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The Lawyer magazine names Exchange Chambers as top ranked Northern Set

New criminal tenant at Exchange Chambers

Criminal Barrister Adrian Farrow writes for the Yorkshire Post on legal aid

Girl with autism successful in her bid for a special school placement

Andrew Jebb secures acquittal for client in major money laundering trial

Exhange Chambers opens in Leeds

Appointment for Bill Hanbury

Exchange Chambers barrister joins Southport and Ormskirk Hospital as Non-executive Director

Geoff Holt tells Manchester seminar about the benefits of living without disability benefits

William Hanbury’s book “fills a yawning gap in the library of property law”

Anfield to host second North West Sports Law Forum - David Casement Q.C. to speak

Exchange Chambers welcomes new tenant

The Times - Lawyer of the Week

Graham Wood Q.C. appointed Deputy High Court Judge

Renowned academic joins chambers to complement launch of Exchange Insolvency

Record Turnover for Exchange Chambers

Exchange Chambers announces ground breaking partnership with the National Autistic Society

Criminal defence specialist becomes Exchange Chambers’ latest member

Sports Law Forum launched for the North West

Ian Unsworth sworn in as a QC

Major public sector panel appointment for Exchange Chambers

Exchange Chambers Silk elected as Bencher

Ian Unsworth appointed QC

Louis Browne instructed in PC Ian Terry Inquest

Exchange Chambers Barristers in successful money laundering prosecution

Exhange Chambers to attend Chancery Bar Association Careers Fair

Exchange Chambers Barristers secure £8.35 million compensation award

Graham Knowles QC Appointed as a Circuit Judge

Civil Litigation Costs: Jackson’s Final Report Recommends Sweeping Changes

Senior Government Lawyer joins Exchange Chambers

Construction Lawyer switches career to join Exchange Chambers

Exchange Barrister in Court Success

Seminar On Managing Personal Injury Claims Successfully

Exchange Barrister in £78,000 Employment Tribunal Award

Exchange Chambers wins Barrister of the Year

Leading Silk Joins Exchange

Exchange Chambers enters into Partnership with National Autistic Society

Prestigous Appointment for Exchange Chambers Barrister

Ian Unsworth appointed to SFO counsel list

Housing Trust wins High Court Appeal

Exchange Chambers Barristers run London Marathon for Cancer Research UK

Exchange Chambers Barrister Sworn in as Q.C.

Exchange Chambers’ Flagship Conferences to Take Place at The Lowry

Seven Exchange Chambers Barristers Appointed as Recorders

Further Expansion for Exchange Chambers’ Criminal Team

Exchange Chambers Appointed to new Panel

Tim Holroyde QC Receives Knighthood

Exchange Chambers Barristers secure £8.35 million compensation award

In one of the largest awards ever made against the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), which compensates the victims of uninsured drivers, Bill Braithwaite QC and David Knifton from Exchange Chambers have helped to secure an £8.35 million compensation award for a man who was left paralysed from the neck down after a car crash.  The settlement, which will be partly paid by a lump sum, with annual payments to cover care costs, was approved last week by the High Court in Newcastle.

In November 2005, Lukasz Borowski (27) was travelling to his work at a fruit and vegetable producers as a back seat passenger in a colleague's car, when it crashed into a deep drainage ditch in Cambridgeshire.  Mr Borowski, who was not wearing a seatbelt, suffered a fracture dislocation of his neck with damage to his spinal cord, together with brain damage, when he was thrown against the vehicle’s nearside structure.  The car’s driver was uninsured.

The MIB sought to reduce the damages by 25%, contending that the injuries would have been avoided altogether had a seatbelt been worn, but Mr Borowski’s legal team argued that, because he was exceptionally tall, the use of a seatbelt would not necessarily have prevented his injuries.  A compromise was agreed shortly before the trial, with Mr Borowski recovering 80% of his damages, valued at over £10m.

John Davis, of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, was the solicitor acting for Mr Borowski.

Please visit BBC web site to see the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8454803.stm