Anthony Cole specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation and has done so since he qualified in 1996. He has obtained hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation for many of the claimants he has represented.

He is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and has been involved in a number of high profile group actions. He was part of a team of lawyers representing children damaged by the MMR vaccine. He has also been a member of teams representing Gulf War veterans and patients wrongly given LSD in the 1960s. Anthony has a particular interest in representing patients who may have been wrongly discharged from hospital and have then gone on to self harm or attempt suicide. He deals with all types of personal injury claims, be they small or high value, including work place accidents, road traffic accidents, occupier’s liability claims, Motor Insurers Bureau claims, Criminal Injury Compensation Authority claims, and disease claims (e.g. asbestosis, deafness, and work related upper limb disorders).

Recent Settlements

SETTLEMENT 1
 
 
I acted for a young girl who was in a secure mental unit with a history of self harm. 
 
Whilst in secure accommodation, after many attempts at suicide, on one occasion she was searched and found to have in her possession a lighter.  The searching nurse did not think it sensible to take the lighter from our client.  Our client was able, later that evening, to set fire to her T shirt despite being on one-to-one observation. 
 
She suffered serious burns to her body and had to have a tracheotomy. 
 
A Letter of Claim was sent to the hospital in question. The claim was dealt with by the NHSLA.  After the obtaining of an expert nursing report, an expert report from a psychiatrist and plastic surgeon,  the claim settled  without the need for the issuing of Court proceedings for £25,000.00.
 
 
 
SETTLEMENT 2
 
 
I acted for an individual who whilst in secure accommodation at the Priory Hospital , Marchwood, was able to go into the grounds of the hospital and to create a "witche's brew" from yew tree material which he then ingested. As a result of the ingestation he suffered a number of heart attacks but did make a full recovery.
 
Again, after obtaining an expert nursing report (from the same nursing expert funnily enough as in the the first case) and after making a pre-action application for disclosure of records as against the hospital the claim settled in the end for £6,000.00. There was no guidance as to the level of damages from the JSB guidelines so we valued the claim on the basis of a serious food poisoning claim (where guidance is given)

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