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18 December 2011
Judge slams hotel chain as "disgraceful"
For many years it has been a central principle that the parties to a claim should adopt a "cards on the table" approach.
But we have just concluded a claim which involved an outrageous breach of that principle by a Defendant, and earned them a stern rebuke from the trial judge.
Mr Porter was a visitor to a well known Manchester hotel as the guest of a friend who was staying there. He stepped outside for a cigarette, but when he tried to get back in he found the revolving door was stuck - It turned out that the door had been locked behind him.
Our client pushed against the door but, for some reason it shattered leaving him with serious cuts to his hand.
The hotel denied responsibility for the accident and made all allegations about our client being drunk and "punching" the door.
They claimed to have CCTV film of the incident but, despite repeated requests from us they didn't disclose it and then went on to destroy the film, saying that it was "company policy".
The case came on for trial in Preston in November and the judge found in favour of our client.
When giving his judgment the Judge slammed the hotel's destruction of the critical CCTV film as "disgraceful".
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£16,000 compensation for injured football fan
Like 'em or loathe 'em, there's no disputing that the Salford Redsox have been pretty succesful over the last twenty years, and their fans have tended to enjoy their trips (from Surrey, Kent & Dublin) to the so-called "Theatre of Dreams".
But one of our clients wasn't quite so lucky. He was walking down from the stand towards the exit when he came across a large puddle completely blocking his exit. He had no option other than to walk through the puddle and ended up falling, and suffering a serious injury to his back.
Although the insurers for the club admitted responsibility for the accident, they wanted to reduce any settlement on the basis that our client was drunk and because he had been running - neither of which were true!
We took on the claim against the club's insurers on "no win no fee" terms, and pursued the case through the courts in order to prove that our client was entirely blameless.
The case was approaching trial last month when the insurers finally caved in and agreed to pay our client over £16,000.00 in compensation for his injuries.
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Win a copy of Billy Connolly's Route 66 book!!
Paul Mulderrig sneaked out of the office for a few days last week for a road trip on Route 66..... Yes, it's all Billy Connolly's fault.
The trip included a pilgrimage to Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, which is shown here and in our headline pic.
For your chance to win a copy of Billy Connolly's book about his Route 66 trip tell us who wrote the song.
(Get your answers to us before New Year's Eve!)