Anne-Marie Knight > Weightmans > Newcastle upon Tyne, England > Lawyer Profile

Weightmans
1 ST JAMES' GATE
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 4AD
England

Position

 
 Anne-Marie is a Partner based at Weightmans’ Newcastle office, who specialises in defending professional indemnity claims against a range of professionals. She has 30 years of experience of advising both insurers and their insured professional clients in this field.
 Anne-Marie is regularly instructed in relation to claims against traditional professionals, such as architects, engineers, design and build contractors, approved inspectors, cladding designers, asbestos surveyors, building surveyors, solicitors and accountants.
 She has also advised in relation to claims against emerging professions, such as process servers and recruitment consultants and has experience of professional disciplinary proceedings, as well as criminal proceedings brought against a professional client.
 In addition to defending claims brought against professionals, Anne-Marie is regularly instructed by insurers to advise on policy coverage matters.
 Anne-Marie is recommended by the Legal 500 as one of only three Leading Individuals in the North and as one of only five practitioners in Chambers and Partners for the North East and Yorkshire region. She has acquired a reputation for hard work, attention to detail, and excellent client service delivery.
 She is an accredited Mediator and has successfully conducted many mediations.

Lawyer Rankings

North > Insurance > Professional negligence

(Leading individuals)

Anne-Marie KnightWeightmans

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.

North > Real estate > Construction

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.