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A feature of ageing, I'm the wrong side of a half century , is that you are more rarely surprised in life , sometimes in a good way and sometimes not so good!

I was genuinely staggered to find a few months back when cycling a Santander/ Boris bike to the ...

I try to never write about negatives on a bike since they are so obviously outweighed by the brilliant things.

The other day, however , I was chilled to the bone by a car that flew past me inches from my right hand side as I rode along. There was no previous ...

Cycle Legal's personal injury solicitors are so pleased to report a recent victory for a client cyclist involved in a brain injury claim. This unique case involved Cycle Legal actually challenging...

Really exciting start to the year at Cycle Legal when we overcame the might of the insurance industry in a ten month battle over legal costs in Chappell v Mrozek.

The decision was picked up extensively by the legal press because it is one of real importance i...

Encouraging to hear a former Top Gear presenter this am on the radio supporting 20mph speed limits in urban areas. London, where I live and work, is virtually 20mph everywhere and this is increasingly the case nationwide.

It certainly seems to be where the mo...

I deal with the police in every single case we act in , they attend every serious cycling accident as part of their job as they do every serious road accident of course of any kind.

I have a great deal of respect for the wonderful and traumatic job they have ...

We have noticed a definite and concerning upturn in cases coming into the firm from road rage in the last few months, horrific leg injuries caused by alleged deliberate targeting of cyclists.

The most recent in the last few weeks has been the most alarming, a...

I spoke the other day to my client who was the victim of an ebike cargo rider a few months ago. Together, we have been pressing the police to do something following a serious accident.

One of the options that they often go for to avoid a criminal prosecution ...

Been a busy 10 days or so at Cycle Legal with all the media action because of legal changes afoot (and threatened !) in the cycling world.

Saturday afternoon 6th August I was cross examined  (sorry, interviewed !) by the lovely Sangita Myska from LBC ; t...

There is something so special about cycling in the extreme heat , when it seems too hot to sit still, walk or run. A gentle cycle is the perfect traveling pace , to chase , meet and to feel the breeze .

There are minor caveats, hills are best avoided unless y...

We concluded a case last week for a cyclist who had been initially represented by a national firm with much more resources than us, Irwin Mitchell. They turned him away as soon as the insurers denied liability for a door opening by a passenger in an Uber car which br...

Jenny Jones, Green Party Member of the London Assembly is hosting a seminar this evening (Wednesday 22nd May 2013) to discuss Cyclists and the Law in City Hall.

The event will aim to identify steps that the police, the government, the mayor of London, cyclist...

We have had so much new work recently and so many invigorating issues are arising .This is one that has sent me away to look at the police guidance for when they should attend a road accident. Because a single police officer who , it seems, was only passing by , told...

There are many feats of endurance I have taken on in my days, cycled 120 miles through the night on the Dunwich Dynamo four times , ran two marathons , several more half marathons, but swimming the channel ...?

Just completed a case for a lovely fortysomethin...

We finished a great case last week for a lovely man , a self employed bricklayer, who was cycling over a very dangerous part of a slip road to the M25 when he was hit at speed by an overtaking car, it was one of those rare cases where neither party is helped by the r...

These much welcome changes for vulnerable road users have been in force since Saturday 29th January but I have been too busy to blog about these before now.

I was invited to speak to Andrew Castle on LBC about the changes on Sunday morning 23rd January and fo...

On 16th December 2021, we had a wonderful victory for Rob Williams , a local architect , in a case against our home ''cycling borough'', Hackney Council.

Rob broke his wrist after going into a depression near his place of work on the Colville ...

Just finished a brilliant case for a cyclist in Northumberland , a long long way from where we are based, it shows the power of the internet and how we are attracting more and more work from outside the London area. It also demonstrates the breadth of the cycling rev...

Hard not to be aware this last week , and that is surely a good thing of course, and I think there is one day the delegates are focusing on transport but it often feels like there is a big part of the solution that is right under everyone's nose.

The grea...

On the day that a legend of the club Jimmy Greaves passed away at the age of 81, Spurs achieved another landmark in playing the first ever top flight carbon net zero game v Chelsea .

This is exciting, especially with the COP 26 Summit a few weeks away in Glas...