Slee Blackwell, the solicitors behind Devon Injury Lawyers, have been included as a recommended firm for personal injury law in the latest edition of the prestigious Legal 500 guide. The Legal 500 is a highly influential guide within the legal

A 99 year old North Devon woman has won her residential home compensation claim, recovering compensation following an accident at a residential home in Ilfracombe, North Devon. We dealt with the claim on a No Win, No Fee basis. The

Local medical negligence solicitor, Mike Clarke, looks at the latest official statistics and gives his prognosis on the health of the NHS in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset The Care Quality Commission (or CQC), the NHS watchdog, has provided an in-depth

Accidents at work in Somerset and Devon: The impact of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. For many years, UK workers have been protected by Health and Safety legislation. However, that protection has been eroded by the Enterprise and

We have recently won a local man’s sports accident claim after his London solicitors failed to get anywhere with it. After switching to Slee Blackwell we were able to secure him an award of compensation for the injuries he suffered in a game of

An ordinary day at work turned into a nightmare for one of our clients, a chef working in the kitchens of a popular restaurant in North Devon. Without warning, there was a huge explosion from a ruptured and perished gas

A woman who was injured in a Morrisons supermarket fall has recovered compensation of £44,000. The accident occurred in Morrisons supermarket in Tavistock, Devon when an elderly woman tripped over a low-level “flatbed” type supermarket trolley left in one of

Successful Bideford accident compensation claim. Mr Terry Seatherton, who almost lost his right arm when it was trapped in machinery at Devonshire Pine in Bideford, has won injury compensation of over £80,000 from the company’s insurers. Terry, a keen shooter

A woman who was prescribed the wrong medication has won her compensation claim against the pharmacist who made the error. Although we are based in Devon and Somerset and well known to people locally, Slee Blackwell represents injury victims throughout the

Accident claim solicitor, James McNally, from our Taunton office reports on the announcement that the amount of compensation accident victims will be entitled to receive for their injuries is to be increased. The Court of Appeal has announced that personal