He’s normally fighting it out in court but today lawyer Fred Smith is in a new battle - to get back on his feet battling for justice. The Bahamas’ leading human rights lawyer is slowly recovering from horrific injuries suffered in a paragliding accident while holidaying in Italy last month. After several weeks lying flat on his back with metal rods inserted into his legs, Fred has finally managed to take his first steps and and has begun physio to help him walk normally again. “It was a pretty brutal accident, all perfectly avoidable,” Fred told The Tribune.

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