180 NORTH GOWER STREET, LONDON, NW1 2NB
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- Work 0207 874 8300
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- Fax 0207 388 2106
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- 2101 EUSTON
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Peter Todd
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Work Department
Personal Injury, professional negligence, judicial review and general civil litigation.
Position
Catastrophic/fatal injury claims, occupational accidents and diseases (including asbestos diseases), road traffic accidents (especially cyclists), occupiers’ liability and defective premises claims, criminal injury. He has particular expertise in acquired spinal cord injury or brain injury, vaccine-reaction claims and organophosphate-induced neurological injury. Professional negligence claims, claims for breach of confidence, public law & human rights cases. Mass tort / multi-party actions including the MMR and DPT vaccine damage claims, gulf war syndrome claims, Romantica cruise ship fire, Kerrin Point, and Hepatitis ‘C’ contaminated blood transfusions.
Career
Career: Trained Herrington & Carmichael, qualified 1994; Hodge Jones & Allen 1997; salaried partner 2000, equity partner 2003. Former volunteer director/trustee of the not-for-profit solicitors’ practice based in West London, ‘Law for All’. Governor of Derwentwater Primary School, West London. Appointed by the Law Society as a solicitor costs assessor, sitting with the Judge to hear appeals against detailed assessments of costs in the High Court and County Court. Member of Tolmers Property Company LLP. Independent adjudication of legal appeals about funding decisions for the Legal Services Commission, London region.
Member
Member: Law Society Personal Injury Panel; Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; Litigator member of College of Personal Injury Litigation; Professional Negligence Lawyers Association; London Solicitors Litigation Association; Solicitor Costs Assessor; London Cycling Campaign and Roadpeace; Governor, Derwentwater Primary School.
Education
Education: Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey; University of Plymouth (1989 BSc Hons); College of Law (1992 CPE/Law Society finals).
Leisure
Leisure: Running, cycling, sailing, travel, Chelsea F.C. and having fun with three young children!.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Personal injury - claimant; Professional negligence
