Neil Davies > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
1 St James Court
WHITEFRIARS
NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
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Neil Davies
Work Department
Insurance.
Position
Neil specialises in acting for insurers and insured professional clients in the defence of professional negligence claims. He has experience in acting for a broad range of professionals, and has a particular interest in claims relating to construction professionals, and insurance brokers. His reported cases include (1) Pearson Education v The Charter Partnership [2005] EWHC 655 (QB) (first instance); [2007] BLR 324 (Court of Appeal); and (2) Daniels v Thompson [2004] EWCA Civ 307. Neil has joint responsibility for managing the insurance practice based in the East of England. He is also the partner responsible for insurance work relating to construction professionals and insurance brokers in the East of England.
Career
Trained Davies, Parsons & Co; qualified 1995; joined Mills & Reeve 2003, became associate 2009, partner 2013 to date.
Memberships
The Chartered Insurance Institution.
Education
Graig Comprehensive, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire; Anglia Polytechnic University (1991 LLB (Hons)); Glamorgan Polytechnic (1995 LPC (Commendation)).
Leisure
Watching and coaching rugby.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Professional negligence
(Leading partners)The Norwich office of Mills & Reeve LLP is home to an insurance disputes practice for which professional indemnity, insurance and financial disputes are a key focus. The firm has ‘genuine specialists in the field, with lawyers who are personable, proactive, attentive, commercial and engaged with their cases‘, remarks one client. Among these are practice head Neil Davies and consultant Stephen King, and senior associates Matthew Wilson and ‘highly intelligent and very hardworking‘ Sophie Briggs. Davies, who is ‘a calm presence when business-changing issues are at hand‘, frequently handles claims against the construction/engineering professions, surveyors, and financial and pension professionals.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners East Anglia > Insurance > Professional negligence
- Professional negligence East Anglia > Insurance
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