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Nelsons Solicitors Limited Offices

Nelsons Solicitors Limited
STERNE HOUSE
LODGE LANE
DERBY
DE1 3WD
England
Visit website 01332 372372 01332 365715

Cathryn Selby

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01332 378619 newbusinessteam@nelsonslaw.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Dispute resolution

Position

Partner, Director of Professional Standards & Solicitor. Responsible for maintaining and driving the firm’s high standards and performance. Also head of dispute resolution, with over 20 years’ experience specialising in commercial dispute resolution and professional negligence claims.

Areas of expertise include commercial litigation, including business and share sale disputes; breach of warranty claims; director and shareholder disputes; partnership disputes; insurance disputes; contract claims; civil fraud; charity litigation and trustee disputes.

Cathryn also specialises in professional negligence, including financial services litigation; investment mis-selling; pension disputes, including SIPP litigation and DB transfers; business and personal tax advice; pension disputes; mishandled litigation; commercial property transactions; ground rent claims; professional indemnity disputes.

Cathryn regularly delivers seminars to clients and intermediaries and is consultant editor for the professional negligence division of Simons Taxes.

Career

Trained Halliwell Landau; qualified 1995; partner Nelsons 2012. Solicitor/trainee solicitor at Halliwell Landau, Manchester, 1993-96; solicitor at James Chapman & Co, Manchester 1996-97; partner and head of professional negligence at Pannone & Partners, Manchester 1997-2004; associate and head of commercial litigation Sheffield and national head of professional negligence at Irwin Mitchell, Sheffield 2004-11; partner and head of commercial litigation at Shakespeares, Nottingham 2011-12. Publications of note: consultant editor of the Professional Negligence section of Simons Taxes.

Memberships

Member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association; member of Derby University’s University Court.
Recommended by The Legal 500.

 

Education

Mortimer Wilson; University of Manchester (1992 LLB Degree in Law); Chester College of Law (1993 Law Society Final Examinations).

Leisure

Travel, reading, walking, food, cinema.

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Insurance > Professional negligence

Nelsons Solicitors Limited‘s team is led by Daniel Brumpton who is ‘hugely experienced in the industry, knows the market inside-out, and a strong and realistic practical thinker’. Representing claimants against solicitors, financial advisors and property professionals, the practice continues to develop its offering in claims against conveyancing solicitors as a result of purchasing leasehold properties with onerous ground rents. Fellow partner Cathryn Selby deals with relation to mishandled litigation, tax advice, financial product mis-selling and hedging claims.

East Midlands > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby

The commercial litigation team at Nelsons Solicitors Limited services a varied client base, acting both for local businesses and a number of major clients across the UK. The team is headed up by Daniel Brumpton, who specialises in partnership disputes, injunctions, and breach of warranty claims. Elsewhere within the practice, Jon Roberts is noted for his expertise in fraud cases, while Cathryn Selby‘s capabilities extend to disputes concerning commercial contracts and financial services companies.

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