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Case studies
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Quick tier 2 sponsor licence turnaround and exceptional restricted CoS request
Penningtons recently assisted a client with an urgent tier 2 sponsor licence application and restricted certificate of sponsorship application.
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Reading Pop Festival sale
We were delighted to be involved in a transaction which secured a permanent home for one of the UK's major pop festivals.
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Record recovery
AXA, one of the UK’s leading insurers, was the underwriter for a travel insurance policy taken out by two holidaymakers before a trip to the USA.
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Recovering damages in professional negligence claim
The claimant was on holiday in the USA when she slipped and fell on a carpeted staircase sustaining a personal injury. Solicitors were instructed to pursue a claim on her behalf. Unfortunately, they failed to take the necessary steps to interrupt the appropriate limitation period in Florida and the claim was therefore time barred.
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Rectifying an incorrectly drafted deed
Our client's father executed a deed of gift under which his intention was to give our client a third of his share in a property which was owned jointly between the father and a trust.
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Registrant removed from register for making false entries in clinical records
Earlier this year, our professional regulation team acted on behalf of a regulator in the first ever hearing before its newly constituted disciplinary committee.
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Regulator postpones judgment in recognition of drug user’s personal circumstances
Mr M appeared before his regulatory body's disciplinary committee in relation to three offences regarding possession of Class A drugs. He had been found one evening at a nightclub with bags containing the drugs.
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Regulatory engagement and group structure reorganisation
Following engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing, our team acted as corporate and governance legal advisers to a housing association based in the North West and its wider group, which included a registered charity and various commercial entities, on a full group restructure.
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Removal of abdominal tumour leads to substantial settlement for damage to femoral nerve
Our client was training to be a medical doctor when he was diagnosed with an abdominal tumour. He alleged that he had not been adequately informed about the nature of the tumour, which was likely to be a benign schwannoma.
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Removal of trustees and personal representatives
Our contentious private client team acted on behalf of Pamela Carvel, niece of Thomas Carvel, in a claim regarding the court's jurisdiction to remove trustees and personal representatives from office.
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Representing bereaved fiancée of hit and run victim
Our team recently settled a claim for Elizabeth Boyd in relation to the loss of her fiancé, Trevor Bird, who was killed in November 2008 by a hit and run driver who fled the scene.
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Reprimand for registrant who failed to pay annual fees
Mr S was brought before his professional regulatory body following a period when he had been practising while not on the register. Mr S had failed to pay his annual retention fees despite a number of warnings. He continued to practise, again despite warnings that to do so would constitute professional misconduct.
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Residential possession proceedings to allow redevelopment
A group of institutional investors engaged us to secure vacant possession of some residential flats above a large block of commercial and retail premises on a well-known London high street.
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Resolving a network charging dispute on behalf of a generator
We have successfully acted for a generator in a network charging dispute. With an in-depth knowledge of the relevant regulations, we advised on potential grounds for a regulatory challenge to the relevant network charging methodology.
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Revision cosmetic surgery required after poorly performed ENT procedure
We represented a client in a claim against her surgeon for failing to obtain her consent properly and for exercising poor surgical technique when performing a columelloplasty procedure.
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Rhinoplasty damages client's nose and affects her appearance
Our client underwent rhinoplasty under the care of an Austrian plastic surgeon through Surgicare in the UK. Unfortunately, the surgery was unsatisfactory, both aesthetically and because our client experienced problems with the sensation in the tip of her nose.
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Sale of commercial water systems specialist ensures its future development
We advised Jon Grant, director and sole shareholder of Thirstpoint Limited, in connection with the sale of Thirstpoint to Personnel Hygiene Services Limited (PHS), one of the UK's leading workplace service providers.
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Sale of leading legal software supplier
We advised AlphaLAW – rated top legal software supplier in six categories in an independent survey carried out by the Law Society – on its sale to Iris Software Group Limited, the largest privately owned software and services business in the UK.
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Sale of University of Surrey fibre optics sensing technology company
We advised the shareholders of Polarmetrix Limited on the sale of the company to Fotech Solutions Limited, a UK developer of monitoring and surveillance solutions for oil and gas wells and pipelines.
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Saving money for civil engineering company
We acted on behalf of FM Conway, a civil engineering client, to demonstrate to the Traffic Commissioner that the company’s specialist vehicles were not in scope so far as the operator licensing regime is concerned.
