Ian Manners > Ashfords LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Housing a ‘strong team of commercial litigators’, Ashfords LLP handles a broad range of cases, from IT and technology litigation, data protection mandates and financial services disputes to crisis management issues, including urgent injunctive and fraud matters, and retail disputes. Praised as ‘extremely savvy and an effective litigator’, Rory Mac Neice leads the team and handles financial services and technology litigation, with additional experience in professional negligence claims. Other key contacts include Tom Llewellyn, who is noted for his expertise in contentious data protection mandates, and Ian Manners.

Praised as a ‘very capable firm that is arguably punching above its weight’, Ashfords LLP acts for a wide-range of clients including regional healthcare trusts, water companies, and international food businesses, which call upon the firm for advisory and defence purposes. Ian Manners, who specialises in health and safety risks, leads the Bristol and Exeter-based team. Clients in the marine sector turn to Lara Moore for her expertise pertaining to harbour revisions and marine regulations, while Zoe Hunt regularly advises on inquest matters.

Ashfords LLP‘s environmental practice focuses on a combination of waste, energy and resource management work in addition to regulatory and compliance matters; the group is also notably experienced in Environment Agency and Marine Management Organisation investigations and enforcement work. Brian Farrell in Exeter is noted for his energy and waste sector experience, and jointly leads the practice alongside risk and regulation expert Ian Manners and energy development and planning specialist Stephen Humphreys, who are both based in Bristol. Zoe Hunt has experience handling waste permitting, pollution issues, and contaminated land cases, and in April 2024, the firm welcomed Paul Collins.