John Hall > Trethowans LLP > Southampton, England > Lawyer Profile
Trethowans LLP Offices
THE PAVILION, BOTLEIGH GRANGE BUSINESS PARK
HEDGE END
SOUTHAMPTON
SO30 2AF
England
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John Hall
Work Department
Personal injury.
Position
John is a partner and the Head of Personal Injury . He qualified as a solicitor in 1994, and has spent his entire career working for claimants in personal injury compensation claims. He joined Trethowans LLP from a large trade union law firm in February 2014, where he was a Southampton-based partner, specialising in complex asbestos disease and other occupational disease cases. John has extensive experiences in running cases involving mesothelioma, asbestos-lung cancer, asbestosis and pleural thickening. He uses all his skill and experience to investigate these cases as a matter of urgency and strives to recover compensation for his clients within their lifetime if they have a fatal condition. John works hard for each and every one of his clients and has a reputation for providing excellent customer care. Specialist areas: asbestos related claims, occupational asthma, other occupational respiratory disease, hand arm vibration syndrome and vibration white finger, allergic contact/skin disease, chemical exposure.
Career
Trained Thompsons Solicitors LLP; qualified 1994; partner Trethowans LLP 2014 to date.
Memberships
apil Senior Litigator
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Trethowans LLP is praised as a ‘powerhouse south coast firm that maintains the feel of a local firm whilst providing services of an exceptional quality’ meaning it is well placed to provide ‘high quality, reliable regional service in personal injury’. John Hall heads up the practice group; he is well known for his expertise in complex asbestos disease cases – acting for the victims of mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, asbestosis, and pleural thickening. Chris Whiteley and Gavin Lane are key names at partner level for catastrophic injury cases, particularly head and spinal.
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
The ‘stand-out clinical negligence team’ at Trethowans LLP represents claimants across a full suite of clinical negligence cases including cerebral palsy, birth injury cases, misdiagnosis and other complex surgical injuries. The practice is jointly headed up by two lawyers: John Hall in Salisbury and Southampton-based Clare Carter, who is an expert in birth injury and cerebral palsy cases. Gavin Lane is a go-to name for catastrophic injury cases including head injury, spinal injury, amputee, and multiple fractures.
South West > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Trethowans LLP‘s clinical negligence team is based across Poole and Salisbury, where the group represents claimants suffering from a range of injuries including those sustained at birth or from error in surgery. Steered by John Hall, the practice also fields Clare Carter, who is particularly well versed in cerebral palsy cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Personal injury: claimant South East > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Employment > Employment: Hampshire
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Professional negligence