In February 2019, Manchester Magistrates Court fined Lancashire County Council after several employees carrying out work in the highways department developed a debilitating nerve condition as a result of failure to control exposure to vibration. Regular use of vibrating tools causes the painful and disabling disorder which, in this case, has left the employees with […]
Our client, approached Alisha Butler (director of Phoenix Legal Solicitors) to investigate a claim against Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Our client was working as a health care assistant at Arrowe Park Hospital, based on the wards. A patient there had administered their own insulin injection and left their used needle out on […]
On 13 November 2018, Manchester Magistrates Court heard that a Northwest company that manufactures soft furnishings has been fined after an employee has sustained serious injuries whilst working on an automatic duvet rolling machine. One of the employees using the machine was not authorised to operate it or trained in its use. Whilst the employee […]
Phoenix Legal Limited recently acted on behalf of a client, Miss Dallison, who suffered medical negligence during a procedure following a suspected miscarriage. Our client was in the early stages of pregnancy, approximately 8 weeks, when she started to experience heavy bleeding. She was referred to Royal Derby Hospital where she was advised that she […]
It has been reported by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)* that on 21 August 2020, at Folkestone Magistrates Court, a farmer was sentenced after a worker suffered multiple injuries after becoming entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester. The worker was pulled leg first into the machine resulting in burns to his […]
Approximately 520,000 social housing homes that fall below the Governments minimum standards and 924,000 privately rented homes. These homes can be in such terrible conditions that it causes health problems such as breathing and skin conditions. This has a knock-on effect to the NHS who spend around £1.4 billion a year treating these conditions1. We […]
Did you rent through Purple Bricks – Was your deposit protected and did you receive the correct information? Since 6th April 2007, when you rent a home and pay a deposit that deposit should be protected in a Tenancy Deposit scheme, within 30 days, and you should be given a set of prescribed information setting […]
Whilst we cannot give our clients financial advice, we can recommend people who can give them advice on whether a Personal Injury Trust should be something that our clients should take out when a claim settles. Personal Injury Trusts are normally only considered in high value claims but should be considered by anyone who received […]
Phoenix Legal Limited have recently purchased 32 care packages from local luxury brand Owen Drew England to donate to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust charity staff as gifts for all their hard work during the recent pandemic. The bags included a lovely bottle of perfume, a nurses poster and some branded Phoenix Solicitors […]
Phoenix Legal Solicitors want your help to raise money to buy iPads for the Hospitals in Wirral & Chester and care homes of Wirral so that those patients affected by Covid-19 are not alone and can make contact with their families whilst in isolation and/or undergoing treatment for covid-19. Being in hospital is scary but […]
