Philippa Luscombe > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
31 CHERTSEY STREET
GUILDFORD, SURREY
GU1 4HD
England
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Philippa Luscombe
Work Department
Clinical negligence, personal injury.
Position
Partner heading the clinical negligence and personal injury team in Guildford, Acts for claimants in all aspects of clinical negligence claims, particularly cases involving brain injury, delayed diagnosis, spinal care and injury and death. Acts for claimants in catastrophic injury personal injury claims – particularly brain, spinal and fatal injury claims. Advises on investigations and inquests
Career
Trained Penningtons; qualified 1998; partner 2006 to date.
Memberships
Senior accredited litigator for Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; member of AvMA clinical negligence panel; Law Society clinical negligence panel; Law Society personal injury panel; Spinal Injury Association recommended solicitor, accredited by the Brain Injury Group.
Education
St Catherine’s School, Bramley; Exeter University (1995 LLB Hons); Exeter Law School (LPC, merit)
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP‘s ‘user-friendly and client-focused‘ personal injury team is highlighted for its knowledge of claims involving fatalities as well as experience in brain injury cases, inquests and quantum work. Philippa Luscombe leads the Guildford-based group and focuses on serious brain injury and fatal accident cases; she attracts praise as ‘a considered litigator‘ who is ‘likeable, committed and down-to-earth‘.
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Philippa Luscombe and Alison Appelboam-Meadows jointly lead the Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP clinical negligence group, which maintains a varied offering that encompasses catastrophic injury cases, obstetric claims and surgical care issues, to name a few. Luscombe, who is regarded as having ‘excellent knowledge of the legalities and the realities of negotiating reasonable outcomes’, principally focuses on brain injury and neurosurgical cases and Appelboam-Meadows specialises in cases involving obstetric and neonatal negligence. Alison Johnson is also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Personal injury: claimant South East > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Professional negligence