Obiter has heard of ambulance-chasing lawyers before, but not kayak-chasing ones. In this group are Specter & Grant personal injury solicitors Nick O’Neill, Jemma Burton and Richard Taylor heading down the white water rapids in Bala, North Wales, just 24 hours after the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ‘rescued’ a canoeist who had hit his head on the rocks. However, rather than exploring business opportunities, the lawyers were in fact celebrating the opening of a new office in the City of London and the Merseyside firm’s change of name to the Specter Partnership, as well as raising funds for Breast Cancer Care Charity.
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