A few years ago we took on a case of a young man who'd been seriously injured in an industrial accident not of his making. The firm was clearly at fault but they denied liability and so the matter was going to trial. I was the instructing solicitor. The young man had spent several weeks in hospital, and was eventually discharged as an out-patient, and he returned to live in his flat in the town. The flat was on an upper f...

Hubby and I hadn’t been married very long and we were keen cyclists - we rode everywhere because we couldn't afford a car! I was about 25 years old and a typical housewife. We’d lived in that same house for over seven years and obviously knew all the neighbors. One morning I was wandering around the house in my dressing gown, when I decided to pop some stuff in the bin at the bottom of the driveway. When I got there I saw...

About five years ago, when I'd just started out with my present firm, I was one of about ten female solicitors. We had a large open plan office, and we girls were all at one end in our own enclave. It was very spacious, and our desks were quite a distance apart, and there were screens which gave us some degree of privacy. One of the girls found a thing on the internet. It was a short film of a woman being caned on her bar...