Author Archives: Phoenix Legal Solicitors

Safe as Houses campaign by the Mirror

Safe as Houses campaign by the Mirror

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 […]

Purple Bricks – Failure To Provide Prescribed Information To Up To 7,000 Tenants Across The UK

Purple Bricks – Failure To Provide Prescribed Information To Up To 7,000 Tenants Across The UK

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 […]

Personal Injury Trust – Do I need one when I settle my claim?

What is a Personal Injury Trust? Do I need one?

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 […]

Our Covid Donation to local NHS staff

Alisha Butler's Donation

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 […]

#Keepintouch – iPads for NHS for CV-19 patients

iPads for NHS for CV-19 patients

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 […]

Mum Tragically Dies After Breast Surgery

Mum Tragically Dies After Breast Surgery

Louise Harvey, 36, had a tummy tuck and breast surgery at Transform Cosmetic Surgery clinic in London, reported BBC News. Miss Harvey decided to have two operations at once as she was advised by the clinic that the overall cost would be cheaper if done together. Following the three-hour operation, Miss Harvey was sent home […]

Woman Received £3.2m Compensation After Operation Delay

woman received 3.2m compensation after operation-delay

A woman received £3.2m compensation following a delay in treating her eye condition which left her permanently blind, reported the BBC news. The mum, in her 30s, started noticing her eyesight worsening, which prompted her first visit to the optician in June 2016, at which point she was diagnosed with glaucoma. The mother of three […]

New Ferry Explosion Meeting

New Ferry Gas Explosion

On 24 October 2019, Alisha Butler and Mariam Bibi attended a meeting at Windsor House in New Ferry to give advice to residents on claiming compensation, following the prosecution of Pascal Blasio for causing the explosion in March 2017. On 23 October 2019, Pascal Blasio was given 28 years in total for causing the explosion […]

Council House With Inch Wide Cracks

council house with inch wide cracks

Recent BBC news article has shown an example of how problematic the council housing can be. In the article, David Boase, a council tenant, explains that the house he has been living in for 6 years has “inch-wide” cracks outside and inside the home. He described the property as “neither safe nor secure”. (Quoted from […]

Thousands Affected By Arrowe Park Ultrasound Machines

thousands affected by arrowe park ultrasound machines

Pregnant women at Arrowe Park were scanned by ultrasound machines that had not been serviced in years. The Liverpool Echo has reported that thousands of pregnant women were scanned by ultrasound machines that had not been serviced in years. The Echo have been informed by a whistleblower at Arrowe Park Hospital there has been an […]