Partner at JMW Solicitors LLP specialising in contentious probate and trusts work including will validity challenges, trust disputes and inheritance act claims. Alison’s work includes all aspects of contentious trusts and probate work and her clients praise her for a high level of commitment, dedication and knowledge together with a fine eye for detail and going the extra mile for their cause.
Partner and head of private client team at JMW LLP incorporating wills trusts and estates as well as Court of Protection and residential conveyancing. Specialising in all types of residential conveyancing including sales and purchases of leasehold and freehold properties for owners and investors alike. Acting for investors in disposals or purchase of buy to let property inc portfolios of property. Bespoke purchases or sales of high-net-value property as well as acting on shared ownership sales, purchases, staircasing and Help to Buy. Acting for banks and lending institutions on lender representation from initial loan through to repossession sales. Dealing with sole and joint representation lending for long and short term lenders / bridging companies. Acting for major auction house on sales & purchases of property sold under auction conditions. Specialism in acting on sales of property subject to CPS restraint orders subject to variation of restraint order for sale.
Andrew is a partner specialising in investment and portfolio management, complex commercial lease transactions, the real estate aspects of corporate deals and property work for the dental sector. Key transactions include the purchase of Barton Arcade, a Grade-II listed shopping centre in Manchester for a Singapore family firm, acting on the purchase of Worcester Warriors Premiership Rugby Club, acting on the purchase of a group of eight dental practices, and the purchase and subsequent sale of a professional football club.
Andy is a Trustee of Headway Preston and Chorley and runs a caseload of challenging brain and spinal injury cases. He has won his client’s damages over £20 million in cases transferred to him form other solicitors as ‘problem cases’. He is committed to ensuring that his clients receive the very best early rehabilitation and support and obtain the maximum possible settlement. He works closely with the Child Brain Injury Trust and is the firm's appointed representative for Headway and the Spinal Injuries Association. Andy is also head of the industrial disease team and is responsible for marketing, supervision and training. He has run a number of ground-breaking mesothelioma and asbestos disease cases. These have included a reported High Court decision clarifying the position regarding disposal of tissue samples in a lung cancer/asbestosis case and settling a case after trial but before judgment was given which extended the scope of Chandler v Cape to visitors and obtained compensation for low level exposure between 1958 and 1960
Partner specialising in brain and spinal injury. Angharad has developed great expertise in a wide range of clinical negligence claims and now focuses on cases involving serious injuries to patients, including brain damage, spinal injuries and fatalities. In 2018 she obtained a compensation settlement totalling £22 million for a child who suffered brain damage after their birth was mismanaged to cover the cost of his lifelong care. In the same year she secured £1.75 million for a man left with permanent disabilities due to negligent treatment of cauda equina syndrome. Angharad also has specialist experience in kernicterus cases and in 2015 obtained £8.8 million for a young boy with this form of severe brain damage due to mistakes made in the treatment of newborn jaundice. Angharad has more recently secured an approved settlement of another kernicterus case in the capitalised sum of £18million in August 2020 cases as well as case relating to management of infection leading to a below knee amputation for £2.35m in January 2019. Angharad has also more recently settled a number of spinal injury cases, one settling for £1.7m in June 2023. Angharad also resolved a complex case relating to birth injury due to failure to manage maternal sepsis in the sum of approximately £10million.
Partner and Head of Liverpool Office Specialising in high net worth divorces and financial settlements, complex children matters and surrogacy.
Partner in the Commercial Litigation department. Claire has experience of handling a broad range of commercial disputes, including within the sporting sector. Such commercial disputes comprise contractual disputes – including for example warranty claims, breaches of restrictive covenants and misrepresentation claims – professional negligence claims, shareholder and partnership disputes and applications for injunctive relief.
Partner, Military Personal Injury and Inquests Significant experience in representing Armed Forced personnel in relation to serious and life changing injuries, Inquest representation, Armed Forces Compensation Claims and Criminal Injuries (Overseas) Scheme claims.
Partner, with a background in financial and business crime, regulatory investigations and serious general crime.
David specialises in acting for clients following relationship breakdowns, involving all forms of assets, on and off shore including businesses, residential and commercial property, trusts and pensions. David has specialist expertise in cases involving assets located in Spain, France and elsewhere and dealing with offshore trusts.
Partner and Head of Consumer and Parking Law at JMW Solicitors LLP. Derek is the leading Lawyer to the UK Parking Management Sector, he was appointed by the British Parking Association (BPA) as the approved Solicitor to their membership in 2016 and continues in this role through which he established and leads BPA Lawline, an advice line device to members of the BPA. His expertise extends beyond parking to complex motoring related regulatory issues affecting a wide variety of affected land owner and users, from private estates, through retail and entertainment venue, hospitals and other NHS facilities to national toll roads, tunnels and bridges. Derek is known for his ability to find effective and practical solutions reducing motorists’ misuse and anti social behaviours on private land, roads and key transport infrastructure locations. In these roles Derek regularly advises and assists steering groups and their members, MPs and ministers and their civil servant advisors ensuring where possible immaculate rhetoric is balanced with facts and evidence to ensure as far as possible new and evolving legislation in the parking and related sectors is fit for purpose. Derek is committed to driving change in the parking industry and promoting the values of the British Parking Association BPA and Chartered Trading Standards Institute CTSI. On behalf of the BPA and its members , Derek is working closely with the ICO, DVLA, Trading Standards, Consumer Groups, MPs and Government to encourage consistency, transparency and a proportionate approach to consumer related parking matters and promote the fair treatment of all consumers and landowners alike. Derek’s specialist consumer areas include, Parking and transport infrastructure, Trading Standards, Retail Due diligence and compliance, Manufacturing and supply chain, Product safety, Product recall, Parking enforcement legislation, Consumer Credit permissions, Consumer Credit authorisations, Debt and Claims management, Advertising Standards amongst others. In his capacity as a trading standards solicitor, Derek provides compliance advice as well as managing clients investigated by regulatory bodies including Trading Standards, Consumer Credit, FCA, OFT, FOS, MOJ, ICO, MHRA and the Police. In other roles, Derek also assists with the management and sponsorship of motorsports teams and drivers, in all levels of motorsport from grass roots to F1 including Haas and Renault (currently Alpine) F1 teams, W series drivers and teams in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). In addition to ongoing assistance with the drafting of the standards and framework accompanying the Parking Code of Practice Act 2919, notable cases Derek has been involved in include: ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis Supreme Court in 2015 with its companion case Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67- these key precedent contract law cases concern the validity of penalty clauses and the application of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive. DPO roles and ICO investigation assistance to a variety of consumer facing sectors. Drink driving sleepwalker Rebecca Mason acquittal; Penalty points swapping of high profile football players; Significant OFT/FCA Consumer Credit Authorisation appeals MTR notices and determination, plus MOJ, FOS and Trading Standards interventions; successful pharmaceutical industry price fixing cartel defence; R v Paul Burrell; Dr Harold Shipman Inquest. Publications of note include guest editing the Consumer and Trading Standards Law and Practice (Pink Book). Derek also had significant involvement in the content of the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019. Derek has been a driving law pundit on BBC Radio 5 live and has also regularly appeared on National and local TV and Radio discussing Consumer and driving related matters. Twitter: @DrivingLawyer.
Eddie Jones is head of the clinical negligence department at JMW. As well as overseeing the running of the department, Eddie handles serious and high-value compensation claims arising from avoidable patient injury. This includes maximum severity cerebral palsy claims relating to birth and neonatal care errors. He has won many of these complex claims and secured a £26m care package for a boy who sustained brain damage during his birth after signs that he was in distress were not acted on and his delivery delayed. Eddie also has extensive experience of cauda equina syndrome claims and is recognised as a leading practitioner nationally. In 2019 he secured one of the highest compensation settlements paid by an English hospital trust on a cauda equina syndrome claim at £9.3m. Eddie has led his practice to develop significant expertise in cauda equina claims and its average compensation settlement is significantly higher than the national average. Eddie was Partner of the Year in the 2019 Manchester Legal Awards. He is also involved with numerous charities and support services.
Joint Head of Family law advising clients on the breakdown of their relationship as to how best to resolve complex issues concerning the treatment of their assets and income, and the appropriate arrangements for their children.
Professional Regulation Evan represents professional and commercial clients before regulatory panels and in the related courts. He is highly regarded for his detailed preparation and understanding of issues faced by clients who are alleged to have breached professional standards and regulations, including fitness to practice issues. Clients include solicitors, medical practitioners, politicians, accountants, architects, senior directors and sports professionals. Business Crime Defence Evan has been instructed to defend in a great many serious fraud, restraint, asset recovery and confiscation cases in the UK and abroad. He is highly regarded by forensic accountants, who have described him as ‘having a rare ability to grasp the central issue when faced with complicated scenarios’. He has represented clients in many of the largest cases prosecuted in the North West and some of the largest cases nationally. These include matters brought by The Crown Prosecution Service, The Serious and Organised Crime Agency, The Department for Business and Enterprise, UK Border Force and HM Revenue and Customs. Evan presents seminars to other solicitors and barristers on fraud-related topics. Recent cases include: high profile politician in a corruption investigation; misconduct in a winding up petition; eight-defendant £35m; finance fraud; doctor involved in a corporate manslaughter investigation following a death in custody; large Trading Standards prosecution involving a council tax re-banding enterprise; 12-defendant fraud on a local authority involving loss to the public purse of £1m; 14-defendant excise duty fraud whereby £6m of excise duty and VAT was avoided; extradition of defendants from the EU to face contempt of court and confiscation enforcement proceedings; multimillion-pound importation of pharmaceuticals from China in contravention of licence; six-defendant property management fraud resulting in confiscation proceedings where the prosecution applied for recovery of over £2m; large-scale ‘long firm fraud’ conspiracy involving multiple frauds on various companies; and judicial review proceedings against SOCA in a property development fraud. Evan has appeared on radio and TV commenting upon fraud related topics. Evan is increasingly involved in civil asset fraud recovery and Part 5 POCA cases arising out of financial investigations.
Joint head of the Personal Injury department at JMW and a Special Ambassador for the Child Brain Injury Trust. Gordon specialises in very high-value personal injury claims. Gordon has a special interest in paediatric brain injury claims, regularly securing seven figure settlements on behalf of his clients. Recent notable case settlements include: a settlement of £5m for a child who suffered a brain injury as a result of a road traffic accident, £2.73m for a child who was knocked over whilst crossing the road and suffered a brain injury and over £7m for an adult who suffered a spinal cord injury. He is heavily involved in building linkages with external charitable organisations specialising in helping victims of catastrophic injuries, such as the Child Brain Injury Trust and Spinal Injuries Association. Gordon is a passionate advocate for his clients to ensure that injury victims of catastrophic accidents receive a quality standard of care for the remainder of their lives. Current caseload consists of paediatric brain and spinal cord injury claims where seven-figure settlements are expected.
Partner Graham has practised commercial law in Manchester for over 25 years and in that time has handled most forms of commercial disputes. He handles complex commercial disputes including applications for urgent interim relief, professional negligence claims and shareholder disputes including appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He acts on contentious insolvency matters including claims against directors under the Insolvency Act. His work increasingly involves allegations of fraud and dishonesty and often in regulated industries and professions. Graham also handles civil claims for malicious prosecution and misfeasance in public office.
Partner in the Construction team at JMW specialising in dispute avoidance and dispute resolution. She has a particular interest in Adjudication. She holds an MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution (with distinction) and her Dissertation focussed on non-payment within the construction industry.
Partner and Head of Motoring Department. Hojol has extensive experience in all motoring offences with particular niche expertise in evidentially and legally complicated cases relating to dangerous driving, careless driving, (including death cases) drink driving, drug driving and speeding offences. Hojol has also established a reputation for his expertise and experience in the field of DVLA Medical Revocation of Driving Licences, having an in-depth knowledge of the DVLA’s Guidance on Fitness to Drive and the process of challenging a revocation. Hojol advises and undertakes Judicial Review of the decisions of Magistrates’ Courts. Hojol has previously represented defendants for drink driving and been successful in challenging cases to the High Court. In addition to the above Hojol deals serious criminal matters whether it be in the Magistrates, Crown Court, Court of appeal of High Court. Hojol predominantly deals with such matters on recommendations only. Such cases, he deals with relate to Perverting the Course of Justice, Drugs Conspiracies, Fraud, Money Laundering, Serious Violence and Health and Safety offences.
Partner in the Family Department. She has expertise in all aspects of private family law but is a specialist in complex financial disputes including offshore assets and corporate structures. Represents a wide range of clients including business owners, teachers, doctors, other professionals and entrepreneurs.
Partner Ian advises in all areas of Professional Regulatory Discipline, Fitness to Practice and is an experienced Grade A Criminal Practitioner. Ian’s main specialism is in Police Law with particular emphasis on Misconduct proceedings, Inquests and Inquiries. For nearly 30 years Ian was the sole appointed Solicitor for the Police Superintendents Association. He has also represented numerous members of CPOSA.
Partner in the Employment department. Specialising in Restructuring; executive terminations; TUPE; unfair dismissal; discrimination; insolvency issues.
Partner James has extensive experience in: contentious and non-contentious corporate recovery and insolvency; all types of distressed business and asset sales and purchases; disposal of real property on behalf of office holders, particularly involving complex title issues; board advisory and transactional matters, including advice on restructuring, turnaround and director's duties; pursuing and defending officeholder claims against directors; distressed lending and refinancing; and personal insolvency matters.
Partner in the personal injury department specialising in catastrophic injury claims. Has a particular interest in brain injury, amputation, serious orthopaedic injury and fatal accident claims. Jason takes a tough stance on behalf of his clients, using his considerable skill and knowledge to drive an appropriate settlement. Heavily involved in training and supervision of junior lawyers to ensure they receive a solid grounding in personal injury law. Willing to consider difficult or complex cases. Recent success stories include a settlement of £1.275million for a motorcyclist who suffered a severe brachial plexus injury when knocked off his motorbike on the way to work, £1million for a client who was knocked off her pedal bike resulting in a below knee amputation and £750,000 for a client who eventually had to have a below knee amputation following an accident in November 2011. A clear marker of Jason’s ability and skill is the consistently high level of referrals he receives via word of mouth. Numerous amputation, fibromyalgia and head injury clients have all either been referred to him directly by previous clients for whom he has acted, or via case studies on the JMW website. Other notable successes include; a fibromyalgia case settlement for £290,000, in which the defendant’s representative made an initial offer to settle of £25,000; a £400,000 compensation award for a client who suffered multiple severe injuries in a road traffic accident, £350,000 for a client who suffered a serious wrist injury after falling from a mobile scaffold at work and £525,000 for the widow and dependents of a man who was killed after being knocked off his bicycle on his way to work.Jason’s ongoing caseload is proving just as robust, with a wide-ranging set of claims, including several worth £1million plus.
A robust all-rounder who enjoys getting stuck into a spectrum of personal injury claims, from accidents in the workplace or trips and slips, to road traffic accidents, preferring to embrace complex, challenging and technical issues arising from the field. Has outstanding technical ability and takes a no-nonsense approach to work and litigation, with a great deal of advocacy experience. Jean’s passion is getting the absolute best settlement on behalf of her clients and she uses her broad experience, skill and a straight-talking approach with the other side to ensure just that. Her caseload supports this, with regular six-figure awards in cases as diverse as complex RTA's, occupiers liability and accidents at work. Jean also heads up the Road Traffic Accident team within JMW where she has been instrumental in the team’s establishment and progression, remaining heavily involved in its improvement and development, passing on her vast knowledge and experience to them and encouraging them to adopt a flexible, committed and efficient approach to a large caseload. She works closely with the team to manage and train them and adapt them to any Governmental changes to ensure their continued efficiency and profitability. Jean is also heavily involved in the development of JMW’s in-house case management system ‘Proclaim,’ regularly enhancing the system to facilitate better fee earner experience and ultimately creating bespoke solutions that meet the needs of an ever-evolving personal injury department.
I advise middle to high net worth clients in relation to all aspects of Private Family Law, including divorce, financial settlements, pre-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements and complex cases involving the arrangements for children. I also advise clients in relation to family law injunctions such as Non Molestation and Occupation Orders.
Partner acting on behalf of a variety of specialist lenders. Jodi has over 15 years’ experience in property law and has a particular interest in representing the buy to let investor and lender clients from private bridging lenders on a separate representation basis to institutional banks and PLC’s on a dual representation basis. Testament to Jodi’s dedication, consistent commercial attitude and technical ability is the fact that she has retained repeat clientele spanning the length of her legal career, working alongside the buy to let investor to maximise their property portfolio offering and lenders and brokers, including fintech companies, to streamline procedures and processes to maximise service levels and output.
Partner specialising in brain and spinal injury. I have developed expertise in a wide range of clinical negligence claims since qualifying but now focus on cases involving serious injury such as brain damage, spinal injuries and amputations.
Partner & Head of Private Client Joe joined JMW in July 2019 in the Private Client Department, having spent ten years at Addleshaw Goddard. His expertise relates to providing tax, estate and succession planning to ultra-high net worth individuals, institutional clients and entrepreneurs, with a focus on owner-managed businesses and corporate vehicles. He also has extensive experience advising on trust formation and administration, high value and international estate administration, and contentions trusts and estates.
John’s main areas of expertise are intellectual property exploitation, franchising, brand licensing, commercial agreements, competition law, sports and media. His uncluttered and commercially focused approach has won him praise when dealing with high profile, high value matters. John is an established speaker at various brand licensing seminars both in the UK and abroad and is a director of the Manchester Fashion Network.
Senior Partner and Head of Business Development in fast-growing, profitable North West firm.
Julian advises on all aspects of occupational pension schemes, including scheme organisation, restructuring and dispute resolution. Most recently he has advised extensively on pension scheme mergers following employer restructuring. He specialises in advising on managing section 75 debt on employer cessation events and has been particularly involved in advising trustees and employers on modifying debt and re-assigning scheme liabilities through both scheme and flexible apportionment arrangements. Julian is skilled at liaising with scheme administrators, consultants, actuaries and insurers during merger and de-risking projects and has extensive experience in advising on, and drafting, the necessary documentation. He acts for trustees and employers on pension litigation matters including equalisation, rectification, and professional negligence. He is experienced in managing the litigation process through to compromise settlement and court hearing. Julian acts for a number of trustee boards of schemes provide by trade unions for their employees. His background as a trade union pensions officer prior to becoming a solicitor gives him a unique understanding of the particular issues faced by trustees of trade union sponsored schemes.
Julie Agnew is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency team advising lenders, directors, companies and insolvency practitioners on a range of matters covering both contentious and non contentious issues.
Partner Katie specialises in divorce and complex financial remedy work including business assets, trusts, inherited wealth and complex pension structures. She advises and drafts pre and post nuptial agreements. Katie also advises upon private Children Act work together with financial applications on behalf of children.
Laura Wharton is a Partner in the Employment team. Laura advises clients on a wide range of employment law issues, from undertaking disciplinary and grievance processes, redundancies and TUPE. Laura also provides advice to employers and employees in relation to employment tribunal litigation. Laura is the main contact for the corporate team in mergers and acquisition work, and frequently supports her colleagues in JMW’s Court of Protection team when matters arise. Laura is a member of JMW’s Sports team having undertaken work previously for football clubs and exits of football players.
Salary Partner/Commercial Property Residential and Commercial Real Estate, Landlord and Tenant Important Deals: Sale of Barton Arcade Acted for one of the first tenants on the new development at No1 Spinningfields
Until May 2021, Marc was the Head of Commercial Litigation at JMW managing a dynamic and multi award-winning department of 60 people, making it one of the largest litigation teams in the North West. From May 2021 , Marc was promoted into the Central Management function at JMW and now works alongside both the Managing Partner and Senior Partner as the Head of Business Development. Marc remains very client focussed and his client base permeates a number of industries, including sport, media, and online retailing. His client base included the likes of eBay, PayPal and the Hut Group as well as many other successful entrepreneurs and sports stars. Marc’s current role involves helping others within the firm develop their personal profile by using their own networks to develop business relationships and cross-sell opportunities to other areas of the firm. Marc is hugely passionate about Business Development and has introduced a number of products, tools and techniques to both Partners and junior fee earners to help them progress. Particular products include “Barn Door” – a platform that connects Sports stars to businesses to help them prepare for life beyond sport, and “The Inside Man” JMW’s very own news channel that posts topical videos and creative content via social media.
Partner in Commercial Litigation department, with 50+ lawyers and support staff dealing with all areas of commercial litigation, including specialists in construction and property related matters.
Corporate M&A. Mark is a partner in JMW’s corporate team, over his career he has built up a strong client base, acting on behalf of private investors, entrepreneurs, owner-managed businesses and companies across a variety of sectors within the Northwest region. Mark is experienced in advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters across a variety of sectors, including: acquisitions and disposals, MBO’s, joint ventures, private equity and investment structures, share option schemes, re-structuring, refinancing and corporate governance matters.
Partner at JMW having joined 2020. He has an interest in all aspects of clinical negligence, including but not limited to, neurosurgery, orthopaedic medicine, general surgery, urology, obstetrics and gynaecology
Megan joined JMW in September 2020 as Partner and Head of Court of Protection (COP). She acts as deputy, trustee and attorney and is also a director of JMW Trust Corporation Limited. Megan manages one of the largest and fastest-growing COP teams in the country. She also: Handles the team’s most complex cases (10% pro bono) involving multi-million-pound estates, international assets, contested legal proceedings and fraud allegations. Supports clients with the most profound disabilities, reduced life expectancy and challenging behaviours. She builds trust with clients, their families and their support network. Provides free training/seminars to care providers, local authorities and charities, promoting awareness and collaboration to support vulnerable children/adults.
Partner Melissa acts for children and adults in high value cases involving serious harm. She has significant experience in dealing cases involving birth injuries, neonatal jaundice (kernicterus) and hypoglycaemia. She also acts for adults in cases involving strokes and cauda equina syndrome. 2020 highlights include the hypoglycaemia case of OP, which settled for £13M, and the spinal injury case of KI, which settled for £2.1M.
I am a partner and joint head of the family team. Whilst my work covers all areas of family law, my focus consists of divorce and related financial matters. I tend to act for higher net worth individuals including business owners, professionals and sports stars. I also have a particular interest/niche in acting Schedule 1 cases involving professional footballers.
Partner specialising in financial crime and regulatory matters for over 35 years. He has dealt successfully with a number of high profile cases. His expertise are wide ranging and include cases involving: Company fraud Carousel fraud Boiler room fraud Investment share dealing Taxation fraud. Mike’s Regulatory experience also encompasses many areas including Trading Standards, environmental, health and safety, tax investigation, business innovation and skills investigations, insolvency service investigations, FCA investigations re banks, accountants and IFAs, cyber crime including theft of intellectual property and hacking. Chambers and Partners 2016 say Mike "regularly acts in major investigations led by leading enforcement agencies including the BIS, CBI and FCA. He specialises in a number of areas including tax fraud, commercial fraud and POCA related work.
Partner and head of the cycling claims team. She joined the personal injury department at JMW as a Partner in January 2017.
Partner specialising in public law and commercial litigation He has a particular interest (and nationally-recognised expertise) public law challenges of major government policies particularly in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic as well as police and healthcare law.
Partner specialising in a wide range of complex transactions across various sectors including telecommunications, residential, retail, education, leisure and energy specialising in development with a particular focus on strategic land, infrastructure and residential development.
Managing PartnerPaul is JMW's Managing Partner. He has been with the firm for over 30 years. Prior to becoming Managing Partner Paul was Deputy Managing Partner and the Finance Director for the firm from 2009 to 2014.
Partner and Head of Department and brings with him nearly 30 years’ employment law experience. He has a particular interest (and nationally-recognised expertise) in the law relating to the recruitment industry, advising and providing training on employment status issues, the Agency Workers’ Regulations, GLAA matters, the Working Time Regulations, TUPE and industry-specific regulatory compliance matters. He also acts for senior executives.
Paul is head of JMW’s catastrophic injury team. He handles a varied caseload of high value, complex personal injury matters, along with the rest of his team. Paul also spearheads the department’s relationship with several key referes, which inclues several spinal injuries charities. He has developed a distinctive style over his career that places client care at the heart of every case, building strong relationships not only with his clients, but their families too, in order to ensure that he secures a settlement that will best meet his clients’ needs post accident.Paul’s many past client success stories include his client of M; a 24 year old lady who had attended a friend’s wedding and was on the way home. Her sister was driving and unfortunately lost control of the car and crashed. M was unrestrained in the rear of the car and sustained a very serious and high level injury to her spinal cord rendering her tetraplegic. Initially she was ventilated in hospital however was subsequently weaned of this. Following liability investigations Paul established fault against the driver despite the fact that M got into a car knowing the driver was under the influence of alcohol and additionally was not wearing a seatbelt. Paul engaged the services of a case manager, who in turn and in conjunction with the legal team, identified a property which was suitable to purchase and adapt for a full time wheelchair user, which included the provision of disabled bathroom facilities, a hydrotherapy pool, as well as employing a full time care team and arranging for the relevant aids to be provided. In addition an extensive package of assistive technology was purchased and implemented for the benefit of the client, all paid for by the other sides insurance company. The case subsequently settled for a figure in excess of £5 million.Paul was also successful in securing an extensive settlement for his client of J; a City worker who was involved in a cycling collision on his way to work that led to his sustaining serious head injuries that left him in a coma for several weeks. Following his recovery from coma, it was identified that he had significant left sided hemiplegia, loss of his ability to speak, significant cognitive and violent tendencies which made looking after him very difficult. He was also deemed to lack mental capacity and a professional deputy was appointed by the court of protection. Following extensive inpatient rehabilitation he was discharged back to his previous home, which had been adapted and was provided with an extensive team of support workers. The case settled just before trial on a part lump sum and periodical payment basis to provide for care, loss of income and case management going forward for the rest of J’s life. If the case had been capitalised it would have been worth £12 million pounds.
Partner. Peter advises across a range of commercial and property disputes for both UK and overseas clients and has 12 years’ experience as a litigator. Peter’s work includes contractual disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims and urgent applications for injunctive relief. His property litigation practice encompasses vacant possession strategies, breach of covenant claims, forfeiture and possession claims, dilapidations, right of way and boundary disputes, break notices, nuisance and trespass claims, rent arrears and service charge disputes.
Rebecca is a Partner at JMW and heads up the Media and Reputation Management team. Rebecca’s team provide specialist media and reputation management advice to clients predominantly based in the UK. The team is known for working collaboratively with clients’ PR teams and key stakeholders to manage, often at short notice, reputational or privacy issues. The team has considerable experience in dealing with the Media and in injunctive matters. Rebecca is known for being dedicated to assisting her clients to enforce their legal rights, to defend their legal position and to achieve positive outcomes.
Richard is a partner and head of the firm's commercial contracts team. He joined JMW from national law firm Pinsent Masons in August 2014 having spent 12 years there. Richard has experience of advising clients on a wide range of commercial matters including key long term supply agreements and outsourcing agreements assisting clients to maximise value from key relationships. He has advised clients on a variety of methods to get product and services to market including the establishment of strategic partnerships, the appointment of agents and distributors and the establishment of franchise networks. Richard also advises clients on the associated consumer issues including sales promotions and consumer protection legislation. Richard regularly advises clients in relation to IT contracts including the procurement of hardware and development of software. He also advises clients in relation to the commercialisation and protection of their intellectual property. Recent experience includes: advising a leading retailer on the procurement of a multi channel IT platform, advising a newly formed group of accountancy practices in relation to a suite of documents governing their relationship with the member firms, advising a professional services consolidator in relation to their agreements to enable a small business advice offering and advising a sports governing body on a long term partnering and sponsorship agreement.
Partner in the Property Litigation Team specialising in a broad range of commercial and residential property disputes for a variety of clients from large property investment funds to individuals who own residential property. He assists in the running of a growing and talented Property Litigation Team and has a particular expertise in business development.
Specialist family and asset protection lawyer with a career spanning the leading family teams at top City and international firms across the UK and Hong Kong. Advises on protecting wealth and issues following divorce/separation with a focus on complex international cases involving HNW/UHNW and often high-profile clients. His clients are based across Manchester and the North, London and internationally. Particular expertise in cases involving offshore trusts, corporate structures and substantial family wealth. Has acted in a number of reported cases which have shaped the law in this area and most recently Sir Frederick Barclay following his widely publicised divorce in one of the largest and most complex cases to have come before the English courts.
Partner, Real Estate Finance Real Estate RestructuringRussel is also a real estate work-out and restructuring expert who assists lenders in creating and implementing work-out strategies for distressed loans secured against property. This includes advising on the initial appointment of receivers and administrators, post-appointment management issues, sales strategies and subsequent sales. Russel undertook a 9-month secondment to RBS where he provided assistance on the legal aspects of refinancing, restructuring and re-banking property portfolios.
Sally Leonards is a longstanding partner in the clinical negligence department at JMW. She handles high value clinical negligence compensation claims but has particular expertise in unusual, complex and catastrophic injury cases especially birth injury, brain and spinal injury claims. In her 25+ years career Sally has secured numerous multimillion-pound settlements for children and adults in need of specialist care and accommodation due to cerebral palsy and other brain injuries. Sally's most recent settlement amounts to £25 million. Sally’s most recent settlements for children with brain injuries have included 2 cases with compensation of £25 million each and another settlement of £15 million. Cauda equina syndrome claims are another specialist area for Sally and she is currently representing numerous victims of this type of medical negligence across the country.
Sam Healey is a partner in the Business Crime and Regulation team and has substantial knowledge and experience in handling complex and serious cases. He works nationally with many of his cases having an international element. His experience and expertise is vast, having particular emphasis in handling matters relating to: Fraud and Financial Crime; Corporate Governance (Bribery and Corruption); Trading Standards; Organised and Serious Crime Serious Motoring Offences (where death or significant injury is caused); Regulatory offences; Criminal Restraint and Confiscation; Tax Investigations & Prosecutions Sam is regularly instructed to represent corporates, individuals and professionals. He is someone clients always want by their side given his robust and pragmatic approach in representing and protecting their position. He identifies immediately the salient issues, is able to navigate his way around complex legal and factual issues in a case and has a meticulous eye for detail.
Partner and Head of Banking Areas of expertise: trade and supply chain finance, project finance, acquisition finance, asset-based lending, real estate finance, secondary debt trading, non-contentious restructuring, commodities trading and finance
Partner specialising in investment/owner occupier work. Simon has a wealth of experience across the commercial property spectrum, having acted for a broad mix of clients, ranging from individual entrepreneurs to large corporates. Simon undertakes work for a number of national and regional Investors, and boasts a strong retail specialism having worked for many years in a tailored Retail team acting for high profile national retailers and managing extensive portfolios.He also undertakes extensive work in the care sector, having acted for various day nursery and social care providers assisting with their growth programmes.
Partner Simon joined JMW in 2017 as a Partner in the Employment team. Simon’s expertise primarily relates to advising in relation to clients and suppliers in the recruitment sector. Simon is regularly called on to provide advice in relation to employment status, Agency Workers’ Regulations, National Minimum Wage advice and inspections, restrictive covenant disputes and regulatory matters arising from running a recruitment business. Simon also acts for senior executives in relation to terminations and provides general practice employment advice and representation.
Stephen Taylor Heath is a FSE Partner(Head of Sports law) and specialist Sport and TMT Lawyer. Stephen has specialist experience of multi territory media rights agreements particularly broadcasting and sponsorship rights. Stephen also has expertise in protecting client’s commercial interests particularly through Ambassador, Sponsorship and Image Rights agreements. Recent matters have included the rights agreements for Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder/Anthony Joshua, assisting BT with a Blocking Order against Pirate streams and Ambassador agreements for clients with sportsmen such as Trent Alexander Arnold and Anthony Joshua. He also acted for Prenetics EMEA in their commercial contracts with the EPL, ECB, SoccerAid, the RCA and Matchroom Sport to conduct Covid testing as part of the return to professional sport after lockdown.
Partner in the Commercial Litigation team. Steve acts in respect of general commercial and corporate disputes for a wide variety of clients, including warranty claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, breaches of contract, fraud, professional negligence and all forms of injunctions.His experience includes: Obtaining judgment for £10.8million and obtaining a finding of fraud on a fraudulent warranty claim; Successfully defending a contractual claim for £58m in an adjudication; Successfully defending an unfair prejudice shareholder claim which was discontinued by the Petitioners after 3 days of the trial; Acting as a High Court appointed Supervising Solicitor in the execution of numerous search & seize injunctions; and Representing clients in over 50 mediations.
Partner specialising in claims arising from brain and spinal injuries and particularly those relating to cerebral palsy, kernicterus, and cauda equina syndrome.
Thomas is a partner and head of JMW’s Real Estate Commercial Team. Acting within the care sector for both developers and operators on new build care homes and medical centre developments across the country. He also acts for residential and commercial developers with recent work on redevelopments on C store and petrol fuelling station schemes, residential conversions, Registered providers on affordable and social housing, student accommodation, hotels and industrial sites.
Head of all three Real Estate departments of the firm as well as Head of Real Estate Finance department.
Will Garnett is a Partner within JMW’s Real Estate Commercial Team Will has experience with a wide range of matters including in particular: Sales and acquisitions - specifically in the sectors of retail, leisure and healthcare; Investment – recently including acquisitions of portfolios for affordable and social housing; Development – particularly in respect of residential developers and multi-use sites.