Madelene Holdsworth > Slater and Gordon > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
58 MOSLEY STREET
MANCHESTER
M2 3HZ
England
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Madelene Holdsworth
Work Department
Personal Injury: Industrial Disease
Position
Madelene is a principal lawyer and head of the industrial disease team, the travel litigation team and the military injuries team.
Madelene specialises in claims for compensation for victims and their families of asbestos related diseases, chemical poisonings, occupational asthma, noise induced hearing loss as well as workplace accidents.
She also specialises in Carbon Monoxide Poisoning cases which is an extremely unique area of law. It is highly unlikely that there is another lawyer in the country who has as much expertise in these types of cases. She has been involved in, and continues to get instructed on, high profile CO cases including CO fatalities.
Career
Madelene joined Pannone Solicitors as a trainee solicitor in 2005 and qualified as a solicitor in 2007. She became a Principal Lawyer with Slater and Gordon in 2014.
Memberships
Madelene is an Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) accredited Senior Litigator and Occupational Disease Specialist.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Noted for its expertise in historic abuse claims and industrial disease cases, Slater and Gordon handles the full spectrum of personal injury issues for claimants. Madelene Holdsworth co-leads the team, utilising her expansive expertise in industrial disease and military injury, often advising on chemical poisoning, asbestos, and noise-induced hearing loss claims, while practice head Jordan Bell specialises in claims concerning both occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure. Practice co-head Kim Harrison is an expert in abuse, often acting in public inquiries into child sexual abuse, while co-head Richard Scorer‘s primary areas of expertise are church and clerical abuse claims. Industrial disease specialist Pauline Chandler handles a range of bladder and nasal cancer cases, acting for both domestic and overseas clients, and Richard Crabtree is noted for his longstanding expertise in neurological trauma cases. Michael Hardacre has since left the practice.