Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Clinical negligence, personal injury. Based in Guildford but working out of Guildford and London office as required.

Partner in clinical negligence and personal injury team. Varied practice covering a wide range of clinical negligence cases with a focus on maximum severity claims, particularly birth, spinal and head injury and those with complex and novel issues and/or involving children.

Trained at Bolt Burdon (now Bolt Burdon & Kemp) Islington, London; qualified in 1990; made partner in present firm in 2016.

Bolt Burdon Kemp, Islington, London – trainee solicitor and solicitor; Evill & Coleman, London, (now Russell Cooke), partner; Charles Russell, London (now Charles Russell Speechlys), partner and head of clinical negligence team; Kingsley Napley LLP, London, partner; Penningtons Manches LLP, Guildford, partner.

Accredited Specialist Panel Member, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA); Accredited Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel, The Law Society; Accredited Fellow Associated with Personal Injury and Lawyers (APIL); Past Coordinator and Secretary, APIL Clinical Negligence Specialist Interest Group; Executive Member of The Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers (SCIL) 2015 to date.

Liverpool University, LLB Hons 1987, Chester Law College 1998 LPC