
Weightmans LLP
Lawyers
Paul Hughes
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Work Department
Motor Multi Track & Technical
Position
Partner - Motor Multi Track & Technical
Career
Paul has over 35 years' experience in dealing with injury and other insurance claims on behalf of insurers, self-insured companies and their representatives.He handles complex and high-value claims, including catastrophic injuries (including TBI cases), fatalities, chronic pain, stress at work claims and other psychiatric injuries. He has significant experience in handling claims against bus and coach operators,a nd presently has a significant caseload of motor claims on behalf of police forces nationwide.
He also has substantial experience in handling injury claims on behalf of port operators, hauliers, cruise ships and other maritime vessels.
He has experience in dealing with complex inquests and has dealt with claims against police forces for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment, and claims against local authorities.
He is a qualified mediator. Paul has mediated, either as mediator or mediation advocate, over 100 personal injury and professional negligence claims over a number of years. He trained as a mediator in San Francisco in 1997.
Paul is a member of FOIL's ADR sector focus team and a member of Trust Mediation's Advisory Council. He is a former member of the Law Society's ADR and Civil justice Committees.