Alison Appelboam-Meadows > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Basingstoke, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
Matrix House
Basing View
BASINGSTOKE
RG21 4DZ
England
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Alison Appelboam-Meadows
Work Department
Clinical negligence, personal injury.
Position
Alison is a partner in the PI and clinical negligence team, which handles a range of personal injury and clinical negligence cases. She has over 30 years’ experience in the field, with particular expertise in clinical negligence cases involving obstetric negligence. She has handled many cases on behalf of children with cerebral palsy as a result of ante-/peri-/post-natal events, running the cases to trial, if necessary, to achieve the best outcome for her clients, eg Zhang v Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Massey v Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust. She also acts on behalf of adults who have sustained brain damage as a result of meningitis or hypoxia, eg Napoli v Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust, and those who have suffered significant spinal cord injuries.
Career
Trained Taylor Joynson Garrett (now Taylor Wessing); qualified 1993; associate; associate Penningtons; partner 2005 to date; contributor to regular firm articles; lectures at training events.
Memberships
Member of AvMA’s Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel; Senior Litigator of The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Education
Jesus College, Oxford (1989 BA Hons Experimental Psychology; 2014 MA Oxon); Nottingham Law School (1990 CPE; 1991 LSF).
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading individuals)Catastrophic injury cases, with emphasis on those involving severe birth brain injuries and conditions including cerebral palsy, alongside adult brain injury, and fatal cases make up the heavy-duty caseload at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP. The practice is co-led in Basingstoke by ‘highly accomplished’ Alison Appelboam-Meadows – her expertise lies in obstetric and neonatal negligence, including cerebral palsy, alongside catastrophic injury cases. Co-leader Philippa Luscombe works out of Guildford, with her practice emphasising birth injury cases and claims on behalf of parents who sustain psychiatric injury relating to traumatic birth claims.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Leading individuals South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- 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
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery