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Ropewalk Chambers Offices
24 THE ROPEWALK
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 5EF
England
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Jayne Adams KC KC
Work Department
Disease, personal injury, clinical negligence, counter fraud, criminal regulatory and professional discipline and regulation.
Position
Jayne has extensive experience in personal injury, clinical negligence, disease and fraudulent claims litigation, travelling throughout England and Wales. Jayne is frequently invited to provide lectures in all of the areas above, but particularly in the industrial disease field to both solicitor and insurer clients. She is registered with the Bar Council to undertake Public Access work and is able to receive instructions directly from lay clients, as well as those on the traditional professional client basis. Notable cases include: Dunn v National Grid Gas PLC [2010] Lawtel (level of damages, mesothelioma); White v E.On [2008] EWCA Civ 146 (limitation, HAVS); Brett v University of Reading [2007] EWCA Civ 88 (breach of duty, mesothelioma).
Career
Called 1982.
Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association; Nottinghamshire Medico Legal Society.
Education
University of Birmingham (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Jayne Adams KC –Ropewalk Chambers ‘Jayne is absolutely meticulous in preparation, phenomenally knowledgeable and an awesome advocate, skillfully extracting crucial responses from seemingly innocuous cross-examination. Major clients repeatedly ask for her, a great testament not only to her gravitas as a KC, but also her approachability and warmth. She is exceptional in producing innovative solutions to the thorniest of cases.’
Ropewalk Chambers continues to operate at the forefront of personal injury work in the Midlands. Jayne Adams KC, ‘brilliant on paper and on her feet’, is a disease specialist with particular expertise in mesothelioma and other asbestos-related claims. She also handles stress-at-work and catastrophic injury cases. Patrick Limb KC recently acted for the claimant in novel occupational disease claim Holmes v Poeton, making the case that exposure to toxic levels of organic solvent TCE whilst working for the defendant resulted in the claimant developing Parkinson’s disease. The judge confirmed the applicability of the material contribution test for causation to indivisible injuries (such as Parkinson’s) but found no clear evidence that exposure to TCE causes such diseases. With a reputation as an ‘effective trial advocate and astute tactician’, Jason Cox is instructed by claimants and defendants in high-value catastrophic and fatal injury claims. Rochelle Rong stands out for ‘her grasp of the detail’ in cases as well as her ‘formidable advocacy‘.