23rd June 2017
One of the UK’s leading lawyers for people injured after being vaccinated, has welcomed this week’s decision in the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in W and others v Sanofi Pasteur. The ECJ had been asked to rule whether a French court’s decision breached the EU Product Liability Directive, which was given effect under UK…
21st June 2017
Commenting on the personal injury reforms included into today’s Queen’s Speech as part a new Civil Liability Bill, Vidisha Joshi, managing partner and head of PI at London law firm, Hodge Jones & Allen says: “It is hugely disappointing that the Government has decided to plough ahead with the personal injury reforms in a new…
24th May 2017
The parents of a seven-year-old boy are going to the High Court on Thursday 25 May 2017 to challenge NHS England’s refusal to fund life-changing treatment for him. The boy, who is subject to an anonymity order and is known as “A”, has a genetic and rare metabolic condition phenylketonuria (“PKU”), which means he is…
21st March 2017
Three sisters who were brutally attacked in their rooms by an intruder with a claw hammer while staying at the Cumberland Hotel in London, have appointed London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen to take legal action against the hotel. On 6 April 2014, the sisters, who are from the United Arab Emirates, and six…
9th February 2017
The Court of Appeal has today ruled against the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) in an appeal it brought against paying £120,000 vaccine injury compensation to a seven-year old boy who developed narcolepsy after having the Pandemrix swine flu vaccination in 2009. The judgment was handed down following a five-year legal battle between the…
