Switalskis Solicitors

Personal injury

Partner and head of personal injury – heading a team of 35 fee earners including associate solicitors, assistant solicitors, legal executives, trainees and paralegals. Specialises in personal injury work and employment law, handling a range of matters including employers’ liability and industrial disease. Recently settled two Legionnaires disease claims on behalf of holiday makers under the Package Tour Regulations and an unusual disease claim on behalf of a pet shop worker who contracted Pulmonary Fibrosing Alveolitis as a result of exposure to bird dander. Cited cases include Fox v Cementation Piling Limited [2011] EWCA Civ 790 and Spowart v Nottinghamshire County Council [2006] Lawtel

Assistant solicitor at Atherton Godfrey 1994; partner 1994 to date; head of personal injury and training principal with responsibility for HR across the firm

Accredited as Fellow with Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; past member of SRAs Education and Training Committee (until 2011); past president of Doncaster and District Law Society (for two years)

Ysgol Dinas Bran; Trent Polytechnic, Chester College of Law, 1998 LLB 2:1; 1989 LSF; Nottingham Trent University (MBA in Legal Practice)

Involved in Girl Guiding UK as District Commissioner and Unit Leader, spending time with family