Huw Ponting > Foot Anstey > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile
Foot Anstey Offices

2 GLASS WHARF
BRISTOL
BS2 0FR
England
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Huw Ponting

Work Department
Personal Injury
Position
Huw Ponting is a Partner and Head of the Personal Injury Department. He has over 20 years of experience supporting clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries bring maximum severity claims. He is the Chair of Trustees Trustee at Headway Bristol and a Trustee at Headway Herefordshire. Huw has been instrumental in the setting up and running of several free legal clinics around the country supporting patients of Intensive Care and Brain Injury Units. His expertise lies in supporting clients who have suffered maximum severity injuries following an accident with a specialism in supporting clients with an acquired brain injury the effect of which impacts them for the rest of their lives. He also has over 20 years of experience acting as a Court of Protection appointed Deputy for many of his clients and works closely with the Enable Law CoP team to ensure that client needs continue to be met for the rest of their lifetime. Huw regularly provides training to Solicitors, Barristers, case managers and other professionals supporting clients following a serious injury. He has very strong links within the charity sector and is viewed as an expert figure within the brain injury legal field.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Hall of Fame)Enable Law’s ‘strength in depth separates it from all but a few competitors’, with a large, specialised team working in tandem across the Bristol, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro offices. Huw Ponting, ‘who knows more about serious injury and head injury victims than any other solicitor practising in this field’, heads up the personal injury department. Pamela-Jane Riley has a particular interest in acquired brain injury claims for children, while Sue Upton is well versed in the gamut of brain injury claims affecting both adults and children. Gary Walker oversees the dedicated abuse sub-group.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Employment > Employment: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Construction
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy and projects
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Local government
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Real estate > Environment
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing