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Bindmans LLP Offices
236 GRAY'S INN ROAD
LONDON
WC1X 8HB
England
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Jon Crocker
Work Department
Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.
Position
Managing Partner at Bindmans and Head of Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.
Jon has a wide range of experience in both personal injury and clinical negligence work, having qualified in 1992 and specialised in these fields since 1994.
Jon specialises in complex, high-value claims involving clients who have sustained brain damage and spinal injuries, whether caused by an accident or a mistake during medical treatment. Jon has also handled professional negligence claims against solicitors and counsel in a range of fields, including conveyancing and personal injury.
He has a keen interest in trying to improve the lives of those who suffer from a disability, and much of his practice focuses upon clients who have suffered serious head and brain injuries.
Career
Jon qualified 1992 and joined Bindmans LLP in 1999.
Memberships
AvMA’s Clinical Negligence Panel; Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel; Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; appointed to Headway list of panel solicitors in 2007; Professional Negligence Lawyers’ Association.
Education
Jon graduated from the University of Manchester in 1985 with a BA (Hons) Politics & Modern History.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Bindmans LLP’s clinical negligence team maintains ‘a very high level of pastoral support for clients’, taking on only complex cases involving catastrophic and very serious injury under the leadership of ‘extremely experienced‘ Jon Crocker. The firm’s wider human rights expertise heightens the team’s ability to support clients in very complex psychiatric injury and suicide cases, and is particularly key to its specialism regarding substandard treatment of those in prison or detained. Yagmur Ekici is recommended as ‘an absolute star‘. Alla Murphy has particular specialist experience handling catastrophic neurological, orthopaedic and psychiatric injury cases for both individual clients and multiparty groups.
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Leading individuals)Bindmans LLP‘s ‘exceptional’ personal injury team is lauded for its ability to deal with ‘traumatised clients in complex circumstances‘, with particular strength in cases involving complex causation issues – an area in which Alla Murphy has specialist experience. Areas of expertise include catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims; orthopaedic injuries; psychiatric injuries; and complex pain conditions, including those which have been difficult to diagnose, with additional experience in multiparty claims. Jon Crocker leads the team, specialising in claims involving brain damage or amputation. Yagmur Ekici is praised for her ‘detailed and considered insights’; she has particular strength in cases involving complex quantum issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
- Clinical negligence: claimant London > Insurance
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