Kathryn Hart > Shakespeare Martineau LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Shakespeare Martineau LLP Offices
WATERFRONT HOUSE
WATERFRONT PLAZA, 35 STATION STREET
35 Station Street
NG2 3DQ
England
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Kathryn Hart
Work Department
Personal Injury (Lime)
Position
Partner
Career
Kathryn specialise in Personal Injury law because she enjoys working with individuals where she can really make a positive contribution to their lives. She has been helping individuals with their personal injury claims for over 27 years now.
Kathryn has a caring and sympathetic approach, her aim being to help her clients understand the legal process and to make pursuing a claim as easy as possible. She understands the worries that people have about making a claim and about approaching a solicitor. She takes the time to listen to her clients’ concerns and to answer them in as straightforward a way as possible. She will always get the best possible settlement for each of her clients.
Kathryn has substantial experience in making personal injury claims and has a particular knowledge of head injury claims involving adults and children and of injuries caused by motorbike accidents. Kathryn also has considerable knowledge of asbestos related industrial disease cases.
In a large number of her claims, Kathryn has been able to arrange for private rehabilitation and has secured interim payments for many of her clients.
Education
Kathryn gained her law degree at Leicester University and completed her law studies at Chester College of Law before joining Leicester law firm, Owstons, where she qualified as a Solicitor in 1991. Owstons merged with another major Leicester based law firm, Harvey Ingram, which created the Lime brand, and which ultimately merged with the midlands law firm Shakespeares in 2012.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
Shakespeare Martineau LLP‘s Nottingham and Leicester personal injury teams are headed by Kathryn Hart, who is the lead counsel for head injuries, including cycle claims, and fatal accidents at work. In clinical negligence, Robert Rose continues to be involved in cases against gynaecologists and GPs, as well as representing a number of women who have been affected by the TVT mesh scandal. They are also have significant knowledge in birth injury, wrongful birth and brain injury cases. Helen Rundle is recommended for oncology, general surgery, stillbirth/neonatal death, and fatal cases. Nicola Fahey moved to Lime Solicitors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Professional negligence