Carolyn Heaton > Irwin Mitchell > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
2 WELLINGTON PLACE
LEEDS
LS1 4BZ
England
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Carolyn Heaton
Work Department
Personal legal services.
Position
Partner in the Leeds serious injury team specialising in high-value and complex adult and paediatric brain, spinal and amputee claims. Frequently recovers multimillion-pound settlements for clients and has extensive experience of PPOs. Despite the large sums of money involved, emphasis is always placed on rehabilitation and restoring quality of life to clients and their families with interim payments for accommodation, care and therapies being obtained wherever possible inorder to maximise the potential for successful rehabilitation. Some cases have contributed towards the firm’s success in achieving rehabilitation awards. Very approachable with a strong emphasis on client care. Increasingly asked to take over cases from other solicitors who fail to recognise the complexity of brain injury and who have struggled to get interim payments for clients.Represented the claimant in Rhodes v Ford which dealt with interim payments and statutory services funding.
Career
Trained DAC Beachcroft; Irwin Mitchell LLP 1994; partner Irwin Mitchell 2010.
Memberships
Former committee member of YABIF (Yorkshire Acquired Brain Injury Forum); Headway Bradford and Headway Sheffield; fellow APIL.
Leisure
Architecture, interior design, cinema, pilates.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance > Clinical negligence and personal injury: claimant
(Leading individuals: Personal Injury)Irwin Mitchell is ‘the best in the business for looking after clients, on both a human and a legal level’. Based in Sheffield, Julianne Moore co-leads the medical negligence practice with Sarah Coles in Leeds. The group has extensive experience handling the gamut of complex, high value negligence claims, specialising in birth injury, spinal injury and amputation cases. The team includes Rachelle Mahapatra, Rachel Roach, Tom Mather, Sarah Rowland and Tim Annett, who work together to provide ‘an excellent and highly personal service’. Adrian Budgen and Sion Kingston jointly lead the personal injury practices in Sheffield and Leeds, respectively. The firm continues to be highly regarded for asbestos disease cases, with Ian Toft noted for his work relating to immunotherapy. The Yorkshire team has a substantial number of APIL accredited specialists, including Rachael Aram and Louise Jenkins . Carolyn Heaton is also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence and personal injury: claimant - Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance
- Leading individuals: Personal Injury - Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance > Clinical negligence and personal injury: claimant
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence and personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms