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
(Reproduced with kind permission of Lexcel Link/Law Society).
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
Darren Tamplin, medical negligence partner at Fairweathers, has been selected as one of the first 22 ‘Patient Safety Champions’ in England and Wales.Continue reading this article
We have just settled a case on behalf of a man from Herne who lost is long-term partner, Edith, back in April 2005 when she died following straightforward surgery for an incisional hernia repair.Continue reading this article
We have recently concluded a long standing fatality case on behalf of an Ashford lady whose husband’s death in June 2003 was caused by failings on the part of the William Harvey Hospital Ashford.Continue reading this article
(Reproduced with the kind permission of Kent on Sunday Media Ltd. This article appeared in Kentish Sunday Observer and Kent on Sunday newspapers).Continue reading this article
We are delighted to announce that Alex Tengroth has joined us this month from national law firm Shoosmiths.Continue reading this article
(Reproduced with kind permission of the Kent Messenger Group).
A family are suing the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, claiming doctors failed to diagnose a cancer which took the life of a father of two.Continue reading this article
(Re-produced with kind permission of the Kent Messenger Newspapers.)
The mother of a young Chartham man killed by an exploding tyre has made a formal complaint after Kent Police admitted there had been another delay in the investigation into his death.Continue reading this article
Una Turner retires from full time practice with the firm this month.
She will continue to work with us, however, part time, as a Mental Health Review Tribunal Advocate and Medical Negligence Advisor.Continue reading this article