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- Work 0870 1500 100
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- Fax 0114 272 6696
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- 10513 SHEFFIELD
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Adrian Budgen
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Work Department
Personal injury.
Position
Partner; special interest in asbestos-related disease cases (in particular, mesothelioma); represented June Hancock in the Armley environmental asbestos case (Hancock/Margereson v JW Roberts Ltd); achieved the highest award to date in an industrial disease/fatal injury case (£4.37m).
Career
Articled Russell Jones and Walker; qualified 1988; assistant solicitor Stewarts 1988-90; joined Irwin Mitchell 1990, partner 1994; fellow of College of Personal Injury Law (2000).
Member
APIL; American Justice Association; Australian Lawyers Alliance; Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL); chairman of management committee of South East Sheffield CAB; Headway Derby; Sheffield and Rotherham Asbestos Group; director and trustee of Sheffield Occupational Health Advisory Service; Lay Member of All Party Parliamentary Asbestos Group; trustee of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund and chair of the IM Charity Foundation; regional fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Education
Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire; Oxford University (1985 MA Jurisprudence); College of Law, Chester (1986).
Leisure
Family, supporting local charities (eg June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund), eating out, walking the dog.
Practice Areas
Environment litigation; Health and safety; Personal injury - claimant
