Cheryl Palmer-Hughes > Irwin Mitchell > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
One St Peter’s Square
MANCHESTER
M2 3AF
England
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Cheryl Palmer-Hughes
Work Department
Personal injury: international travel litigation
Position
Cheryl is a Partner in Irwin Mitchell’s International Personal Injury department.
Career
She acts for clients who have been injured in incidents abroad – while on holiday, working abroad, travelling by coach, plane, car or sea, or undergoing surgery abroad, for example.
She deals with complex, high value claims including brain and spinal injuries, multiple fractures, psychological trauma and fatal accidents and clinical negligence cases.
Cheryl deals exclusively with cases which involve a cross-border element and specialises in conflicts of law issues. She has a special interest in claims arising as a result of clinical negligence during cosmetic surgery abroa
Lawyer Rankings
London > Transport > Travel
(Next Generation Partners)The team at Irwin Mitchell, regarded as a ‘market leader on a national scale’ has a strong reputation for its international, high-stakes injury work for claimants and their families, which is regularly of the utmost sensitivity and severity. Tracey Storey heads up the national practice. Demetrius Danas, noted for his ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of the field’, leads in London and is vastly experienced handling complex cross-border matters. The team’s workload consistently features catastrophic injury claims of high-value, including spinal and brain injury; clinical negligence claims; and fatalities, the scope of which London-based Jennifer Lund is experienced in. ‘Consumer champion’ Philip Banks leads in Birmingham and is experienced advising on the broad-range of cases, from road traffic to work-related accidents abroad. Senior associate Kylie Hutchison has unique expertise in sports-related injuries with in international contexts. Birmingham-based Jatinder Paul, who was promoted to partnership in May 2023 is noted as being ‘a genuine expert and star individual’. ‘Magnificent performer’ Cheryl Palmer-Hughes leads on complex international multi-party actions and fatal accident matters.
North West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Irwin Mitchell‘s international claimant personal injury practice, based in Manchester, is led by Jonathan Betts, an APIL accredited brain injury specialist. Betts is supported by Matthew Brown, an experienced litigator with a strong record in liability and quantum disputes; cross-border serious injury claims specialist Cheryl Palmer-Hughes; and asbestos claims expert Geraldine Coombs. The firm is well known for its military injuries sub-group, key names within which include Amanda Marsh and Carol Purang. Matthew Garson and Richard Biggs were both promoted to partner in May 2022 and 2023, respectively.
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