The Legal 500

Manchester law firm Pannone LLP has represented Chevron Limited on the sale of its equity distributor business to GB Oils Limited, a subsidiary of DCC plc. The agreement for sale is valued at £21.9m and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2008. 

A Manchester man and his family will miss out on tens of thousands of pounds worth of compensation unless his solicitors can trace the insurers of the company where he worked in the 1960’s and where he was exposed to deadly asbestos dust.

A Manchester personal injury solicitor acting for former children abused by Catholic Priest, Father William Green, says there may be more victims yet to come forward to testify against the priest who was charged at Manchester Crown Court with 33 counts of indecent assault on boys in an around the Manchester area from the 1960’s to the mid 1980’s. Father William Green pleaded guilty to 27 counts.

Patrick Walsh, a solicitor specialising in industrial disease compensation at Manchester law firm, Pannone LLP, is investigating claims that workers at an ICI plant in Blackley, Manchester may have developed cancer after being exposed to dangerous chemicals.

Trainees from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP have swept the board with six of them being appointed to the committee for the Manchester Trainee Solicitors Group (MTSG).

From 10-13 September 2008, Nick Harrison, a personal injury solicitor at Manchester law firm Pannone LLP, will be cycling nearly 300 miles from London to Paris to raise funds for Headway, the brain injury association.

The dependants of a mother and daughter mown down by a bus in Knutsford, Cheshire, could sue the bus driver, says Carol Jackson, who heads the Personal Injury department of Manchester law firm, Pannone LLP. 

Carol Jackson, a specialist personal injury solicitor from Manchester Law Firm Pannone LLP says that the number of road traffic accidents could be reduced by drivers not using any type of mobile phone whilst driving.

Boob jobs and an addiction to texting have replaced "working late" as the tell tale signs of infidelity, a top law firm said today.

Manchester law firm Pannone LLP have advised Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) on its appointment of M-Pact Thales to design, build and maintain three new Metrolink extensions as part of a £575 million project. The M-Pact Thales consortium is made up of Laing O’ Rourke, GrantRail and Thales UK.

A leading business fraud solicitor Anthony Barnfather from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP, has voiced concerns over a new report which levels heavy criticism at the Serious Fraud Office.

Solicitors from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP are helping cyclists to be “seen and not hurt” by giving away high visibility bicycle vests at the Manchester City Council Bike Week drive to get more people on bikes in the city.

Specialist medical negligence solicitor, Emma Holt from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP says three recent studies have revealed that teenagers with cancer face unacceptable delays in diagnoses due to GPs failing to appreciate the symptoms or hospital staff conducting the wrong scans and tests.

Travel law solicitor Andrew Morton from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP says he is “Dismayed” at the growing tendency for holiday tour operator rep’s to shift the blame or even flatly deny that sickness related problems exist when holidaymakers complain.

A top clinical negligence solicitor from Manchester law firm Pannone LLP has voiced concerns over the number of cases of meningitis that are failing to be spotted by GP’s, doctors and A&E staff in UK hospitals.

Salford Council has caused controversy by introducing ‘a right to die scheme’ under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The scheme says Emma Holt, a Partner and Head of Clinical Negligence at Manchester law firm, Pannone LLP, could lead to conflict regarding its interpretation.

A leading personal injury solicitor that specialises in industrial disease compensation claims at Manchester law firm Pannone LLP has called for wider recognition of the causes of occupational asthma.

Andrew Morton, a travel claims solicitor at Manchester law firm, Pannone LLP says the outbreak of Hepatitis E onboard the P&O liner Aurora is a concern for passengers who will now be agonising over whether they have contracted the virus.

A hotel complex in Egypt is causing major concern as reports of hundreds of tourists becoming ill after staying there have been received.Andrew Morton, Head of the Travel Law at Manchester solicitors, Pannone LLP, said “Management at the Moevenpick Resort Hotel in Taba are claiming the outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea is a result of a virus brought in by holidaymakers, but all the evidence points to the illness being caused by food poisoning and poor hygiene standards.”

Manchester law firm Pannone LLP has been named fifth in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies To Work For survey and is once again the only law firm in the UK to feature in the top ten.

Specialist asbestos disease Solicitor Patrick Walsh at Pannone LLP sees the tragic aftermath of asbestos disease as families struggle to come to terms with the fact that employers’ negligence caused the death of their loved ones.

For the third year in succession, tourists at the Royal Park Hotel in the Black Sea resort of Elinite, Bulgaria have been hit by a sickness bug that has ruined their holiday.

Manchester travel law specialist, Andrew Morton from solicitors Pannone LLP says his firm has already received some fifty complaints, including those from a group of sixteen holidaymakers who returned from the resort at the end of August after "Two weeks of sheer hell". Now they are to take action to gain compensation for their dreadful experience.

Terrifying thought

Tracy James from Stroud in Gloucestershire, who was one of the party of sixteen family and friends who had saved for months to go on a "dream holiday". She said, "We chose the holiday as a relaxing break with everything taken care of on an all-in basis. All of us were ill apart from the two 5month old babies in our party, my son Charlie and my friends little boy, Oliver. They were the only ones who didn't eat the hotel food, so when the First Choice rep said we were suffering from an airborne virus it didn't make sense. Thank goodness the little ones didn't become ill, the consequences are too terrifying to even think of.

"It was dreadful to see everyone so ill. My other little boy, Cameron who is seven was violently sick and found it hard to understand what was happening to him. It completely spoilt our holiday, which in part was a farewell trip for our friends, Sarah and Dave Bendle who are emigrating to Australia later this month.

Bacterial disease

"Virtually everyone we spoke to at the hotel had been ill at some point during their stay and since we have been back my sister has had it confirmed that her seven year old daughter Keeley was the victim of a bacterial disease caused by campylobacter and cryptospyridium, two bacteria we are told are associated with poor standards of hygiene."

Tracy and her sister Theresa Rosser have complained to First Choice but have had no satisfactory reply. "That's why we've gone to a solicitor who specialises in travel law," said Tracy. "I'm amazed to discover that this hotel has had identical problems in the recent past and I want to know why they continue to send people out there."

Taking action

Said Andrew Morton from Pannone's Solicitors, "We are investigating all the complaints of ruined holidays at the Royal Park and will be taking the appropriate action to gain compensation for those who have had their holidays ruined. I would also urge anyone who has suffered similar problems at this hotel or in this resort to speak to their solicitor if they do not receive an adequate response from the tour operator."

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Manchester law firm Pannone LLP has strengthened its Corporate Recovery Team with the appointment of Dylan Quail as a Partner and Chris Love as an assistant solicitor, who join from the Manchester office of Beachroft LLP.

News of the appointments comes soon after Pannone has announced a 25% increase in billings for the first quarter of the financial year over the comparable quarter last year. Said Pannone's Managing Partner Joy Kingsley, "This is an excellent way to have begun a new financial year and a great time to welcome Dylan and Chris to the firm."

Dylan Quail is a Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and has recently been successful in the JIEB examination. He hopes shortly to be practising as an insolvency practitioner.

More than doubled

Under the direction of department head and Partner, Richard Glithero, Pannone's business in this sector has more than doubled over the last twelve months. Commenting he said, "We had already increased the department's capabilities by the addition of Partners Amar Rashid from DLA and Richard Drinkwater from Keoghs. By recruiting Dylan and Chris, we have at a stroke improved both our capability to handle the volume of work we are attracting and enhanced our standing in the sector with the acquisition of two highly respected professionals in this specialist field."

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