We have today concluded proceedings brought in the Ashford Employment Tribunal on behalf of a young farm worker from Canterbury who claimed he had been forced to work excessive hours, denied minimum pay under the Agricultural Workers’ Order and ultimately sacked, unfairly, on 28th December last year by his employers, a local farming family.Continue reading this article
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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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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
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GP failed to diagnose meningitis 11 years agoContinue reading this article
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
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
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
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
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