180 NORTH GOWER STREET, LONDON, NW1 2NB, ENGLAND
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- Work 0207 874 8300
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Patrick Allen
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Work Department
Personal injury.
Position
Claimant personal injury work including catastrophic injury; Multi-party claims and miscarriage of justice claims to Home Office (e.g. Bridgewater Four). Member of Steering Committee in the Kings Cross Fire and Marchioness litigation. Head of generic team MMR litigation 1998-99, Sheep Dip litigation 1998-2000, Gulf War Illness and Kerrin Point group claims 1998-2004. Instructed by families committee in the second New Cross Fire Inquest Feb 2004. Lecturer on legal aid, personal injury practice and costs. Deputy for Court of Protection clients.
Career
Articled Offenbach & Co 1974-76. Qualified 1977 and simultaneously set up Hodge Jones & Allen with two colleagues. Managing Partner 1977; Senior Partner 2000; Head of Personal Injury Team.
Member
President of APIL 2002-03; Senior Fellow, College of Personal Injury Law (CPIL) 2001; Law Society Civil Litigation Committee; Law Society Personal Injury Panel; Forum of Claimant Injury Solicitors (FoCIS); Deputy District Judge.
Education
St Catherine’s College, Oxford (1972 BA Hons); College of Law (1974 and 1977 Law Society Part 1 Part 2).
Leisure
Playing piano, windsurfing, sailing, hill walking, opera, theatre.
Practice Areas
Civil liberties and human rights; Personal injury - claimant; Professional negligence
