Richard Palmer > Weightmans > Newcastle upon Tyne, England > Lawyer Profile

Weightmans‘ Newcastle-based team ‘is thorough, prompt and reliable and provides sensible advice’, clients feel that they are ‘in very capable hands.’ Led by mediator Richard Palmer, the team provides advice to a diverse client base, including the UK’s largest insurers, handling a myriad of complex high-volume multi-party claims, including post-Grenfell cladding matters. Amy Nesbitt is ‘a shining star’, specialising in insurance coverage, professional liability and cyber. With great experience in advising traditional and emerging professionals in indemnity claims, Anne-Marie Knight has recently been instructed to defend a multi-party claim concerning defective foundations at a printing press, involving novel remedial schemes. She is supported by principal associate Tom Thurlow who is the go-to name for construction disputes.

Turned to by a number of insurers in particular, Weightmans’ Newcastle-based team regularly works with its client base on construction mandates. Anne-Marie Knight is called upon by a range of professionals and insurance companies for support on disputes concerning negligence and contractual disputes. Richard Palmer is an expert on matters regarding professional indemnity, while Natalie Keyes works on both contentious and non-contentious mandates for a range of clients in the construction field.

Under the leadership of the Newcastle-based litigator Richard Palmer, Weightmans LLP is a regular port of call for London Market and international insurers and reinsurers, in addition to major UK composite insurers. Core areas of strength for the team include property, construction, mining, energy, cyber and financial services, as well as professional indemnity, D&O, contractors pollution liability and environmental impairment liability. Reinsurance expert Ling Ong, Mickaela Fox and Alice Wilson – who joined from RPC in April 2022 – are among other practitioners of note.