Philippa Luscombe > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
31 CHERTSEY STREET
GUILDFORD, SURREY
GU1 4HD
England
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Philippa Luscombe
Work Department
Clinical negligence, personal injury.
Position
Partner heading the clinical negligence and personal injury team in Guildford, Acts for claimants in all aspects of clinical negligence claims, particularly cases involving brain injury, delayed diagnosis, spinal care and injury and death. Acts for claimants in catastrophic injury personal injury claims – particularly brain, spinal and fatal injury claims. Advises on investigations and inquests
Career
Trained Penningtons; qualified 1998; partner 2006 to date.
Memberships
Senior accredited litigator for Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; member of AvMA clinical negligence panel; Law Society clinical negligence panel; Law Society personal injury panel; Spinal Injury Association recommended solicitor, accredited by the Brain Injury Group.
Education
St Catherine’s School, Bramley; Exeter University (1995 LLB Hons); Exeter Law School (LPC, merit)
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
Typical claims handled by the ‘exceptional team of undoubted specialists’ at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP include those concerning birth injuries, brain injuries, elderly care and oncology. The practice is led by the ‘tenacious, bright and hugely sympathetic’ Alison Appelboam Meadows in Basingstoke; she focuses on clinical negligence cases involving obstetric and paediatric negligence, and heads up the cerebral palsy team, alongside Guildford-based Philippa Luscombe, who specialises in brain and spinal injury cases, including cauda equina cases and surgical incidents, and is regarded as ‘very experienced and reassuring‘.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40