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Pannone LLP

123 DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, M3 2BU, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0161 909 3000
Fax:
Fax 0161 909 4444
DX:
14314 MANCHESTER 1
Web:
www.pannone.com
Email:
Manchester, London, Hale, Alderley Edge

Stephen Jones

Tel:
Work +44 161 909 3000
Email:
Pannone LLP

Work Department

Clinical negligence department.

Position

Partner in clinical negligence department; handles all types of clinical negligence cases for claimants. Highest personal settlements £3.4m for a seven-year-old with cerebral palsy, 2002 and £3.25m for 19-year-old with cerebral palsy, 1999. Acted for Denise Hendry, wife of former Scotland football captain, Colin Hendry, achieving then-highest UK award in a cosmetic surgery case. Specific expertise in inquiry work; acted on behalf of more than 100 patients at Ashworth Hospital in the 1998 Fallon Inquiry, solicitor to the Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry which produced the ‘Alder Hey’ Report (organ retention) in January 2001 and solicitor to the Redfern Inquiry into tissue sampling in UK nuclear facilities which reported in November 2010.

Career

Trained Pannone (then known as Goldberg Blackburn Howards) 1984-86; qualified 1986; specialised in clinical negligence ever since; Russell Jones & Walker 1991; returned to Pannone, made partner 1992.

Member

Solicitors Regulation Authority; Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel; AvMA solicitor referral panel.

Education

Manchester Grammar School; Queen’s College, Cambridge University (1983); Manchester Metropolitan University (1984 Law Society Finals).

Practice Areas

Clinical negligence - claimant; Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights

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