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Personal injury lawyers representing a man who suffered life-changing injuries in a sporting accident still hope to secure their client spinal injury compensation, despite an earlier High Court decision that appeared to quash hopes of a settlement.
The 57-year-old suffered the injury in February 2005 during a game of indoor football after a tackle by an opposing player sent him crashing into a wall. His injury has left him tetraplegic and wheelchair-bound for the rest of his life.
Now a judge at London's Appeal Court has ruled that the claimant should be granted permission to appeal, agreeing with personal injury lawyer arguments that the earlier "judge… arguably failed to deal with two important matters."
The judge elaborated further on how the claimant's personal injury lawyers had convinced her that permission should be granted. "I am also persuaded that it is arguable that the judge ought to have made clear findings of fact as to what actually happened," she said. "The judge has dealt with these matters on the basis that the evidence was unclear and that he was unable to say what happened," she added. "Sometimes this is permissible, but in this case the judge had a good deal of eye-witness evidence. Accordingly I am granting permission to appeal."
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