
The Manchester-based practice at Irwin Mitchell has well-established capabilities representing claimants across a broad array of complex and high-value clinical negligence matters of the utmost severity. The team’s areas of expertise includes the remit of birth, brain, and spinal injury cases, amputation matters, and fatal accidents and inquests. Furthermore, it boasts niche expertise relating to mental health and suicide, which are the focus areas of Ayse Ince, and military cases. ‘Standout litigator’ Kristofer Inskip helms the practice and handles a plethora of maximum severity cases. Jennifer Cawthorne has expertise spanning birth and spinal injury cases, as well as cases regarding delays in cancer diagnoses. Lindsay Wise handles brain and spinal injury cases on behalf of adults and children, and acts for members of the armed forces in military-related cases. Kevin Saul has a specialism in cauda equina syndrome, oral cancer, and neurological injury matters. Dental and medical negligence expert Shahin Master is noted as ’exceptionally efficient and intellectually sharp’ by clients. Inskip and Master split their time between the Manchester and Liverpool offices. Margaret Ryan departed the team in August 2024.
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Practice head
Kristofer Inskip
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Nicola Ashton; Shahin Master; Jennifer Cawthorne; Dina Lambourne; Kevin Saul; Lindsay Wise; Sharon Williams; Ayse Ince



