Lucienne Westbrook > DMH Stallard LLP > Crawley, England > Lawyer Profile
DMH Stallard LLP Offices
Griffin House
135 High Street
RH10 1DQ
England
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Lucienne Westbrook
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Lucienne is a Partner
Career
Lucienne has wide experience of all types of personal injury claims including clinical and dental negligence cases.
Lucienne’s particular expertise lies in accidents at work, accidents at sea, in the air and on the road, high value cases involving brain injury, spinal injuries, multiple injuries and Claimant medical negligence matters. She also has experience of dealing with inquests and was involved in a lead case in the Hepatitis C blood transfusion litigation.
Lucienne has particular experience of high value cases involving brain injury, spinal injuries and multiple injuries and has settled several cases for amounts in excess of £1 million. She also has experience of industrial disease claims, mesothelioma and asbestosis. She is a specialist in sports related personal injury claims and successfully represented the Claimant in the high-profile 2007 Court of Appeal Case Mountford v Newlands School [2007] EWCA Civ 21. In addition, she deals with and advises on defendant personal injury claims for existing clients.
Languages
English, German
Memberships
- APIL
- APIL spinal and brain injury special interest groups
Education
Lucienne qualified as a solicitor in 1987.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
DMH Stallard LLP offers expert advice on all types of clinical negligence claims including misdiagnosis, incorrect treatment and surgical errors. Errors in treatment at birth and obstetrics is a particular specialism of the ‘very caring’ team. Practice group leader Tessa Grayson and is highly experienced on complex birth injury claims. Lucienne Westbrook is another key contact in the department.
South East > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
DMH Stallard LLP‘s multidisciplinary team assists charities, mid and high net worth individuals and professional executors with Inheritance Act Claims, trust disputes, and will validity claims. Jenny Ray in Brighton has a background in personal injury and clinical negligence and leads the team; he joined the practice in April 2022 as a result of a merger with Griffith Smith LLP. Lucienne Westbrook and Cathryn Culverhouse are based in Guildford, the former acts as a court appointed independent executor, while the latter has been described as ‘tenacious.’
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Contentious trusts and probate South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate