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Jeremy  Horton

Jeremy Horton

Brachers, South East

Work Department

Personal Injury

Position

Partner (Personal injury)

Career

Jeremy is the lead Partner of Brachers’ Personal Injury and Industrial Disease team. He specialises in serious and complex personal injury claims. Jeremy is the only APIL Accredited Asbestos Disease Specialist in Kent, Medway, Essex, Sussex and Surrey.

Jeremy obtained a first class honours degree in Law from Nottingham University in 1989. He trained with Collyer Bristow between 1990 and 1992 and joined Brachers upon qualification, specialising in personal injury work.

For seven years, he worked for defendants/insurers. From 1999 he acted predominantly for claimants. However, he now often represents uninsured defendants as well , i.e. those facing historic asbestos or other industrial disease claims.

Jeremy is a member and accredited Senior Litigator of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and is currently the only solicitor in Kent, Medway, Essex, Sussex or Surrey to be accredited by them as an Occupational and Asbestos Disease Specialist.

Jeremy specialises in:

Industrial and occupational disease claims

Asbestos and mesothelioma claims

Psychiatric injury and work stress claims

RSI / WRULD claims

Fatal accidents and serious personal injury claims

Head and brain injury claims

Memberships

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers