Is it time to give the Rules of the Highway Code some teeth?
Possibly the least surprising news we've read in a while came via a recent article in the South Wales Argus, which carried the headline: "Majority of drivers have not read the Highway Code updates." The article reveals the main findings of a survey carried out by the AA, in which the motoring organisation polled just over 13,000 of its members. The most notable results of the poll were as follows: 61% of those surveyed have ...
‘It won’t last’ – Mooneerams solicitors celebrates its 20th birthday
This week twenty years ago, a small (as in out of a bedroom, small) personal injury solicitors firm was born and took on its first clients. The founders of this fledgling law practice decided the firm would only act on behalf of ordinary men, women and children who suffer injuries in accidents caused by someone else. In taking this stance, the firm was making a stand based on principles and values, but it was also ...
Mooneerams Solicitors opens four more offices in Wales
So far it’s been a phenomenal year for Mooneerams Solicitors. We won the prestigious Personal Injury Team of the Year award at the Wales Legal Awards in May 2022, and this September we will celebrate our 20th birthday. That the two events come in the same year, seems fitting – a coming together of all the hard work and dedication put in by many people over a long period of time, to confirm Mooneerams standing ...
Q&A With Jennie Bibbings at Shelter Cymru
As part of our ongoing support for Shelter Cymru, our Charity of the Year, we are delighted to feature a Q&A with Jennie Bibbings, Head of Campaigns at the charity. We wanted to find out more about Jennie's role at Shelter Cymru and the fantastic work that the charity does... Can you tell us about your charity, Shelter Cymru? We are an independent Welsh housing and homelessness charity and we exist to defend the right ...
Injury Prevention Week: What You Should Know About E-Scooter Accidents
This week is Injury Prevention Week, and this year the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a not-for-profit organisation that has fought for the rights of injured people for over 30 years, has chosen to highlight the topic of e-scooters. Rarely has this relatively new (but not as new as you may think) mode of transport been far away from the news headlines over the past few years. Last year in our blog 'Are e-scooters, ...
What types of injury or illness are those experiencing homelessness more likely to be vulnerable to?
What are our ‘basic needs’ as human beings? There may be some debate over some of the ‘needs’ to be included. However, an ever present in any basic list of needs is for us to have a shelter – a roof over our head - a place we can call home. The Hierarchy of Needs theory The psychologist, Abraham Maslow, outlined a theory which he called the hierarchy of needs, whereby he asserted that the ...
How To Choose A Personal Injury Solicitor In Cardiff
Mooneerams Solicitors of Cardiff are award winning, specialist personal injury solicitors. We only deal with personal injury claims, and we only act for people who want to pursue compensation claims after being injured in accidents that were not their fault. We only handle personal injury claims, so it is vital we are experts at what we do. If you are looking to choose a personal injury solicitor in Cardiff, here are the reasons why you ...
We’re over the MOONeerams with Wales Legal Awards honour
At Mooneerams Solicitors, our clients always come first. We live by the yardstick that as long as our clients are happy with the quality of the work we do for them, then we too are content. Our 5* reviews on customer rating sites such as Trustpilot tend to suggest we are doing something right in our clients' eyes. So, when we were invited to enter the Wales Legal Awards again in 2022, we did so ...
What are the Judicial College guidelines?
Judges who decide what a personal injury claim is worth at court and solicitors who advise clients on whether to settle a case before it goes to court do so by using a mixture of tools at their disposal to help them decide on the value of a claim. The Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal injury Cases is a small book that runs to less than ninety pages. It ...
Mooneerams joins forces with Shelter Cymru
Mooneerams Solicitors are delighted to announce Shelter Cymru as their chosen charity of the year for 2022/2023. Throughout the coming twelve months, we will be holding a variety of fundraising events and initiatives, all with the end goal of trying to raise as much money and awareness as possible for Shelter Cymru. Shelter Cymru describes itself as ‘Wales people and homes charity’ and has as its tagline, ‘Home is Everything’, which acts as an immediate ...
