01/07/2022
Johnathan Payne has been engaged to represent J D Wetherspoon PLC in a claim brought against them by the family of a man who unfortunately sustained serious injury in the Queen of Iceni in Norwich. The case has been extensively reported in the media (Family sue Wetherspoon after granddad on stag do fell down stairs and died | Metro News).
The claim is ongoing.
Johnathan is instructed by Ian Ford of Kennedys, Manchester.
Laura Johnson KC and James Byrne have secured a multi-million pound settlement for a young woman who suffered horrifying avulsion injuries including the total loss of her scalp and right ear when her ponytail became trapped in factory drill. This was a highly unusual and…
We hope our readers enjoyed the long Easter weekend and grasped the opportunity, as we did, to spend a restful few days away from the coalface. We kept one eye on the courts though, and it’s just as well we did, because last week brought…
On 10 April 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Re M (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, providing long awaited guidance for deciding whether and when to grant intermediary assistance to vulnerable parties in family proceedings. An intermediary is someone whose function…
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