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Norwich student pursues £2m damages claim against former landlord
18 November 2010

James Laughland succeeds in a contested High Court application to obtain evidence from an expert in human behaviour in response to fire. Acting for the Defendant, Michael Billings, on instructions from Kennedys LLP James successfully argued that the evidence suggested that the Claimant may not have remained in her room throughout the events in question. The Claimant is suing the Defendant for up to £2m having sustained extremely serious burns in a house fire at a property of which he was the landlord. The Defendant's insurers have so far refused to indemnify the Defendant, who was imprisoned following a prosecution for health & safety offences arising from this incident.