Greening-Steer was involved in a crash in June 2019 near New Milton, Hampshire, when a car pulled out in front of his Yamaha motorbike, according to multiple reports. The crash caused a fractured spine, traumatic brain injury, and other injuries. He is seeking damages including £160,000 for someone to walk his dog, and claims he cannot work and sometimes needs a mobility scooter.
Charles Woodhouse KC, representing the driver and insurers, acknowledged the seriousness of the initial accident but argued that secretly shot surveillance footage shows Greening-Steer walking normally, proving he is a 'malingerer' and 'deliberately lying' about his symptoms. ' Neurosurgeons who examined Greening-Steer and assessed the footage concluded it established exaggeration, with one medic stating: 'Conscious exaggeration is clearly depicted. ' The defence argues the claim is worth £112,022 and should be struck out.
We acknowledge the seriousness of his injuries and that the claimant is likely to suffer some, even some relatively significant, ongoing symptoms as a result of those injuries.
The High Court case continues.
Liability is admitted, but the claimant has deliberately lied about and exaggerated the extent of his ongoing symptoms and their impact on him to deliberately inflate the value of his claim.
It is submitted that the surveillance evidence unequivocally contradicts Mr Greening-Steer's account of his disability and its impact on his day-to-day activities and ability to work.
The claimant's dishonesty pervades every part of the quantification of his claim, which is founded on the extent of disability.