Solicitor News
Read the latest news about Liddy’s Solicitors, together with updates on the personal injury, clinical negligence and conveyancing sectors.
Negligence in Emergency Medicine – A Liddy’s White Paper
Published on 13th January 2017
Mistakes and negligence occur relatively frequently in emergency medicine. The main reason for this is that emergency departments are largely staffed by inexperienced doctors (mainly foundation year...
Knee Operation Gone Wrong
Published on 13th January 2017
In 2011, a Wakefield woman underwent a knee replacement operation at Pinderfields hospital. Unfortunately the surgeon placed the plastic knee replacement in wrongly and the patient found...
Read this Article Before Buying or Selling your House
Published on 6th January 2017
Shopping around for the best deal on conveyancing can save you hundreds of pounds, but it can also be very time consuming and only works if you...
Negligence in General Practice – a Liddy’s White Paper
Published on 4th November 2016
In 1948 the National Health Service was born. It gave every citizen the right to be registered with an NHS General Practitioner and to be consulted free...
What to be Aware of When buying Your First Home
Published on 7th October 2016
At Liddy’s we try and make the process as simple and clean as possible, to make it easier for you. However, there are things that are out...
Can I claim for a sports injury?
Published on 29th September 2016
When people think of a sports injury the first thing they think of is a tackle gone wrong in football, or some kind of malicious attack on...
Could the Ban on Cold Calling be Lifted?
Published on 21st September 2016
The SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) currently has a regulation that prevents solicitors from cold calling potential clients via the phone. However, there has recently been talks which...
What to Look for in a Good Personal Injury or Medical Negligence Solicitor.
Published on 6th September 2016
This is why we, at Liddy’s, thought it would be a good idea to put together a few points about what to look for in a personal...
What are your rights as a patient of the NHS?
Published on 25th August 2016
The NHS is a huge organisation, and sometimes when seeking treatment it can feel a bit like you are being bounced around from pillar to post, with...
Can I claim for medical negligence?
Published on 5th August 2016
However, as wonderful as these people are, they are still just people. This means that they make mistakes. And when you are working in the healthcare profession,...
What to do if You are Injured at Work, 4 Crucial Steps
Published on 21st July 2016
Your employer, by law, has a duty of care over you as an employee. However it falls to each of us as employees to ensure that we...
When are you able to make a claim?
Published on 7th July 2016
To put it in the most basic of terms: if you have been injured, suffered psychological damage or contracted an illness due to somebody’s negligence then you...
What happens if you are in an accident and don’t know the details of the guilty driver?
Published on 24th June 2016
Through our years of experience the staff at Liddy’s Solicitors in Barnsley have found that the key to many cases is in the details. Often these details...
Medical Negligence Lawyer
Published on 14th June 2016
If you feel you have been a victim of medical negligence you may be tempted to try and make a claim yourself, without the aid of a...
Personal Injury Claims
Published on 9th June 2016
One of the most common enquiries we get at Liddy’s solicitors is ‘what exactly constitutes grounds for a personal injury claim?’ We thought we would throw together...