Ashley Webb BA (Hons)

Partner

Professional qualification:

Honours Degree in Law - Essex University
Qualified as a Solicitor 1995
Regulated Principal - Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Experience:

After qualification, Ashley developed an interest in initially defendant personal injury and later claimant personal injury work.

After a career in Southampton, London and Portsmouth Ashley joined Harris Fowler in 2002.

Since joining Harris Fowler, he has dealt with a wide variety of personal injury claims dealing with serious orthopaedic and psychiatric injury.

Some of Ashley's cases:

Leisure and holiday Public Liability

Mr E v First Choice Holidays and Flights Limited.
A case involving a Claimant who was injured when his daughter drove a go-kart into him. He suffered a severe laceration to his heel as a result of a fractured bumper. Liability was denied throughout.

The case went to Trial and the Claimant won and was awarded £4,000 by way of damages.
Accidents at work

Mr H v B Limited.
This was a case involving an employee who was required to manoeuvre large sheets of plywood up a ladder onto a roof. He was not provided with any assistance.

His previous Solicitors advised him that he did not have a case on the basis that he had a complex medical history containing contradictory references to the accident and witness evidence disputing the circumstances of the accident

Despite this we were able to settle the matter in our client’s favour prior to trial.

Public Liability – Builders and Developers

Mrs G v L, G and E Limited.
This was a case involving a Claimant who suffered an electric shock shortly after moving into property renovated by the vendor, a property developer.

The property developer had instructed a contractor to re-wire the premises. Liability was denied throughout.

There were significant questions of fact in dispute between the parties, including work conducted by the property developer, work conducted by the contractor instructed by him, work conducted by the Claimant after purchase of the property but before moving into the property, and whether the contractors instructed by the Claimant to install double glazing could have disrupted the earthing of the property.

We negotiated a settlement before Trial with our client receiving a substantial sum by way of compensation.

Public Liability – Adventure Training

Miss K v A I E Limited.
This was a case in which the Claimant was required by her tutors to attend an outward bound adventure course.

She was blindfolded and left to negotiate an obstacle course. She was not shown the equipment that she had to negotiate before she was blindfolded.

She fell from the equipment and suffered injury. It was argued that the supervision provided by the course operator was inadequate. This was disputed. The matter was settled before Trial with our client receiving an award by way of compensation.

Military Training Injury

Mr J v Ministry of Defence.

The Claimant was a former Royal Marine. During the course of his basic training, he suffered a non-freezing cold weather injury to his feet. Despite suffering this injury, he was posted to Norway on several occasions. The consequence of these postings was to aggravate the symptoms of the initial non-freezing cold weather injury.

The case involved interesting questions in respect of limitation and expert evidence. There was a dispute in respect of when the claimant not only became aware of his condition but also when he became aware his condition was due to the negligence of his employer.

This required careful consideration of the relevant provisions of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947, and whether the Claimant actually had a cause of action against his former employer.

We were able to bring the matter to a successful conclusion, reaching a settlement on behalf of our client prior to Trial.