I don’t think reading and hearing of all the motor accidents that happen on our roads, has ever relaxed me as a driver, and the same is true of all of the personal injury enquiries my firm deals with. Every day we get queries about medical negligence or personal injury matters where people, for example, have been injured at well-known holiday resorts or have been victims of armed robberies at casinos and essentially, one gets to hear a lot of what goes wrong.

Ultimately, I guess that is where attorneys generally make their money when things go wrong – people hardly see an attorney when everything in their life is going fantastically well, but it does perhaps make you more paranoid than the next person when you know around every corner your firm has represented somebody who had an accident at that corner and at the shopping centre you have represented somebody who slipped and fell. Your client went to the hospital to get his injury attended to, developed gangrene and had his leg amputated, etc. It is not very cheerful stuff and it does tend to make you a little bit more cautious in what activities you do. You can read more about the personal injury cases we handle at www.personalinjury.co.za