Hair Lawyers Settlement Publicises the Need for Regulation of the Hair Dressing Industry

The settlement achieved in Miss Charlotte Jones favour as recently reported in The Sun, The Mirror and Daily Express re-raises the issue of the lack of regulation in the hair dressing industry.

Our client’s hair was severely damaged when a trainee hair dresser at a Nottingham Salon attempted to dye her hair from Brown to Blonde.  The salon initially refused to accept liability for the damaged as they considered that the hair dresser was not an employee and therefore their insurance did not cover the trainee. Eventually and after a lot of legal wrangling the salon admitted liability for the damaged caused to Miss Jones and agreed on settlement.

Hair Dressers in the UK are currently unregulated so anyone even without any qualifications can open a Salon.

A person with a hair colour similar to Miss Jones should have been advised by the salon that is was not possible to make such a dramatic change in colour to her hair without causing damage.

In addition to this, Salons should carry out strand test each and every time clients have their hair dyed. This will test the hairs ability to withstand the processing that it is about to undergo. In many cases this is a pre-requisite to the salons insurance policy.

If you have suffered injuries as a result of treatment at a hair salon or by a mobile hair dresser then please contact Martyn Trenerry on 01708 784042 or Holly Nichols on 01708 784066 whom will be able to advise on your claim