Thompsons Solicitors LLP handles serious injury claims arising from holidays and overseas work, with particular focus on brain, spinal, and amputation cases. Based in Manchester, Martyn Gwyther leads the practice and brings particular expertise in high-risk environments, such as diving incidents, oil rig and offshore platform injuries, as well as accidents occurring on foreign roads, aircraft, and vessels.
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‘Thompsons' have a dedicated foreign accident department and cover those areas of the law that many firms would not regularly deal with, such as maritime claims and offshore employment. They therefore have a much broader expertise in these areas than many regular personal injury firms.’
‘Martyn Gwyther is a long-standing practitioner in this area with considerable skill and knowledge of cross-border claims. He also is very pragmatic with good client skills.’
‘Very capable travel law team which is very well regarded by the trade union sector in particular. ’
‘Martyn Gwyther - Very capable team leader ’
‘Thompsons have a very solid team with a well-earned reputation for providing excellent work in foreign law matters.’
‘Martyn Gwyther does an excellent job coordinating a very good team of lawyers and ensuring that they all deliver first class quality work in this complex field of travel law ’
Key clients
- Miss Siobhan O’Connor
- Modern Slavery claims
- A self-employed painter/decorator injured on film set in Malta and BECTU
- Special effects expert suffered crushing injury to foot and Prospect
- An Irish National injured in road traffic accident in Wales and NASUWT
- A Romanian National domiciled in England suffers severe hardship following negligence bariatric surgery that took place in Turkey
- A Scottish National injured at work by electrical shock and RMT
Lawyers
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Practice head
Martyn Gwyther
Other key lawyers
Suzanne Humphries; Gareth Carter; Gerard Stilliard