Adrian has represented schools, colleges and education institutions for over 25 years, initially in litigation and over the last 10 years on school and academy trust structures and governance. Adrian represented successful Defendant in the High Court matter of NWABUDIKE v SOUTHWARK LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL (1996) in which the school was found not responsible in a negligence action relating to a child who had absconded from a school. Adrian has been heavily involved in the academy conversions programme across the country and leads the academy conversions team from the Nottingham office. Adrian has supported all categories of school through the conversion process, including mainstream, special, pupil referral units, VA, VC, foundation and trust schools. In addition, he has also advised schools, colleges and local authorities on a wide range of education law and academy issues including group structures and sponsorship. Adrian currently acts for academy trusts and sponsors in merger and rebrokerage projects. Adrian has presented at large numbers of sector events in the past 12 months and has shared platforms with ASCL, the DFE, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and various sector commercial suppliers including PS Financials. Adrian is regularly asked to present as a guest speaker at academies updates sessions for firms of accountants. Adrian regularly presents a slot on academies and multi-academy trusts for Mercia Training aimed at training accountants on developments in the academies and multi-academies sector. These events take place every year in June and September in The East Midlands and London respectively. Adrian has supported many groups of schools in developing their strategy for group working and thereafter creating Multi-Academy Trusts and providing further advice and support when they expand or take on further schools. This year Adrian has been heavily involved with partnerships of schools looking to formulate their strategies for the future and he has facilitated a number working party group session meetings as a preliminary to creating group structures and Multi-Academy Trusts.
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Alan is a Partner specialising in dispute resolution both in the UK and the USA, multiple claims and risk management analysis; acts on behalf of professional advisors.
Alex qualified with Browne Jacobson and has worked in the Government and Infrastructure team since qualification. He has a strong subsidy control, public procurement and projects practice, specialising in regeneration and energy projects. He also leads the firm’s subsidy control team. He primarily works for local authority clients but has been engaged by NHS Trusts, education bodies and central government. Alex advises on both contentious and non-contentious procurement law, and will assist clients in preparing their tender specifications and evaluation criteria as well as drafting contractual terms. He also audits procurement processes prior to contract award and will review tender processes on behalf of claimants. He regularly acts as the lead adviser coordinating input from colleagues across the firm on these projects. He is the firm’s ‘go-to’ State aid lawyer and is regularly approached by public bodies and universities directly to advise on these areas. To supplement his expertise in this areas he has completed the Law Society’s Diploma in Local Government Law and practice (for which he was awarded a distinction and the law society prize for the best candidate in the country) and has recently completed a secondment with the London Borough of Enfield. Alex has spent the past few years building his local government practice and recent highlights include: Advising Oxford City Council on the Energy Superhub Oxford – including the UK’s largest EV charging superhub located on two existing park and ride sites. Advising Manchester City Council on its city centre District Heating Scheme: this is an ambitious and high profile DH project in a complex city centre site. The Council is planning to provide heat and power to private customers in the area as well as its own buildings, requiring a robust corporate structure and involving several intricate points of procurement law, such as the interaction between the Public Contracts Regulations and Utilities Contracts Regulations in the context of energy projects. Advising Tandridge District council on its £62M procurement of a waste contractor using the competitive procedure with negotiation under the PCR 2015. This is a high value and strategic contract for the Council and Alex is advising on procurement and contractual matters and leading the wider team providing property, data and employment advice. Advising the London Borough of Enfield (LBE) on its industrial regeneration project on the montagu estate: Alex advised on the tender process to appoint a preferred joint venture developer partner and has now completed all agreements with the preferred bidder and advising LBE on land assembly. Preparing national guidance for DBEIS on powers, procurement and State aid issues in district heating schemes. Advising the London Borough of Enfield on the Lee Valley district heating project: this is a large district heating project which will be used to serve commercial and residential customers. Advising Cheshire East Council on its regeneration of Crewe town centre in preparation for HS2.
Amelia is a Senior Associate in our health team with many years’ experience as a solicitor resolving clinical negligence claims, acting on behalf of NHS Resolution and NHS Trusts and has also represented claimants. Amelia leads on the clinical risk management work we do for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts and our other health clients. She is involved in a number of projects to identify the learning from claims and inquests to support wider patient safety and quality improvement work, including undertaking ‘deep dive’ analysis of inquests and claims we have concluded for individual NHS Trusts to highlight and examine specific trends and identify learning from these experiences to prevent harm and hopefully also reduce litigation.
Andrew is a legal director in our Nottingham MPS team. He is a very experienced litigator with a wealth of expertise in high value, complex litigation against health professionals.
Anja is a partner in the Government and Infrastructure Team at Browne Jacobson, with over 11 years of acting for both public and private sector clients in relation to procurement and projects as well as being recognised for her wider understanding and experience of local government decision-making. Anja has developed a clear specialism in public procurement and local government alternative service delivery models built during her career. She previously worked for Sheffield City Council. Anja acts as a trusted advisor to local and central government and health sector clients. The highlights of Anja’s recent public procurement and local government work include: Working as a key advisor to the London Borough of Croydon for the disaggregation of their current IT arrangements and procuring up to 9 new service specific contracts, worth over £30million. Advising Shropshire Council on the purchase of three shopping centres in Shrewsbury for circa £50million. Anja advised on all non-property and tax issues, including powers of investment, reporting and procurement issues. This has led to several current instructions in relation to property investment and procurement of works contracts. Continuing to act as strategic advisor to Harlow District Council in relation to their relationship with and management of their wholly-owned companies, including delivering training, advising on decision-making and contract variation, for services worth over £17million per annum. Playing a key role in being successfully appointed as the sole legal advisors to the London Borough of Croydon for a minimum period of 5 years. Anja acts as deputy project manager, alongside Craig Elder, and supports the Council in all aspects of integrating the Council and Browne Jacobson teams. Legal services are estimated to be worth £2million per annum. Advising the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to their £100million plus suite of IT contracts, a five year project that completed in 2018.
Anna is a Senior Associate working within the firm’s Healthcare Team in the insurance and public risk department. She specialises in defending clinical negligence claims, acting on behalf of the NHSLA and healthcare trusts.
Beth Dowson qualified into the tax team at Browne Jacobson in 2006, and is a Legal Director in the team. The main specialisms in her practice are property tax, employee share schemes, and corporate transactions, including vendor tax planning. She also advises a range of clients in the SME sector on employee and management incentives, including on HMRC approved and unapproved share schemes.
Carl May-Smith is a partner and barrister specialising in regulatory and criminal law with a particular focus on the health and care sector. He and his team provide a broad variety of advice including on health and care standards (CQC and others), health & safety and fire safety. His clients include care providers (independent and NHS), investors (in health and care sector businesses or otherwise), companies requiring proactive or regulatory litigation advice and public bodies. Carl has considerable experience of advising and representing individuals and corporate bodies, whether they are facing regulatory or criminal investigations or proceedings, have been the victims of crime or are involved in such proceedings less directly. At other times he provides proactive advice and training to businesses and others on regulatory matters to help them avoid such issues arising. For investors, banks and insurers, particularly in the health and care sector, Carl and his team offer specialist due diligence services. He works alongside commercial and corporate colleagues or independently to apply his wealth of experience to help identify existing or potential regulatory risks. In addition to this work, Carl has advised and represented national and local regulators including the Health and Safety Executive, Care Quality Commission, Natural England, local authorites and fire authorities. He regularly appears as an advocate in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts as well as in Tribunals and at inquests.
Catherine is a specialist charities solicitor who advises charities, not for profit organisations, social enterprises, charity trustees and individuals wishing to establish charities. Her particular focus is on constitutional and governance matters including different legal structures and the duties and responsibilities of charity trustees. Catherine operates across the health, education, arts, public and private sectors and advises a diverse client portfolio including national, regional and local charities, not-for-profit organisations, community groups, schools, colleges, churches, welfare and professional associations.
Ceri-Siân is a Senior Associate in our social care team. She specialises in defending claims against local authorities including defending allegations of abuse against employees of a local authority, foster parents, and professional negligence against social workers. With experience of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, Ceri Siân was heavily involved in the case of Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council (2017), the leading case on vicarious liability for foster carers.Her technical expertise is called upon be a range of clients and she also oversees our recovery project.
Chloe specialises in commercial litigation and contentious insolvency. She advises clients on breaches of contract; misrepresentation claims; supplier/consumer disputes; breach of restrictive covenants; injunctions; shareholder disputes; fraud; office holder claims; and cross-border recoveries. Chloe acts for both public/private sector clients across a variety of sectors. Chloe has a particular specialism in cases that involve breaches of restrictive covenants by senior executives; contentious IT matters; defective goods/services; and disputes in the energy, manufacturing and retail sectors. She has maturity and experience way beyond her years of qualification, developed through her constant dedication to providing clients with the service normally expected at partner level.
Chris is a partner and joined the firm in January 2013 having worked in-house at a large acute NHS Trust for four years. He is a solicitor advocate (civil) and regularly appears in both the Court of Protection and the Coroner’s court, conducting his own advocacy. Chris brings a wealth of experience and a varied practice from his time working in-house and has subsequently undertaken long term secondments in both a major independent health sector provider and a mental health Trust. He sits on an acute NHS Trust Clinical Ethics Committee and specialises in in all aspects of mental health law, mental capacity, Court of Protection and coronial law. He is a regular speaker at training events across the country.
Chris specialises in acting for education sector clients on a wide range of property matters, academy conversions and the acquisition and disposal of school land. He has personally advised in relation to over 500 schools nationally on the property aspects of their conversion to academy status, as well as numerous rebrokerage projects, both freehold and leasehold. This includes dealing with shared use agreements, third party access, PFI, City Learning Centres, chance to share agreements and other issues affecting school sites. Chris has also been involved on the property aspects of BSF and PSBP projects. Such is his reputation, Chris was headhunted by the Education and Skills Funding Agency for a 12-month secondment in 2013 to assist in the delivery of the property transactions required under the Free Schools, Studio Schools and UTC Programmes.
Claire (legal director) has over 17 years’ experience, acting for several household names including Walgreens Boots Alliance, a luxury retail brand group (LVMH-confidential) in the retail sector and DPDGroup in relation to storage and distribution. Claire has substantial experience of work at prime retail locations such as New Bond Street, Sloane Street Mayfair and Covent Garden and in several large shopping destinations and at Bicester Village. Claire is also the go-to person for logistics instructions, having acted for DPDGroup on all of their warehouse acquisitions this year and for Alloga.
Craig is a Partner in Browne Jacobson’s Government and Infrastructure Team and takes a lead on major projects, procurements and high-value local and central government work. Craig has over fifteen years’ experience advising public and private sector bodies in relation to PFI, PPP and other long term commercial arrangements.
Damian is a Partner in our Nottingham office and acted for the Defendant Justyna Zeromska-Smith v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 980 (QB); [2019] 4 WLUK 293 – a case of significance with regard toi anonymity order and secondary victims in psychiatric damages (and cited in the Court of Appeal And commented upon in leading practitioner textbooks). Damian is currently engaged in a project with NHS Resolution and the University of Nottingham seeking to improve complaint responses provided to patients by NHS organisations. Working with other stakeholders (including the PHSO), it is hoped this will help NHS organisations resolve patients concerns effectively. He leads teams of lawyers advising on claims covering a wide breadth of value and complexity, including particularly claims involving mental health and an ongoing high profile group action.
Dawn is a highly experienced Legal Director with over 19 years’ experience in all aspects of employment law and has been involved in numerous complex, high value and high profile employment issues. Dawn works for a wide variety of clients including those in the public sector as well as commercial clients. She has a particular expertise and experience in dealing with complex tribunal claims. She also regularly advises commercial and public sector clients on TUPE issues.
Derek specialises in all aspects of professional and institutional default, management liability, insurance coverage and contentious insolvency.
Emily is an employment specialist with 9 years experience, who advises both public and private sector clients in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. These include disciplinary procedures and grievances, tribunal claims, unfair dismissal, redundancies and restructures, contractual issues, TUPE advice, reviewing of policies and procedures, discrimination and whistleblowing.
Associate, Emma, joined Browne Jacobson as the Professional Development Lawyer for Business Services, being responsible for supporting the department in relation to their precedent documents, know-how bank and ongoing training. She is also involved in providing technical support on complex matters and works with the firm’s risk and compliance team. Emma has over 10 years’ experience of advising on corporate transactions – including acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses, management buy-outs and buy-ins, as well as group reorganisations. Emma has also advised on various company law aspects, including: the formation of partnerships and LLPs corporate governance and compliance issues directors’ and company secretaries’ duties shareholder agreements and joint venture agreements share capital issues, including reductions of capital and buybacks advising on procedures involved in company general meetings advising shareholders regarding their rights and in connection with shareholder disputes. Emma has acted for a varied client base, from private individuals and owner managed businesses to large private companies and listed plcs.
Emma is a Partner in our insolvency practice specialising in both corporate and personal, and contentious and non-contentious matters. As a psychology graduate, Emma’s professional career began in the legal department at Muller Dairy UK. She returned to College to convert to law before going on to qualify at Eversheds in 2009. Emma is highly experienced in all forms of insolvency procedure and practice. The nature of insolvency referrals means that Emma has experience across a range of sectors including: retail, IT, education, local government, healthcare, construction, energy and agriculture. She is accustomed to acting in unusual situations and has a calming and methodical style which can help put clients at ease. Emma is regularly instructed to advise directors on their duties, on the risks of insolvency and on the appointment of insolvency practitioners through to the sale of assets and/or antecedent recovery actions. Recent instructions include advising a sub-tenant on the effect of a Part 26 Restructuring Plan and obtaining an amendment to that Plan to avoid the immediate termination of those sub-leases; advising directors on the implications of the Loan Charge and on their liabilities as a result of entry into various tax avoidance schemes; acting for a buyer of a going concern media company from administrators; and obtaining a court order to appoint the majority directors’ choice of administrators in hostile circumstances.
Fiona has developed a broad professional disciplinary practice in education and healthcare over the last 21 years. Praised for ‘stellar advice which takes pitfalls into account’, she is now a trusted legal advisor to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) and sits as Legal Advisor to the Professional Conduct Committee of the Chartered Institute of Building. Fiona is a key name in a highly responsive team has strategically advised both the Teaching Regulation Agency and Department of Education in relation to the first ever case in which a teacher was prosecuted for failing to comply with the Prevent Duty as defined by s.26(1) of the Counter-terrorism and Security Act 2015. Fiona’s health practice sees her instructed in a wide range of cases from simple ‘documentary’ inquests to complex Article 2 cases, often with a high media profile. She has acted on behalf of NHS Trusts (acute, mental health, community and ambulance), local authorities, education settings, security regulators and insurers both locally and nationally. Fiona is a registered pupil supervisor with the Bar Standards Board and having pioneered the way for Browne Jacobson to become an approved Pupillage Training Organisation in 2010 and has successfully trained four barristers and assisted with the training of four others.
Gabor has a recognised expertise in social housing development work and complex funding work and has led on the securitisation of more than £1bn of affordable housing over the last 5 years. Additionally, Gabor is currently acting for major national housing association clients assisting in the delivery of thousands of much needed affordable housing dwellings. Clients include (amongst others) Platform, EMH, NCHA, Longhurst, Midland Heart, Minster Property Group and Tuntum. Gabor (and the team as a whole) is sought out by an extensive range of clients because of this social housing expertise; including not only housing associations but also private-sector developers, funders and public bodies.
Helen has over 13 years of costs experience in both the Claimant and Defendant market, with extensive experience of a spectrum of civil litigation, personal injury and medical negligence type cases. Helen deals with cases of all levels of value and complexity, from the most straightforward matters to the high value, complex and novel. From the initial drafting of a schedule of costs, through to detailed assessment if required, Helen manages her files with an emphasis on maximising costs recovery for the client. Helen uses her knowledge to obtain the best result in the shortest time frame possible. Helen’s approach to costs and personable style ensures that her client’s receive the best possible service at all times. Helen also has experience of undertaking client Audits and providing internal and external training courses and also assists with the management and development of the costs team.
Helen is a Senior Associate in the corporate team and has experience advising on all aspects of corporate work. Helen specialises in complex group reorganisations often involving capital reduction demergers, dividends, capital reductions, intra-group business and asset transfers, reorganisations of share capital, share-buybacks and s.110 schemes and leads the team in this area. Helen also has experience providing technical company law advice, advising on the corporate aspects of Family Constitutions and advising registered societies, LLPs, property management companies and companies limited by guarantee.
Helen leads the delegated authority claims handling team in Nottingham. This handles a high volume (thousands) of claims a year for FTSE 250 insurers specialising in professional negligence, D&O, public liability property damage and employment practices liability insurance. Helen has particular experience handling claims against non-traditional professions in the SME market ranging from letting agents, wedding photographers to funeral directors. Helen also has good experience of policy coverage investigations and disputes.
Helen is a Senior Associate in the Health, Advisory and Litigation Team (HAL) at Browne Jacobson. She runs a complex, high value portfolio of cases including birth injury, spinal, brain injury, and amputation claims. She supervises trainee solicitors and junior solicitors within the team. She is a Deputy Team Leader for a NHS Resolution team. Helen regularly delivers training to HAL and clients. A particular interest is quantum and she delivers training on basic and complex quantum. She also delivers training on Fatal Accident Claims.
Helen has over 20 years’ experience, defending high profile civil liability claims for commercial insurers and organisations in the public and private sector. Helen’s background in health and care sees her regularly advising clients where there is an overlap between health and care issues in claims, including issues of human rights breaches, professional negligence, public liability allegations and fatality claims. Given the nature of these claims many carry an element of press coverage and reputational risk and Helen’s clients turn to her to coordinate response to investigations by police, HSE, safeguarding and CQC together with coordinated press releases (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tate-modern-attacker-care-cut-21458655 - confidential) as well as handling the complex civil claims. Helen’s clients include the NHS Resolution, for which she is the national Nominated Partner lead and is responsible for the strategic direction of non-clinical claims. With her specialist health and care background, Helen has been advising the DHSC and NHS Resolution through the Covid-19 pandemic on policies and emerging risks (confidential). Helen is also lead partner for Markel (UK) Ltd and Nottinghamshire County Council, advising on their complex claims and supporting with their organisation’s learning, risk profile and claims strategies.
Herjit has a large portfolio of claims consisting mostly of insurer-backed employers’ and public liability claims. These range from high value claims with some cases exceeding reserves of £750,000. She also deals with high value multi-track motor claims. She has a particular interest in counter fraud having overseen the counter fraud team in Nottingham and Birmingham with a portfolio of claims involving LVIs, staged/contrived accidents, multi-party fraud and bogus passenger claims. Her counter fraud experience particulary with the Health clients has seen a number of successful repudiations which invariably resulted in recovery of our costs. Herjit plays a key part in delivering an exceptional quality service to all of our motor clients; ensuring team compliance with SLAs and internal protocols. She is also responsible for delivering key management information on a monthly basis, which outlines the status of each case, up to date reserves and current defence spend. More recently she has advised and is defending claims where bullying and harrassment form the basis of their allegations; as well as dealing with claims involving cyber crime.
Iain joined the firm in 1993, specialising in corporate transaction work for both private and public sector clients, as well as partnership and LLP issues. He became a Partner in 1999 and then head of our business services department in 2008. In May 2009, Iain took on the role of Managing Partner and over 11 years presided over a period of unprecedented growth and activity for the firm, before stepping down in April 2020. Iain now has a focus on Governance and Leadership, with three key aspects 1) executive leadership coaching - Iain is a qualified and accredited executive coach 2) business structures – corporates, family companies, reorganisations, LLPs and partnerships, and 3) private client – wills, trusts and estate planning.
Ian is a Nominated Partner for NHS Resolution and works on complex, high value and high profile claims. Ian has a close working relationship with NHS Resolution and is regularly involved in the client’s working parties and projects. He is a Divisional Lead responsible for 3 of our national teams. He has a particular interest in wrongful birth claims and cases involving the ambulance service. He is client partner for 2 of our large Trust clients and leads on our client relationship management work for Trusts. He is a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers Sector Focus Team for clinical negligence charged with developing policy, engaging in thought-leadership and facilitating training for members.
John heads up a team of six costs specialities, provides costs services across the firm, dealing with a whole manner of costs litigation from the various teams and disciplines nationwide. The team is practiced in the costs of personal injury work (ELPL, RTA, health & disease) as well as dealing with professional risk & commercial cases. John has invaluable experience in dealing with costs management and the tactical ways to combat QOCS, ensuring that his clients recover as much as possible when they are entitled to doing so, as well as controlling legal spend across the board. On a day to day basis John’s case load is predominantly high value cases and technical advocacy, including significant group litigation from our social care teams, covering a range of disciplines.
Jonathan specialises in defendant public liability work including employers’, occupiers’ and highways liability cases from initial instruction to trial. Including small claims, fast and multi track work.
Jonathan specialises in dealing with claims with a financial services or management liability element. He has particular expertise in policy coverage matters. He also regularly assists underwriters with the drafting of policy wording and advises insurers on strategy and risk management across professional indemnity books of business. Jonathan is head of Browne Jacobson’s Financial & Professional Risks Group in Exeter, London and Nottingham, which comprises 12 Partners, 16 Solicitors and 8 Legal Assistants. He is one of Browne Jacobson’s leading partners for insurance coverage disputes. He advises on both primary layer and excess layer insurance matters. His coverage work has arisen primarily out of professional negligence matters but he has also received notable instructions in the context of product liability, property, public liability and employers’ liability covers. He spends the majority of his time providing strategic advice to one of Browne Jacobson’s most significant clients, Hiscox Insurance Co Ltd. As part of his role as the partner with key responsibility for managing that client relationship Jonathan also takes responsibility for the delegated authority claims handling schemes that we successfully run for Hiscox in relation to many hundreds of professional liability and employment practices liability claims.
Jude specialises in professional negligence disputes defending particularly estate agents, solicitors, IFAs and insurance brokers. Also advises on policy coverage issues.
Kassra specialises in development and strategic land transactions, acting for landowners on option and promotion agreements for housing led developments as well as acting for private developers and local authorities on mixed use and commercial developments. His experience of acting for a wide range of clients – landowners, developers, local authorities, promoters – gives Kassra an understanding of all the players in a property development and can guide clients through the competing demands and conflicts that will arise along the way.
Kate specialises in defending historic abuse litigation, and negligence claims against professionals working in the social care, education and voluntary sectors. Particular expertise in multi-party group actions and complex failure to remove claims.
Katie joined Browne Jacobson as a trainee in 2007 and has nearly ten years of experience as an education lawyer. In her early career (2010), she completed a secondment to the in-house legal team at The Girls’ Day School Trust. She now advises maintained schools and academy trusts on a range of education law issues including governance, admissions, safeguarding, school intervention and parental complaints. Katie has been heavily involved in the academy conversion programme following the implementation of the Academies Act 2010. She has advised on the corporate and commercial aspects of hundreds of academy projects including the creation and expansion of multi-academy trusts and the conversion of church schools, special schools and pupil referral units. She was the lead lawyer on the first hospital school conversion in the country. She now focuses largely on group projects, working closely with a number of multi-academy trusts on their expansion, including academy merger and re-brokerage projects. Katie has also developed a particular area of expertise in school intervention and Ofsted advice and leads on this part of the firm’s practice. She provides advice to schools and academies who may be vulnerable to formal intervention measures from their local authority or the Secretary of State, including launching judicial review proceedings. She also supports schools with challenging Ofsted inspections and seeking delay to publication. As part of her work in the area of school intervention, Katie contributed to representations made to Parliament on the Education and Adoption Bill. Katie regularly speaks at seminars and national conferences including, for example, the Optimus Child Protection conference and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) Annual Conference, as well as delivering bespoke training to governing bodies and senior leadership teams on topics such as exclusions, governance and safeguarding. She has also featured in the education press having written articles for publications such as Schools Week, The Voice (an Institute of Schools Business Leadership publication) and Attendance Matters and has been interviewed for education pieces in The Guardian and LexisPSL. She also regularly contributes to the Association of School and College Leader’s (ASCL) Leader magazine and has written briefing notes for the NAHT and Optimus as well as Browne Jacobson’s own newsletters and website. She has also delivered webinars on topics such as digital safeguarding, parental access to information and re-brokerage. Katie leads a mentoring scheme with Greenwood Academies Trust which offers career and pastoral support to students at local academies, including one-to-one mentoring and work experience.
Kelly is a senior associate and specialises in clinical negligence on behalf of NHS Resolution and healthcare trusts.
Kelly is a Partner in the Nottingham NHS Resolution team and has been actively involved in a number of the leading cases included within our submission, in particular [non-publishable matter 1]. Kelly has extensive experience of acting in high value and/or complex clinical negligence claims for NHS bodies including NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts and NHS England along with GPs and privately insured doctors. Kelly has a wealth of understanding of the legal landscape regarding informed consent following her involvement in the leading Court of Appeal case of Shaw v Kovac. She has worked with NHS Trusts and clinicians to provide an insight into this important and developing area of law and medical ethics. See for example our video blog on consent. https://www.brownejacobson.com/health/training-and-resources/training-videos/2018/11/consent-for-clinicians She is one of the team’s mediation champions and has considerable experience of mediating the most complex and sensitive cases. This includes successful resolution of a group action involving multiple patients, a very high value claim where a GP had suffered significant physical harm during childbirth and a teenage suicide case which was covered by BBC’s Panorama programme.
Laura Hughes is public and administrative law lawyer, specialising in all aspects of decision making by public bodies. She regularly advises on governance, regulatory regimes, consultation, appeals, judicial reviews, planning law, environment and inquiries. Laura is client partner for a number of "household name" clients in the public sector, such as Welsh Government, the National Audit Office, Sports England, Natural Resources Wales, UK Sport, Qualifications Wales, Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Arts Council for England. She is trusted by clients to run their most high profile matters, and advise on matters of strategic importance. This year she has advised on a number of high profile and complex matters for her clients. She has advised Qualifications Wales in relation to all matters concerning the cancellation of exams in 2020 and 2021, and on how grading should occur in the absence of assessments. This involved regular attendance at QW Board, as well as being part of QW’s internal project team, and attending meetings with the Minister. She has also advised Northern Ireland Audit Office in relation to their extraordinary audit of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Welsh Government on Building Safety legislative and organisational reform, Natural Resources Wales on strategic flooding issues and UK Sport on governance issues associated with the This Girl Can campaign.
Leah is a Partner in the Complex Claims and Social Care Team and, in addition to her full case load, she is also part of the leadership team, managing a team of lawyers. Leah has a broad client base of both public body and insurer clients. She regularly delivers bespoke training and workshops to clients and internally. Leah is technically excellent and has a busy case load of complex, high value and sensitive claims with a focus on claims in the health and social care and higher education sectors, both public and private. Her experience encompasses: actions relating to historical sexual abuse and neglect; claims for breach of HRA including Art 2 (Right to Life), Art 3 (inhumane treatment) Art 5 (Deprivation of Liberty), Art 6 (right to a fair trial) and Art 8 (Right to Private and Family Life); representation of intervener in public care proceedings; discrimination claims (primarily in higher education settings); actions for defamation and misuse of private information; stress, bullying and harassment at work claims; and catastrophic injury/disease claims for both public and employers’ liability e.g. mesothelioma; double amputation workplace injury.
Leanne is a Partner in our commercial health practice specialising in the health and social care sector and also leads the firm’s dedicated independent healthcare group. She advises NHS trusts, private and third sector clients and GPs on corporate law and corporate governance and contracting issues. Her experience includes handling joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins and a variety of contractual matters including advising on the NHS Standard Contract. She also advises on LLP and partnership matters.
Lorna heads the UK clinical negligence practice and is Browne Jacobson’s national lead partner for NHS Resolution, taking responsibility for the quality of all the work we do for this client and the support we provide to it and its member trusts. She has been a Nominated Partner since 2010 and has more than 25 years’ experience of advising NHS and private bodies on healthcare litigation, particularly complex and high value claims, inquests and serious incidents. She is also client partner for a number of Trusts.
Senior Associate, Lorraine, specialises in professional indemnity claims; defending professionals in the property, legal and financial services sectors; also advises in relation to insurance coverage disputes.
Mark is a leading name in the East Midlands market, with a particular focus on private equity transactions for sponsors as well as Management Teams. In 2019, Mark led a number of transactions for long standing client SDL Property Services Group, advised Apiary Capital on its acquisition of G3, acted for the founders on the disposal of Scarsdale Vets to IVC, advised Littlefish on its investment by LDC, and acted for Belvoir Lettings plc on a number of transactions.
Mark joined the firm in 2008 and specialises in retail and commercial real estate including leases of property in high street, shopping centre, and business park locations. Mark also deals with lease management matters including consents for alterations and rebranding for retailers with large estates, and land management matters including the grant of easements for one of the UK’s largest landowners. Mark advises national and international retailers including leading high street brands, as well as heritage conservation organisations and charities, and one of the UK’s leading construction consultancies. Competencies: Mark specialises in commercial real estate, advising on a range of property matters including in relation to leases and 1954 Act renewals (where he has acted for landlords and tenants), acquisitions and disposals of leasehold and freehold land, as well as ongoing lease management matters such as agreements for works and consents to underlet or assign.
Mark Lewis heads up the firms property finance team which specialises in secured property lending. Mark’s team supports the banking and finance team as well as independently acting on property finance transactions (development, investment and agricultural). Mark specialises in acting for many banks and alternative debt providers as well as acting for borrowers. Mark provides practical commercial advice to our banking and corporate client’s in taking security over/lending against property. Mark is known for being easy to use, approachable, proactive and always prepared to “give a view”. Mark has strong connections across the East and West Midlands and as a result has bought in a number of banking clients/work into the team, specifically from HSBC, Natwest, Handelsbanken, Shawbrook, Clydesdale Bank and Cambridge & Counties Bank. Mark’s recent highlights include: advising a high street bank in a £15m forward fund of a mixed use development in Rickmansworth which is anchored by household name tenants; acting for Clydesdale Bank in the funding of the purchase of a 96,000 square foot warehouse in Leicester acting for a high street bank in a £9.3m hotel development in Chester; advising a two bank syndicated club on its £80m lend to an independent healthcare acting for the sellers on the MBO of Genesis Dental Group which comprised of 11 dentist sites acting for PCT Healthcare Ltd in its £80m acquisition of 64 pharmacies from WR Evans (Chemist) Limited. This was Insider East Midlands Dealmakers Awards 2016 ‘Deal of the Year’
Matthew, a Senior Associate with the firm, specialises in resolving disputes and advising on investigations in the financial services sector. In addition, he has extensive experience of resolving professional liability claims and coverage disputes.
Neil Walker is a Legal Director in the Built Environment team of our Real Estate department, with over 25 years’ experience in advising a wide range of private and public sector body clients on a variety of commercial real estate matters Neil’s primary focus is in advising a wide range of local authority clients (and their companies) on commercial property issues and he has particular expertise in leading, managing and advising on complex regeneration, infrastructure delivery and commercial/residential/mixed-use development matters, including forward funding of new-build projects, and he works closely with our construction, tax, planning and environmental, commercial and public law colleagues He also advises local authorities on site assembly, acquisitions and disposals and on investment property transactions including portfolio acquisitions and provides lead real estate support to commercial colleagues on wider public sector projects including the outsourcing of leisure and social care services Neil also present seminars and webinars and delivers internal and client training sessions.
Nik specialises in professional liability claims against a broad span of advisers, particularly surveyors and valuers, estate agents, lawyers, designers and renewable energy consultants. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are key client relationships. Nik is also admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and is listed as an approved Arbitrator on CEDR’s UK panel for commercial arbitration appointments.
Paul is a partner in the Corporate team (having been promoted from Senior Associate in May 2019) specialising in M&A, private equity and general company law. He has a focus on driving the team’s technology sector, including advising on the disposal of an industry leading gaming manufacturer and developer Reflex Gaming. He advised sellers and management on the private equity backed tertiary buy out of CARE Fertility Group funded by Silverfleet Capital, as well continuing to act on numerous “add-on” acquisitions for CARE. He also advised the shareholders of Delamin Nitriding Salts on the sale of its industrial salts business to the US subsidiary Parker Trutec Inc of Japanese parent company Nihon Parkerizing Co.
Paula specialises in intellectual property and technology law. Paula has a wide range of experience in non-contentious work in this area, including, in particular, advising technology companies on IP protection and exploitation strategies and clients in the retail and manufacturing sectors on brand protection. Paula has advised on research and development arrangements between innovative private sector companies and academia and also on sponsorship and joint venture arrangements entered into by a well-known figure in the rural estates sector. Paula has also continued to advise one of our longstanding clients in the outdoor clothing sector on the strategic direction of its IP portfolio, and also a world leader in explosives and blasting with a reputation for technological innovation, on the exploitation of third party generated IP, including licensing arrangements and IP protection strategies. Paula continues to advise brand-rich manufacturers in the sectors of sports and leisure, food, retail, distribution and luxury clothing on the strategic management of their trade mark portfolios. Paula is a key member of the firm’s IT and outsourcing business development team and she also has a particular interest in the development of the firm’s HealthTech work.
Peter is the head of the Government Sector at the firm. He is a recognised expert in public procurement being on various editorial boards and industry bodies. Peter is a regular speaker at various national conferences. Having worked for a local authority for a number of years he can also bring his sector insight to the advice he gives. His clients particularly value the practical ways he advises on the challenges they face.
Peter is a partner in our team and heads our national employment practice. He has over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious issues. He advises on a wide range of employment related subjects. He acts for many high profile organisations in both the public and private sector. He leads the insurance employment claims handling team and HR team. Peter assists with risk assessment associated with employment related situations and the management of such risk, including: • advising on procedures leading to termination of employment including disciplinary matters and settlement agreements; • advising on grievances and their consequences; • dealing with claims relating to redundancy, discrimination, unfair and wrongful dismissal and other contentious employment matters; • dealing with circumstances (including disputes and industrial action) involving trade unions and other employee representatives; • providing training to clients in relation to employment related topics; and • regularly advising on all non-contentious employment issues such as TUPE and the drafting and implementation of contracts and other related documentation.
Rachel is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Commercial Health Team and heads up our health sector procurement practice. Rachel has developed a well-respected practice in the area of public procurement specialising in the complex area of health and social care procurement. As a result of her in-depth knowledge of NHS governance and structures combined with her procurement practice Rachel is advising on strategic and innovative NHS models aimed at delivering the Long Term Plan. On the contentious front the highlight of Rachel’s year is being instructed by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to act for it, the preferred provider, in the disputed Nottingham Treatment Centre litigation (Circle Nottingham v NHS Rushcliffe CCG [2019 EHWC] 135). The Trust’s position was instrumental in securing the lifting of the Automatic Suspension and allowing the CCG to contract with the Trust to bring forward the sought after service redesign. Rachel’s role in this and other matters attracts continual praise from clients: “Rachel has been an absolute star”, “I’d particularly like to thank Rachel who even when I was “agitated” by our competitors managed to remain calm and professional at all ALL times” and “she knows so much off the top of her head”. Rachel’s technical legal skills coupled with her ability to provide pragmatic and commercial advice is one of the reasons she has a growing and loyal client base and why she has picked up a number of significant new clients this year both on the buyer and provider side. Other highlights of Rachel’s recent public procurement work include: Successfully defending a number of procurement challenges on behalf NHS bodies including CCGs and NHS Trusts. Providing specialist regulatory due diligence support to foreign companies looking to invest in UK companies selling to the public sector. Rachel, together with Louise Bennett, continues to roll out the firm’s programme of ‘Managing procurement risks’ workshops which are aimed at senior procurement officers and in house lawyers at contracting authorities. The workshops have been attended by over 250 delegates and the quality of the events is universally recognised by delegates: “Excellent session, well presented, interactive, different activities and knowledgeable presenter”, “Excellent training day – particularly useful the way in which case studies were used to enable practical application”, “Excellent course. Interactive element was very good” and “very useful overview of a procurement process, especially for those new to procurement disputes. The tactical advice was especially helpful”.
Rebecca Toates, Partner, works within our built environment team and specialises in commercial, residential and mixed-use developments, infrastructure and regeneration schemes. She acts on all aspects from site acquisition, including joint venture and collaboration agreements, through the development process to investment sales and financing (with particular expertise in forward funding). Rebecca acts for both public sector bodies (including Homes England and a significant number of local authorities) and private developers and investors on complex projects and particularly enjoys the project management aspects of coordinating a legal team to meet her clients’ objectives.
Rebecca is a Senior Associate working within the firm’s health advisory and litigation team. She has worked solely in the area of medical negligence since 2010. Rebecca specialises in defending clinical negligence claims, acting on behalf of NHS Resolution and NHS Trusts.
Richard is our Managing Partner and leads the delivery of our strategy. He has 20 years’ experience working with our clients across the private and public sectors as a corporate finance partner, advising on mergers & acquisitions, private equity deals, international transactions, corporate reorganisations and the commercialisation of public services. Before becoming Managing Partner Richard headed up our Business Services department and uses his management experience alongside his expertise in corporate governance derived from his client work to manage all aspects of the firm’s operation.
Richard is a partner on the NHS Resolution team in Nottingham. He supervises a team of junior lawyers dealing with NHS Resolution claims and conducts his own caseload of high value, complex matters. Richard specialises in clinical negligence and advises NHS Resolution and healthcare trusts on patient claims and risk management.He has a particular interest in mediation and leads our cross-office project on this topic.
Rita is a Senior Associate with 30 years’ experience covering a broad spectrum of residential freehold and leasehold property work for private clients, developers, banks, educational establishments, charities, UK companies and off-shore companies.
Robert (partner) has 16 years’ commercial property experience and specialises in property development and strategic land transactions, but also advises on a wide range of more general commercial property matters, acting for and advising a wide range of clients including high net worth private clients, investors, developers, charities and owners of large landed and commercial estates. Robert’s expertise includes advising on conditional property agreements, options, promotion and collaboration agreements, leases and land transfers and advising on a wide range of rural, agricultural and renewable energy property transactions.
Sarah specialises in employment law and provides support to members of the employment team in areas such as know-how, precedents, technical research and training. Prior to taking on this role, Sarah was a partner within Browne Jacobson's employment team and advised both public and private sector clients on a wide range employment law matters including unfair dismissal, redundancy, restructure, contractual issues and all areas of discrimination. Sarah undertook a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work and also conducted her own advocacy in the employment tribunal.
With a strong reputation in the social care arena, Sarah is one of our most experienced Partners focusing exclusively on abuse and safeguarding claims. Sarah is noted for her ‘exceptional experience‘ of defending high-profile sex abuse claims in the 2021 Legal 500. Instructed directly and by insurers of : Sports organisations including national governing bodies Faith groups Private education providers Local Authorities She leads on the firm’s children’s social care publications and forums. She has and continues to lead on a number of group actions and is highly regarded for her fairness and expertise in handling claims against Children’s and Adults’ Services Departments; reflected in the fact that many of those who are frequently her opponents have agreed to be referees. She is also the firm’s specialist on redress schemes. She has experience in taking a number of cases to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, and has a particular focus on costs – sitting as a Deputy Costs Master in the SCCO. She led on the Personal Injury Working Group on Historical Child Abuse claims initiative run by Master McCloud.
Shaun heads up the Nottingham team and is one of the best known lawyers in the East Midlands market place. He heads a team of dedicated banking specialists who have a dominant position in the East Midlands. Shaun advises lenders, private equity houses and corporate borrowers on refinances, acquisitions, development finance, investment finance, asset based lending and general lending matters. Shaun has a particular expertise advising on private equity transactions and advising on asset based lending structures. Shaun is recognised as a leading individual in the legal directories. He is an experienced operator well known in the Midlands market and , during the course of this year, has advised a number of high profile deals including: • advising Palatine Private Equity on the secondary buy out of CET UK supported by senior facilities from Clydesdale Bank and mezzanine facilities from Beechbrook Capital (this transaction was named on East Midlands deal of the year by Business Insider) • advising Littlefish on its MBO backed by Lloyds Development Capital and HSBC (named as SME deal of the year in the West Midlands by Business Insider) • advising Wise Living Homes on a £33m development finance facility provided by ICG Longbow
Sian is a Senior Associate in the Nottingham NHS Resolution team. She specialises in advising NHS Resolution and Trusts on clinical negligence claims. Sian has previous experience working with NHS Trusts to improve patient safety. She leads on NHS Resolution’s Early Notification Scheme aimed at improving safety in maternity care through the early investigation of maternity incidents where babies are born with a potentially severe brain injury. Sian is described as hard working, experienced and reliable, and is praised for her attention to detail.
Simon heads up our health practice nationally, and is responsible for the sector strategy across all of Browne Jacobson’s Offices. His practice is primarily contentious, advising on regulatory matters, inquests, and clinical governance matters. Simon specialises in advising on high profile clinical investigations, including inquests often attracting national press coverage. He is client partner for a number of our key clients including the Medical Protection Society, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Senior Associate, Sophie, is experienced in dealing with a variety of both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. She advises clients from a wide range of sectors in relation to all aspects of employment law, including tribunal claims, TUPE and general HR advisory matters such as disciplinaries, grievances and performance issues. She also has significant experience in dealing with employment documentation, including reviewing and drafting bespoke documents for clients. She is experienced in delivering training seminars and workshops for clients on a variety of employment law topics.
Stephanie advises on policy drafting ranging from health and safety to mental health and wellbeing. She advises and assists in relation to police, fire authority, health and safety and coronial investigations and if necessary the safeguarding process which often runs alongside such investigations. She is also familiar with issues affecting large portfolios of commercial buildings and residential premises and has produced bespoke databases for clients to assist them in managing their regulatory responsibilities as landlords, tenants and building owners. Her breadth of knowledge across the regulatory field makes her an invaluable source of expertise for clients. Stephanie regularly represents public bodies, including fire authorities, and advises in relation to the strength of evidence and liability risks both from a prosecution and defence perspective. She has a particular specialism in dealing with large scale and complex health and safety and corporate manslaughter investigations. She has advised in respect of numerous fatal and non-fatal accident criminal investigations in connection with a variety of industries. This includes deaths on construction sites, agricultural sites, in educational settings and in NHS and local authority premises. She assists clients with disclosure exercises for the purposes of the Coroner’s inquiry and police / regulatory investigations and regularly appears before coroners and magistrates’ courts. She regularly attends interviews under caution with the Health & Safety Executive and the police.
Susan brings her considerable interpersonal skills to firm wide operational leadership of this department across our five-office network. Her experience at working at every level within the firm, along with a natural flair for spotting strengths, means that she is well placed to put the right people in the right roles. She is a qualified business coach and mentor (Institute of Leadership and Management). This involves leading on the delivery of firm strategy through key sector and departmental business planning and making sure they fit with central projects, to include IT case management and Human Resource and Learning and Development activities. Susan is a member of the firm’s Exec as well as the Core Insurance Sector and Local Authority Boards. Locally, Susan leads Nottingham’s Technical Claims and Social Care Team handling a broad range of Defendant personal injury, and RTA related litigation on behalf of Local Authorities, health bodies and other public sector clients, as well as commercial and agricultural organisations. She is an appointed nominated Partner for the NHS Resolution’s Risk Pooling Scheme and thus has responsibility for ensuring high quality service delivery from her team dealing with those claims. Susan is also client relationship partner for a number of commercial insurance and public sector clients. Susan’s work continues as Partner sponsor for the firm’s highly successful apprenticeship scheme, Browne Jacobson being the first law firm to engage a cohort of apprentices within its legal teams.
Susan is a Senior Associate specialising in defending high value and complex employers’ and public liability claims on behalf of the NHS, insurers, local authorities and private companies.
Suzanne is a senior associate who has specialised in personal injury litigation for 28 years. Historically she handled clinical negligence, road traffic, public and employers’ liability claims for both claimants and defendants, including representing clients' interests at inquests. She is now part of the firm's Technical Claims Team specialising in defendant employers’ and public liability claims for local and public authorities, health trusts and corporate bodies but also deals with some high value clinical negligence claims. She generally handles more complex, higher value and fatal accident/injury claims and, in particular, she deals with cumulative injury and disease claims including asbestos related injury. For many years Suzanne predominantly handled claims for local authorities. These included, amongst others, claims against police and fire services. Suzanne continues to represent local authorities, in particular in disease claims. She also represents other local health and corporate entities.
Tim is a partner specialising in insurance policy drafting and distribution, and associated commercial and compliance issue. Tim heads up Browne Jacobson’s insurance wordings team, which advises insurers, MGAs and brokers on their policy wordings. Tim and his team have a particular focus on the readability of policy wordings, and are regularly instructed to redraft policies in plain English, using techniques developed in conjunction with leading linguists from the University of Nottingham. Tim and his team often advise in relation to major projects such as the creation of suites of policy wordings and associated documents both for new market entrants and for existing markets when launching new product lines. Tim also advises clients on commercial, regulatory and compliance issues relating to the distribution of regulated insurance products and services, including compliance with ICOBs, IDD and CASS. His clients include Lloyd’s syndicates, retail insurers, overseas insurers, MGAs, brokers and broker networks. Tim regularly advises brokers and other insurance intermediaries on all aspects of general regulatory compliance, including regularly advising on compliance issues in the context of disposals and acquisitions of regulated entities.
Vicky plays a key role in leading corporate transactions in the independent health and care sector. Vicky has worked with a number of private sector health and care clients on all areas of corporate work including share, business and SPV property acquisitions and disposals, group reorganisations and general company law matters including shareholder agreements, constitutional and corporate governance issues. Vicky’s clients include integrated retirements communities, care home developers and operators, private hospitals, health tech and medical device companies, domiciliary care providers, fertility clinics, children’s services and specialist care providers. Vicky works with companies at all stages of their journey, from start-ups and buy and build platforms to large care groups and internationally listed companies. Out of work, Vicky is busy looking after her toddler, she plays the violin and sings in a band, and has recently represented England winning a gold medal in the Touch Rugby European Championships.
Victoria specialises in defendant public liability work including employers’, occupiers’ and highways liability cases from initial instruction to trial. Including fast and multi track work. Her work primarily involves advising local authority and other public sector clients on public and employers' liability fast-track and multi-track claims. Victoria works at both the pre- and post- litigation stage and also handles investigatory work.
Victoria is a Partner with management responsibilities across the large loss and Technical Claims Teams. She specialises in Defendant insurance litigation with particular expertise in the areas of sport and catastrophic injury claims, workplace violence and high value and technical product liability claims. Victoria also manages sub-teams specialising in pursuing recovery actions and housing litigation. Victoria is adept at understanding her client’s concerns be they financial, reputational or commercial and clients value Victoria’s insight, commercial awareness and understanding of their needs and preferred methods of achieving their desired outcomes. Her dedication to delivering results for her clients saw her awarded Leicestershire Law Society Solicitor of the Year in 2011 and a shortlisting in the Law Society Excellence Awards 2011. Victoria is often asked to provide training to clients on risk prevention and strategic claims handling and is a member of the FOIL Product Liability SFT. Victoria recently appeared on the insurance expert panel at the Law in Sport Annual Conference, providing insights on vicarious liability in a sporting context.
Wenna is a member of STEP with over 30 years’ experience as a private client lawyer. She specialises in all aspects of private client work, forging long-standing relationships with her clients and their families, in some cases spanning several generations. She has extensive experience of advising clients on all aspects of succession planning, in particular on the use of trusts in the context of the devolution of family wealth and the preservation of family owned estates and businesses. She advises the trustees of significant family trusts, often acting as a trustee through her directorship of the firm’s trust company. She has extensive experience advising on Wills, powers of attorney and also acts as the executor of many estates and advises on post-death tax planning.
William has over 30 years’ experience as a trust, tax and charities lawyer, specialising in high value trust and estate planning work. Acting particularly for business owners, trust companies and landowners, his early experience in industry and his time as a corporate lawyer gave him an understanding of the commercial imperatives of his clients, and this need to provide a commercial service to its clients characterises the team’s work. Much of his work involves ownership planning in relation to companies and estates, for both tax and succession purposes. His clients include some of the country’s wealthiest families, accountancy firms, corporate trustees and charities. His commercial experience and approach to trust and tax issues results in a steady stream of new high value instructions. He also advises boards of charity trustees.
William is a Partner who specialises in clinical negligence defence work, acting on behalf of NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, and other private insurers and commercial organisations. He runs a mixed high value, complex case portfolio dealing with complex spinal injury, brain injury, birth injury, wrongful birth, and amputation claims. In addition to running his case load William is also a Team Leader for the NHS Resolution team and a specialist in complex quantum. He regularly delivers training on the topic and others both internally, training junior fee earners, and externally to clients. William also contributes to national risk management initiatives for the NHS. One such example is the ‘Getting it right First Time’ (GIRFT) initiative, for which he provides claims and risk management data analysis and advice on draft guidelines.