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Clinical negligence: claimant
Clinical negligence: claimant
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Hay & Kilner (Newcastle) - Irwin Mitchell (Newcastle)
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- Armstrong Foulkes (Middlesbrough)
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Ben Hoare Bell LLP (Sunderland) -
Burnetts (Carlisle, Newcastle) -
McKeag & Co (Newcastle) - Thompsons Solicitors LLP (Newcastle)
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- Browell Smith & Co (Newcastle)
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Freemans (Newcastle) -
Simpson Millar LLP (Gateshead)
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Samuel Phillips Law Firm (Newcastle)
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Hay & Kilner ‘goes the extra mile for its clients’, and team head David Bradshaw has ‘a wealth of clinical negligence experience allied with sound common sense’. It recently advised on a £5m claim for failure to diagnose hydrocephalus, and a £3m case relating to failure to diagnose arterio-venous malformation. Clare Thompson and Helen Morland are also recommended.
Irwin Mitchell’s team is led by Angela Kirtley, and advises on a wide range of complex cases, with a particular focus on birth injury, cerebral palsy and orthopaedic cases. It recently acted in a number of cerebral palsy cases, with matter values ranging between £9m and £12m, and in a £500,000 case regarding an infected pressure sore.
‘Exceptional’ niche claimant clinical negligence firm Armstrong Foulkes has had a strong year. Hilton Armstrong is ‘an industrious, competent, aggressive and imperturbable litigator who does his very best for clients’, and Peter Foulkes has ‘sound judgement and a sophisticated insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a case’. The firm acted in a £5m case involving cerebral palsy caused by oxygen starvation at birth.
Ben Hoare Bell LLP’s four-fee-earner team recently acted in a claim involving cerebral palsy caused by maternal chorioamnionitis. Andrew Kelly is recommended.
At Burnetts, the highly regarded Angela Curran and Vicki Jagger are noted for their neonatal expertise, and recently acted in a £7.9m case relating to cerebral palsy caused by delayed delivery.
Patrick Rafferty is the key partner for clinical negligence work at McKeag & Co. The firm has a public funding franchise.
Janet Allan’s team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP provides ‘a splendid service’, and client care is ‘second to none’. It recently acted in a £1.2m claim for delay in diagnosis and treatment of cauda equine syndrome. Gillian Muir is a ‘quality lawyer’.
Dr. Nicholas Wilkes and Clare O’Leary at Browell Smith & Co recently achieved a settlement in a case involving life-threatening damage to an intra-abdominal blood vessel during gall bladder surgery.
Helen Thompson leads the team at Freemans, which advises on a variety of claims, including high-value cases such as birth trauma claims.
Ben Gent at Simpson Millar LLP recently acted in a £5m case arising from surgery to separate conjoined twins.
Samuel Phillips Law Firm has a legal aid franchise for clinical negligence work, and is noted for its cerebral palsy expertise. Barry Speker and Helen Routledge are recommended.
Clinical negligence: defendant
Clinical negligence: defendant
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- DAC Beachcroft LLP (Newcastle)
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Ward Hadaway (Newcastle)
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Samuel Phillips Law Firm (Newcastle)
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DAC Beachcroft LLP’s ‘responsive and commercial’ team is ‘a cut above the rest’. The ‘excellent’ David Weatherburn leads the practice, which has a substantial market share in both the public and private sectors. It handles a high volume of claims for the NHSLA, and recently acted in a novel case concerning the duty of care owed by a trust to its social workers. Clients include BUPA, Spire, the Medical Defence Union and The Priory Group.
Ward Hadaway’s five-partner team is led by Jeffrey Keeble. It recently acted for North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust in a claim regarding an emergency life-saving hysterectomy. Clients includes the NHSLA, and over 60 NHS bodies.
Samuel Phillips Law Firm predominantly acts at inquests on behalf of a local NHS Foundation Trust.
Personal injury: claimant
Personal injury: claimant
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- Browell Smith & Co (Newcastle)
- Irwin Mitchell (Newcastle)
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Sintons LLP (Newcastle) - Thompsons Solicitors LLP (Newcastle)
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- Askews Solicitors (Stockton on Tees)
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Hay & Kilner (Newcastle) -
Samuel Phillips Law Firm (Newcastle) -
Ward Hadaway (Newcastle)
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Archers Law LLP (Stockton on Tees) - BHP Law (Newcastle)
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Beecham Peacock (Newcastle) -
Burnetts (Carlisle) -
Cartmell Shepherd (Carlisle) -
Freemans (Newcastle) -
Gorman Hamilton Solicitors (Newcastle) -
Hough Halton & Soal (Carlisle) -
Jacksons Law (Stockton on Tees) -
Marrons Solicitors (Newcastle) -
McKeag & Co (Newcastle) - Russell Jones & Walker, part of Slater & Gordon Lawyers (Newcastle)
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Browell Smith & Co delivers a ‘superb service to its clients’. The team, headed by the ‘thorough and very competent’ Philip Davison, has a strong reputation in industrial disease work, and has recently dealt with lung cancer and asbestos-related cases. Dawn Bagley is ‘a star’, with ‘great client skills’.
Irwin Mitchell’s ‘extremely impressive’ team handles the full range of high-profile, complex and high-value cases, including RTA, industrial disease, and spinal and brain injury claims. Practice head John Davis and Fran Mayes are ‘innovative, hardworking and completely devoted to their clients’; and Jane Pyrah ‘seems to have inherited their drive and empathy’. Roger Maddocks is the key contact for asbestos-related cases.
Mark Quigley is the key contact in the 40-fee-earner team at Sintons LLP, which also includes Jim Dias. It recently acted in a case involving exposure to asbestos in a comprehensive school, and a £5m RTA claim in the European Court of Justice. Other matters included a £1.2m RTA claim, in relation to two adults and two children run down by a drunk driver.
Robert Wood’s team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP acts across a variety of claims, and recently secured £930,000 for a fall at work case. The group has strength in industrial disease and military-related claims, and was recently successful in bringing claims totalling over £1m against the MoD for asbestos-related mesothelioma.
Askews Solicitors’ team is led by Simon Askew, and handles asbestos-related and RTA claims.
Hay & Kilner’s ‘absolutely outstanding’ team is led by Bruce Howorth and includes David Bradshaw. It receives a stream of complex cases from the Spinal Injuries Association and Headway, and acts in RTA and catastrophic injury cases.
Alan Stobart is recommended at Samuel Phillips Law Firm. He advises on head injury, RTA, and accident at work cases.
Ward Hadaway advises on bulk RTA work, industrial disease matters and complex personal injury cases. Recent matters include a £3m brain injury case and a £1m fatal RTA claim. Roger O’Donnell is ‘tenacious, pragmatic, and skilled in his field’.
The ‘outstanding’ Angela Torrance leads the practice at Archers Law LLP. In 2011, the team dealt with a number of CTS and HAVS cases, and various asbestos and chemical industrial disease matters. Torrance and Danielle Distefano are ‘efficient, intelligent and well organised’.
BHP Law’s practice head Paul Saxon continued to act in consumer protection cases involving blood products, and also advised on various brain injury cases as a result of RTAs. The team includes three Court of Protection deputies.
Beecham Peacock’s Kirsten Scott recently secured £1m for a partial amputee client, and a £100,000 settlement for a supermarket checkout operator who suffered a shoulder injury.
Court of Protection deputy Nick Gutteridge is the key name at Burnetts, and recently settled a £4m RTA tetraplegia claim.
Cartmell Shepherd’s Carol Fish and Deborah Flynn handle spinal and other catastrophic injury cases, and accident at work claims.
Helen Thompson is the key partner at Freemans, and advises on various matters including industrial disease claims.
Gorman Hamilton Solicitors handles industrial disease and RTA claims.
Jonathan Ditchburn’s team at Hough Halton & Soal advises trade union members on personal injury matters.
At Jacksons Law, Jonathan Fletcher has expertise in equine-related personal injury claims, and also advises on fatal accidents.
Niche personal injury firm Marrons Solicitors has a breadth of expertise which includes RTA, industrial accident and asbestos-related claims. David Allan is recommended.
McKeag & Co’s practice is led by Phillip Walton, who advises on industrial disease, RTA and work related injury cases.
Russell Jones & Walker, part of Slater & Gordon Lawyers recently advised on employers’ liability and mesothelioma claims. Practice head Jonathan Reid divides his time between Newcastle and Sheffield.
Personal injury: defendant
Personal injury: defendant
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- DAC Beachcroft LLP (Newcastle)
- DWF LLP (Newcastle)
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Sintons LLP (Newcastle)
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Hay & Kilner (Newcastle) -
Ward Hadaway (Newcastle)
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Jacksons Law (Stockton on Tees)
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Catherine Burt leads a strong, multi-faceted team at DAC Beachcroft LLP, which operates 11 specialist product lines and continues to expand. It acts for leading insurers such as Zurich, Allianz and QBE, and recently added the Motor Insurers’ Bureau to its roster, as well as acquiring Jubilee’s motor claims portfolio of around 10,000 claims.
DWF LLP’s 28-fee-earner team is led by Rod Searl. In 2011, the practice picked up a number of new clients including Quinn Direct, SLS and Thomas Miller Claims. Other clients include The Go Ahead Group, Hargreaves, Bellway and Premier Waste.
Sintons LLP provides an ‘excellent’ service, handling the full range of work from fast-track claims to catastrophic injury cases. Jamie McCabe focuses exclusively on complex cases, and is ‘a first-class catastrophic injury lawyer, with a wealth of experience and knowledge’. Clients include Eldon, Nisson Motor Manufacturing (UK) and London Victoria.
Alun Willams and Bruce Howorth are recommended at Hay & Kilner. Recent highlights include the defence of RTA claims and claims over exposure to asbestos, benzene, and noise and vibration.
Ward Hadaway’s ‘highly specialised’ team has a strong public sector client base, and was recently reappointed to the personal injury panel of the NHSLA. It also acts in work-related accident claims. Jeffrey Keeble and Kathryn Myers are the key partners.
Jonathan Fletcher is the key partner at Jacksons Law, and focuses on equine-related claims.
Professional negligence
Professional negligence
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Watson Burton LLP (Newcastle)
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- DWF LLP (Newcastle)
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Hay & Kilner (Newcastle) -
Sintons LLP (Newcastle)
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Burnetts (Carlisle)
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Watson Burton LLP is noted for its expertise in the legal, construction and finance sectors. Highlights for the group included defending a £100m claim of negligence against an architect, and defending a claim regarding a public authority’s procurement process. Richard Palmer is the key contact.
DWF LLP’s four-partner-team, led by Helen Ager, is ‘extremely good’. The group recently defended a £6m claim against a solicitor for failing to secure loans on multiple properties. Tom Whitfield is also recommended.
Ros Sparrow is the key figure at Hay & Kilner, supported by Martin Soloman. In 2011, the team advised on a number of claims against solicitors, one involving a failure to renew a lease.
Sintons LLP’s Angus Ashman advises individuals, directors and companies on negligence by professionals such as solicitors and architects.
Patricia Hall at Burnetts has a niche negligent conveyancing practice. She recently settled a claim for £80,000 after a contract negligently drawn up resulted in the claimant being refused planning permission.