Barratts Solicitors retains its strong regional reputation for brain and head injury litigation, criminal injuries compensation claims, spinal injury litigation, fatal accidents and inquests, industrial disease, and MIB claims. Head of clinical negligence and Court of Protection Alison Brooks has a wealth of specialist experience when it comes to traumatic brain injury claims. Clinical negligence expert Vicki Holmes‘ broad practice encompasses birth trauma & paediatric claims, spinal injury, brain injury, catastrophic orthopaedic injury, delayed diagnosis of cancer, and strokes. For personal injury, David Tomlinson is vastly experienced with catastrophic injury claims and is both an APIL Fellow and an APIL accredited spinal cord injury specialist. Lesley Edwards is another key name on the personal injury front as head of team, devoting her expertise to TA claims, employers' liability claims, product liability claims, cross-border litigation, international travel claims, and rail and aviation crashes. Mike Dodd is another important port of call.
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'They understand their clients, their needs and their support requirements. They go above and beyond to ensure the client is supported within the context of their own lives. They own the duty of care for their clients and this is really rare.’
‘Organized, courteous in their email correspondence; expeditious in the provision of medical documents and always very quick in their response to questions, queries and comments.’
‘Alison Brooks leads the teams. She has vast experience. She is excellent with clients and has good interpersonal skills. She is industrious and presents her work to a higher standard. Alison has good common sense. She has an analytical mind and, thus, can identify the central issues in any cases. She achieves very good awards on behalf of her clients.'
‘Lesley Edwards is an exceptional solicitor - attention to detail combined with real compassion.’
‘First-rate client service, with partner dealing directly with all high value cases.’
‘This firm has always handled really high-quality work due to the expertise at the firm. What has made them unique remains which is a really personal high quality service from dedicated individuals.’
‘Alison Brooks has a vast wealth of experience in handling clinical negligence claims. She has the warmest manner which instantly puts clients at ease. Her instructions are brilliantly thorough and she invariably achieves fantastic outcomes for her clients. David Tomlinson is one of the most well respected personal injury lawyers in the region for good reason.’
‘Alison and Ross run a practice with a small firm sense of client service, with large firm knowledge and expertise. They deal with high value, complex cases, both for UK claimants and those living outside the UK.’
Work highlights
- Advised a client in a case involving a severely brain damaged pedestrian client involved in an RTA, with liability compromised on a less than 60% basis.
- Advising on a clinical negligence claim involving a delayed diagnosis of cervical cord compression (C6/7) secondary to a disc bulge.
- Pedestrian accident involving poly trauma which included a catastrophic orthopaedic injury, severe internal injuries associated with a such accidents, and a Traumatic Brain Injury which has resulted in a lack of capacity.
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Practice head
Alison Brooks; Ross Brain; Vicki Holmes; Lesley Edwards; David Tomlinson
Other key lawyers
Mike Dodd