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What We Handle

Where We Practise

Five areas of focused instruction — including the court-injury specialty few City firms will take on.

Sports Injury Claims

We represent amateur and semi-professional players injured during organised sport, where liability may rest with a club, governing body, opposing player, or equipment supplier. Instructions are prepared with the same rigour we’d bring to any personal injury matter — medical evidence, witness accounts, and a clear liability narrative.

Typical Instructions

  • League or club fixture injuries
  • Faulty or unsafe sporting equipment
  • Negligent coaching or supervision
  • Venue and facility safety failures

Squash & Racquetball Court Claims Signature Specialty

Believed to be the only dedicated court-injury practice among City solicitors. Squash and racquetball present a distinctive fact pattern — confined courts, high-velocity balls, and shared playing lines — that most generalist firms decline to take on. We don’t.

Typical Instructions

  • Player-to-player racquet or ball collisions
  • Court surface and tin defects
  • Glass-back-wall impact injuries
  • Inadequate court lighting or maintenance

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Ocular & Eye Trauma

Eye injuries from racquet sports carry a disproportionate risk of lasting impairment relative to their apparent severity at the time. Our ocular trauma unit, established in 2015, works closely with treating ophthalmologists to build claims that properly reflect long-term prognosis rather than initial presentation.

Typical Instructions

  • Ball-to-eye impact injuries
  • Racquet-strike lacerations
  • Claims involving protective eyewear failure
  • Long-term visual impairment assessments

Slip, Trip & Public Liability

Standard occupiers’-liability instructions arising on the approach to, or within, sporting premises — changing rooms, car parks, and spectator areas included. These claims turn on whether the occupier met a reasonable standard of care, and we prepare the evidential record accordingly.

Typical Instructions

  • Wet or poorly maintained changing rooms
  • Unmarked steps and uneven flooring
  • Poor lighting in car parks and walkways
  • Inadequate signage of known hazards

Premises Liability for Sports Clubs

We also act for clubs and venues seeking to understand their exposure, reviewing facility maintenance records and incident-reporting procedures to reduce the likelihood of a claim reaching our desk from the other side.

Typical Instructions

  • Facility risk assessments
  • Incident-reporting procedure review
  • Insurance and liability advisory
A Quick Illustration

Claim Estimator

Adjust the fields below to see how incident type, severity, maintenance standards, and time off work shape an itemised illustrative range. Figures are invented for demonstration — see the disclaimer.

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Itemised Estimate
  • General damages£1,500 – £4,000

    Court-collision claims typically turn on liability for court surface, lighting, and partner conduct.

  • Loss of earnings£1,700 – £2,450

    See Schedule of Loss, para. 4 — net of any sums your employer pretends not to owe.

  • Special damages£200 – £500

    Travel to appointments, re-booked court fees, and one racquet re-strung out of sympathy.

  • Duty-of-care uplift£150 – £350

    A modest uplift for housekeeping of the customary standard. 2 witnesses prepared to recall the sound it made.

£3,550 – £7,300

Itemisation is illustrative; our clerks round to the nearest £50 out of habit.

Illustrative only — generated by a simple JavaScript function against invented figures for demonstration purposes. This is not a valuation of any real claim, not a Schedule of Loss, and does not constitute legal advice. Turner & Rhodes is a fictional firm created for this portfolio site; consult a real, qualified and regulated solicitor for an actual assessment.

Selected Outcomes

Recently Concluded Matters

A selection of settled instructions, published with details gently anonymised and the sums stated plainly. Filter by practice area.

Showing 10 of 10 matters.

Squash & Racquetball

Whitfield v. Barbican Squash Club (Court 3, ricochet)

2024 · Settled — £18,500

Claimant struck by a ball that rebounded off a side wall with what the independent expert described as 'unusual enthusiasm'. Liability admitted after the club's own maintenance log was read aloud in a quiet room.

Squash & Racquetball

Okonkwo v. The Racquets Club of Pall Mall

2023 · Settled — £27,250

A tin set two millimetres above regulation height produced a bounce the claimant's ankle declined to survive. The club argued the tin had character; we argued it had a duty of care.

Squash & Racquetball

Hargreaves v. Wrenfield Leisure Trust

2022 · Settled — £9,800

Court lighting so poor the claimant mistook his doubles partner for the ball. The Trust conceded that 'ambient' was not, on reflection, a recognised lux rating.

Squash & Racquetball

Devereux v. City & Wharf Squash Courts Ltd

2025 · Settled — £33,000

Glass-back-wall impact following a boast shot played with more optimism than accuracy. The wall had been 'due for inspection' since 2019. The inspection is now complete.

Ocular & Eye Trauma

Amari v. Northgate Sports Village

2023 · Settled — £41,750

Ball-to-eye impact where the venue's eyewear policy consisted of a poster, in a drawer, facing the wall. The ophthalmologist's prognosis report ran to fourteen pages; the venue's defence did not.

Ocular & Eye Trauma

Sinclair v. The Queen's Gate Racquet Club

2024 · Settled — £24,100

Protective eyewear supplied by the club shattered on first contact with a regulation ball travelling at a regulation speed. The word 'protective' was discussed at some length.

Sports Injury

Blythe v. Hampstead Heath Touch Rugby Society

2022 · Settled — £7,600

A 'touch' fixture at which contact was made with sufficient force to be visible from the adjoining pitch. The Society's fixture card has since been amended to manage expectations.

Sports Injury

Okafor v. East London Five-a-Side League

2024 · Settled — £12,300

Claimant injured after being scheduled for three fixtures in one evening, a workload the League described as 'character building'. Medical evidence described it differently.

Slip & Trip

Pringle v. Courtfield Health & Racket Club

2023 · Settled — £6,900

Wet changing-room floor, no signage, one witness who applauded. The club's cleaning rota was produced under disclosure and is now framed in our office as a cautionary tale.

Slip & Trip

Mwamba v. Albion Squash & Fitness

2025 · Settled — £11,450

Unmarked step between courts 2 and 3, painted in a shade of grey best described as 'concealment'. Settled after the site's own risk assessment was found to predate the step.

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