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Team PRD to take part in Manchester Legal Walk 2021
- 23.08.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury, Opinion, Media-Coverage
Potter Rees Dolan has put together a team to take on the Manchester Legal Walk 2021 this September! We will be raising funds for the North West Legal Support Trust (the local arm of the Access to Justice Foundation) which funds vital local advice services.
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Team PRD take on Great Run Manchester for local Headway branches
- 29.07.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
We are extremely proud - and excited - to announce that we have put together a team to take on the Great Run - Manchester 10k in September, raising funds for local branches of Headway.
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MPs say sport is 'marking its own homework' on athletes' brain injuries
- 29.07.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Sport has been allowed to "mark its own homework" on reducing the risks of brain injury, according to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.
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Department for Work & Pensions proposes bereavement benefits extension
- 22.07.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proposing extending bereavement benefits to unmarried parents co-habiting with loved ones at the time of death.
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Back on board at Manchester’s Chill Factore
- 30.06.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
One of our personal injury clients and brain injury survivor, Will, recently enjoyed a snowboarding session at Manchester's Chill Factore with our Gary Herbert. Read more here.
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Featured Charity: ACSIL - Amputees and Carers Support in Liverpool
- 24.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury
This month, as part of our ongoing Featured Charity blog, we are shining a spotlight on ACSIL - Amputees and Carers Support in Liverpool, a charity set up to help and support amputees across Liverpool and Merseyside.
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Concussion spotters to be used at 2022 World Cup
- 17.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Concussion spotters are to be introduced at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar; it has been announced. The news comes after concerns that repeated concussions could lead to long term health problems such as dementia.
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Action for Brain Injury Week 2021
- 17.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
Today marks the start of Headway's Action for Brain Injury Week 2021. This year's campaign theme is "A life of lockdown?" which will focus on social isolation after brain injury - an issue that has been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Smart motorways up to a third deadlier than roads with hard shoulders
- 05.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Official recent figures show that the death rate on smart motorways is up to a third higher compared to motorways with hard shoulders.
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Former Crystal Palace Women captain issues concussion warning after career was cut short
- 20.04.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Former captain of Crystal Palace Women, Freya Holdaway, whose career was cut short after suffering a series of concussions during the game said her symptoms would only have got worse if she hadn't stopped playing.
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