commission Peer Review earlier this month. The files were scrutinised over a three day period and assessed against a number of different criteria.Continue reading this article
Leaders In Practice Management Excellence
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Long gone are the days of local niche legal practices simply sitting back and allowing orderly queues of customers to form outside their doors. Today’s discerning prospective consumer of legal services is likely to invest far more time in sourcing and scrutinising potential providers than his or her historic counterpart.Continue reading this article