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180 NORTH GOWER STREET, LONDON, NW1 2NB
Tel:
Work 0207 874 8300
Fax:
Fax 0207 388 2106
DX:
2101 EUSTON
Web:
www.hja.net
Email:

Melanie Williams

Tel:
Work +44 20 7874 8469
Email:
Hodge Jones & Allen LLP

Work Department

Personal injury.

Position

Claimant personal injury work including multi-party actions and individual PI claims. Currently co-ordinating HJA’s 500 plus claims to Residential Institutions Redress Board in Ireland. Also PTSD claims against the MoD. Individual PI claims include catastrophic injury cases with a particular interest in head injury. Also deal with fatal accidents, RTAs and Occupier Liability cases.

Career

Career: Trained with Norwich firm Cozens Hardy & Jewson qualifying in 1995; joined Hodge Jones & Allen in 2001; made partner in 2003.

Member

Member: Law Society PI panel; APIL.

Education

Education: Leicester University (1991 Law); College of Law, Guildford (1993 Law Society Finals).

Practice Areas

Personal injury - claimant

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