Geraldine McCool > Irwin Mitchell > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Geraldine McCool

0161 259 1517 geraldine.mccool@irwinmitchell.com

Work Department

Military claims.

Position

National head of military claims. Geraldine works on serious personal injury claims, specialising in military work and aviation (military, commercial and general). Key cases: Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Piper Alpha oil rig disaster (1988); Pan Am bombing Lockerbie (1988); British Midland crash at Kegworth (1989); Chinook Mull of Kintyre crash (1994); Swissair crash off Canada (September 1998); Korean Airlines crash at Stansted (December 1999); inequest into death of Sgt Stephen Roberts in Iraq (first soldier fatality); three military Puma crashes (2007).

Career

Trained James Chapman & Co; qualified 1985; Leigh Day & Co (Manchester) 1994-2004; MPH Solicitors 2004-2013; Irwin Mitchell 2013 to date. Publications of note: ‘Multi-Party Actions’ (1995 Legal Action Group); Personal Injury/Know How Serious (1993 and 1997); ‘Civil Litigation’ (2001 The Law Society); author of Litigation column for the Law Society Gazette (1992-1995).

Memberships

Association for American Justice (aviation section); Military Special Interest group of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel; Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors; secretary of the Royal British Legion Solicitors Group.

Education

Mount Carmel School, Alderley Edge; Nottingham University (LLB).

Leisure

Golf.