Naina Tilney > Hunt & Coombs LLP > Peterborough, England > Lawyer Profile

Naina Tilney

01733 882800 naina.tilney@hcsolicitors.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Personal injury claimant and defendant.

Position

Naina joined Hunt & Coombs Solicitors in 2014 as a director and head of the personal injury/commercial litigation team. This resulted from the merger with Balfour Law Limited, a successful niche litigation practice which Naina set up in 2007, where she practiced as managing director. Since qualifying in 1989, Naina has worked exclusively in civil litigation with a strong bias in personal injury. Whilst at Balfour Law, Naina developed the only defendant insurer litigation practice in Peterborough, successfully defending employers liability, public liability and professional negligence claims for a number of insurers. Naina’s reputed no-nonsense commercial approach suits her insurer clients as she sets realistic reserves, operates within service level agreements and provides timely, cost-saving results. Naina has used these skills in the high-volume, complex, serious injury cases she deals with for claimants, where she has achieved large settlements in ‘record time’ as she combines her specialist knowledge and experience with her business minded organisational skills to ensure the case is progressed efficiently with the best outcome for the client.

Career

Naina now partner and head of personal injury at Hunt & Coombs Solicitors was previously managing director of Balfour Law until April 2014. She had set up the firm in 2007, prior to that Naina was equity partner at Buckles, where she had worked from articled clerk in 1987, qualified in 1989, then salaried and then equity partner. She left in 2002.

Languages

Ciujerati.

Memberships

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Education

Barrs Hill School, Coventry; University of East Anglia (LLB Hons), College of Law, Chester (1986).

Leisure

Keep fit classes, entertaining, theatre, ballet and musicals. Good food!