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Partner; specialises in claims involving injuries of the utmost severity including serious orthopaedic injuries, brain injury and spinal cord injury, arising out of road traffic accidents. She is a nominated individual for one of the firm's top 10 clients.
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Partner in Catastrophic Injury Team dealing predominantly with cases involving head and spinal injuries, multiple orthopaedic injuries, chronic pain and amputations. I am experienced in dealing with complex liability and causation issues in a wide range of claims including road traffic accidents, employers liability and public liability claims. I also have extensive experience of road traffic claims brought under the Uninsured Drivers' Agreement.
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Partner and Head of the Volume Recovery Practice Group. Andrew heads up the Volume Motor and Property Recovery departments, acting for a wide range of insurers and corporate fleets in relation to the recovery of insured and uninsured losses arising out of motor, household and commercial property disputes. Andrew also leads the claimant personal injury team and has extensive experience in handling large loss and catastrophic injury claims arising from motor, employers’ and public liability accidents received on both a first and third party capture basis. Volume Recovery is based in Manchester and has over 45 lawyers.
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Andrew is a partner in the catastrophic injury team specialising in catastrophic and large loss claims. Within BLM he leads the Brain Injury Subject Matter Group together with a number of our specialists which focuses on trends, developments and best practice in handling these claims He is a named individual for a number of insurers on their select panels to handle their highest value cases and currently manages a portfolio of claims with a combined value in excess of £150million. Andrew has many years experience acting exclusively for insurers, corporate policy holders and local authorities handling claims of the utmost severity and complexity. His caseload comprises public liability, employers’ liability and motor claims, especially brain injuries, severe spinal injuries and amputations with expertise in handling infant brain injury claims. He also has experience with insolvency (corporate and recovery) and professional negligence as well as disease claims. Andrew has written a number of articles commenting on legal issues and developments and regularly provides seminars and training for insurers, policyholders and clients. Aside from supervising and mentoring team members he manages a team of junior lawyers who assist on cases.
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Angela is a partner in the volume motor team. She oversees the management of a dedicated dual site team based in Glasgow and Manchester representing Aviva Insurance and GCSR clients aligned with other areas of practice including property and casualty. She has experience of representing large insurer clients, self-insured companies and individuals. Her team deals with all aspects of litigation in motor claims up to £125,000.Aside from management of a large team, she also has conduct of multi-track claims involving complex injuries, indemnity and liability. With a keen eye for detail, she undertakes thorough investigations on behalf of her clients and carries out her team’s advocacy for interim applications.Angela provides strategy advice to clients to mitigate avoidable litigation and minimise indemnity spend. She identifies and advises on market trends and know your opponent strategy and works collaboratively with various clients to implement processes and tactics.She assists in developing proactive strategies across the legal supply chain to accommodate change in light of evolving opponent strategies.
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Barry has had extensive experience in defending all aspects of motor and employers’ liability claims and is the fraud co-ordinator for the firm’s Liverpool office. Barry specialises in defending catastrophic injury and large loss claims for insurers, transport operators and retailers.
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Catherine leads the Property Damage Team in Manchester as technical manager. She specialises in property damage recovery and liability claims and insurance litigation. She is the go to contact for subsidence damage claims having developed a niche practice in particular handling subsidence damage claims for major Local Authority clients, contractor’s liability and construction and engineering matters. She handles major loss property damage work involving fire and flood and policy coverage and manages property damage recovery schemes for major insurers, leading a team to achieve cost-effective recoveries relating to both injury and property damage settlement. Her successes include at the Technology and Construction Court and Court of Appeal in the case of Epsom College Ltd v Pierse Contracting Southern Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1449 when she acted for a major insurer, recovering rectification costs from a defendant construction company for causing a nail to penetrate a pipe during the course of building works undertaken 3 years prior to the damage occurring. She also handled the high profile TPO case securing felling of the 100 year beech tree in Irton. Catherine has presented at the Post Magazine Annual Property Conference on Subsidence Strategy and provides conducts regular claims clinics to insurers providing expertise and training on property damage claims. She has been praised by insurers who ‘admire her work’ and for her ‘hard work’ ‘excellent and very useful training pitched at just the right level’. Clients include: Allianz Insurance, Crawley Borough Council, Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, Sainsbury’s, Travelers Insurance, Zurich Insurance.
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Cathie is a partner and has experience of all forms of personal injury RTA, EL and PL claims up to multi-track level as a handler. She manages the motor volume litigation team in Manchester which handles defendant litigated matters on behalf of more than 15 insurers and major insureds. The team has extensive experience of dealing with all elements of motor claims from the Ministry of Justice through to multi-track and including complex indemnity issues and credit hire claims up to the value of £100,000.
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Chris is a partner and head of the Occupational Disease group. He advises in relation to the full range of disease litigation, both long and short tail, with emphasis on asbestos-related disease, occupational cancers and work-related stress and related policy wording issues. He advises insurers in relation to strategic disease litigation issues, emerging risk issues and response to government consultations on changes in the law. He also advises corporate clients in relation to corporate structure implications relating to acquired legacy disease liability difficulties and has advised corporate clients with respect to pan-jurisdiction implications of group cancer litigation strategy in other European jurisdictions. He is also a Director of Global Insurance Law Connect, the international insurance law firm network co-founded by BLM.
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Partner - Defendant Healthcare - specialising in the defence of medical and dental claims, clinical claims in the care setting and prison healthcare. Also instructed in respect of alleged breaches of the Human Rights Act in a healthcare context.
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Claire is a partner in the casualty team and deals with a mixture of employers' liability and public liability claims. She also handles claims with issues under the New Roads and Street Works Act and has experience with product liability claims under the Consumer Protection Act and Sales of Goods Act, acting for both manufacturers and suppliers.
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Claire is a partner in the Occupational Disease team and have over 25 years of personal injury litigation experience.She specialises predominately in short-tail occupational disease namely cumulative back injuries, work-related upper limb disorders, occupational asthma, dermatitis, and stress/bullying in the workplace. She also specialises in claims concerning food poisoning, food allergies, housing disrepair, carbon monoxide poisoning and EL/PL transmission of infectious diseases.Claire is the lead of BLM's COSHH Subject Matter Group, one of a number of SMGs which ensure the development and sharing of in-depth and market-leading subject matter expertise.She has been involved in large number of in-house and external client training sessions and contributes to BLM publications upon short-tail disease topics and tactics including QOCS and fundamental dishonesty/fraud issues.She works directly with a number of policyholders including food manufacturers/retailers on claim prevention, improving internal procedures and floodgate management most recently in relation COVID-19 claims and the impact of this upon other short-tail disease risks/claims.
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Daniel is a partner and Head of the National Business Advisory Team.He specialises in all aspects of corporate and commercial work, particularly mergers & acquisitions (national and international), venture capital transactions, corporate reorganisations, share schemes and commercial contracts. He principally advises businesses, entrepreneurs, owner managers and investors in growth businesses in various sectors, particularly in the property development, digital, technology and e-commerce sectors. In addition, Daniel has significant experience in advising public sector bodies with regard to regeneration and infrastructure projects.
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I am a partner and head of BLM's laims solutions business stream with responsibility for the quality of products, service delivery and performance of the claims solution business stream at BLM, which includes the work of almost 300 lawyers engaged in the delivery of solutions for our clients across casualty, motor, fraud, claims management services, costs and volume recovery. My litigation practice is focused upon the defence of serious and catastrophic injury claims, assisting our clients to repudiate the claims or minimise their indemnity spend where a settlement is required. I acted on behalf of the successful defendant in the Court of Appeal in Macsalvors v Brush Transformers, a precedent setting decision upon the scope of the Construction Plant Association (CPA) conditions of hire. I also chair the Innovations Group at BLM focused upon Analytics and Automation products for the benefit of our clients.
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Partner dealing with catastrophic and fatal injury litigation arising from EL, PL, RTA and sports. Panel solicitor for liability claims involving the UK governing bodies of 2 and 4 wheeled motorsport, and other national sporting and recreational associations. Heads the Sports Practice Group and responsible for coordinating BLM’s Sports Law offering. Regular speaker at customer and client events on claims handling, liability and civil procedure.
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Donna is a partner and lead lawyer in BLM’s Catastrophic Injury and Large Loss team advising and representing individuals, SME's and corporate clients through insurer instructions. She is also the primary nominated catastrophic injury lawyer in Manchester for a specific insurer.She specialises in defending complex claims arising from EL, PL and motor accidents and has experience across a broad range of sectors. Her caseload includes serious and life changing orthopaedic and amputation injuries, chronic pain, brain injuries, spinal injuries, claims for psychiatric injury and fatal accidents. In view of the type of work she undertakes, she also regularly handles cases where the HSE and other regulatory bodies are involved.Donna is also experienced in handling fraudulent claims and has secured findings of fundamental dishonesty at trial.Donna leads BLM’s Policy Indemnity Unit and so regularly advises on policy cover and indemnity.
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Partner and lead lawyer in BLM's Manchester catastrophic injury team handling complex and high value claims for large insurers and corporates. Liz specialises in large loss and catastrophic claims with a particular interest in amputation claims but a caseload including brain injury, severe multiple injury and spinal matters. Liz is recognised for adopting a collaborative, pragmatic and credible approach to claims solutions.
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Whilst Hayley has a particular focus on real estate financing, she also regularly leads corporate and leveraged finance transactions as well as asset-based financing deals.She has considerable knowledge of offshore financing structures and funds transactions in the real estate finance arena. Hayley also has experience of acting on stressed and distressed loans and restructuring situations, acting for lenders, investors and borrowers.
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Helen is a partner and specialises in commercial property matters including acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant work, corporate support and property finance. She acts for individuals, investors, developers and various local authorities and public sector bodies.She has particular experience in dealing with landlord and tenant work and tenant portfolio management, including leases, licences, assignments, sub-letting and surrenders; she acts for both landlords and tenants.Helen also deals with school academy conversions and liaises with various schools, academy trusts, local authorities and the Department for Education.
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John specialises specialises in defending complex and high value liability claims brought against a variety of organisations. He also handles multi party claims arising from food poisoning outbreaks in the catering and leisure industries, and also represents client’s interests at Inquests in the Coroner’s court. His experience also covers all aspects of casualty fraud. He has represented clients on a number of occasions in the Court of Appeal and also acts for clients in cross-border matters involving parties outside the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
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Judith is a partner in BLM’s casualty team. She handles a variety of employers’ liability and public liability claims including specialist and complex claims for public sector and commercial clients. Her expertise includes handling highways claims, workplace stress, bullying and harassment claims, asbestos-related claims and occupational cancer claims, asthma, work related upper limb disorders. She has experience in representing local authority clients at Inquests.She also provides training to clients.
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Julie is an experienced construction and engineering lawyer with a practice that combines contentious and non-contentious work for a range of public- and private-sector clients. She has particular expertise in advising on procurement strategies and contract preparation, negotiation and administration. Julie works with clients on a number of different contract structures including traditional, design and build, EPC contracts, construction management, consultants' appointments, guarantees and bonds. In addition, she has been involved in a number of infrastructure, schools, energy from waste, and rail projects and commercial schemes including office developments, hotels, retail, distribution centres and urban regeneration.
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Katherine advises in relation to a wide range of both short and long-tail disease claims, including asbestos, occupational cancers, asthma and dermatitis and has experience of handling claims involving allegations of stress, bullying and harassment. She has dealt with high value cases involving multiple claimants, including legionella, carbon monoxide poisoning, housing disrepair and water contamination in both an employers and public liability setting. She also advises private, public and third sector, including local, national and international companies, social housing providers, hospitals and the National Trust.
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Katie is a partner and has over 25 years' experience of acting for healthcare professionals in regulatory and disciplinary hearings, police interviews, criminal trials, and inquests, including several cases which have had national media coverage. She is often asked by defence organisations to assist in their more complex and difficult cases.
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Kendra is a partner and specialises in all aspects of family law including: child arrangements, complex contested children matters, prohibited steps orders and specific issue orders, divorce and dissolution of civil partnership, matrimonial finance matters, domestic abuse, injunctions, non molestation orders and occupation orders, grandparent contacts with children, financial applications brought on behalf of children where the parents are unmarried, international children matters, international and internal relocation of children, special guardianship, unmarried cohabitation disputes, adoption and public law care proceedings.She is routinely instructed in relation to financial proceedings arising out of divorce, often acting on behalf of high net worth individuals. She is particularly adept at dealing with matters where there are substantial pension and business assets.Kendra has extensive experience in dealing with complex children law matters both for private individuals such as parents and grandparents and has acted for the local authority. She also represents parties in both children and divorce cases when there are elements of domestic abuse and substance abuse present, including involvement from the local authority.Past cases have involved issues arising in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.She frequently deals with cases involving serious allegations of emotional, physical, psychological and/or sexual abuse, cultural and religious issues, and mental health issues, together with intractable contact disputes. She has undertaken many cases regarding the lawful and unlawful removal of children both within the jurisdiction and internationally.
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Laura is a partner with over 16 years experience in pre-litigated and litigated industrial disease work. she acts for a variety of insurer and corporate clients and has a particular specialism in noise-induced hearing loss, vibration white finger and upper limb disorders.
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Liam is a partner and has worked as a property damage and policy coverage lawyer on behalf of major insurers since 2009, dealing with claims across the full range of insured perils including fire, flood and escape of water. He has a breadth of knowledge and experience across complex and high value policy coverage, liability and recovery matters. This experience includes public and product liability claims as well as advising insurers on policy indemnity issues and contractual disputes. Over the years, he has also gained particular expertise in insurance fraud as well as advising insurers on Financial Ombudsman Service referrals. Liam adopts a holistic approach to all claims to ensure that clients benefit from a commercial and pragmatic approach tailored to the specific facts of each individual case and their own requirements.
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Louise is a partner in the occupational disease team.She advises both insurer and corporate clients in relation to a wide range of disease litigation, both long and short tail. Her work has an emphasis on claims for bullying and harassment, alleged overwork, PTSD (in particular following assaults in the workplace or other incidents at work) and stress arising from disciplinary/grievance procedures.She works closely with BLM’s prison team in relation to civil claims for psychiatric injury. In addition, Louise works on a variety of occupational cancer claims (for example cancers of the bladder, kidney and blood) and also asbestos-related claims.
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Partner, specialises in a variety of work, most particularly inquests, judicial review and administrative law, claims for breach of human rights and employers’ and public liability claims. Acts for critical services suppliers, statutory bodies and retailers. Interested in restraint asphyxia, occupational disease and false imprisonment.
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Marie is a partner in the catastrophic injury team and specialises in conducting the defence of high value motor and casualty claims with a varied caseload of public liability, employers’ liability and motor cases, representing several leading insurance companies. Her caseload contains both litigated and non-litigated matters arising from fatal accidents and those involving multiple defendants and brain injured claimants. It also encompasses cases involving provisional damages, PPOs, issues of mental capacity and deputyship costs. She also advises in cases involving policy issues, particularly the cross-over between employers’ liability and public liability policies and cases involving dual insurance issues. Marie is a member of BLM’s Court of Protection Subject Matter Group. Marie is also assistant head of BLM’s Policy Indemnity Unit and a member of the specialist sub-group covering claims where there are multiple policies in place.
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Mark Chetwood is a partner and specialises in large loss, complex and sensitive claims. Mark has a particular expertise in handling military claims, including accidents involving aircraft and vehicles, gunshot wounding, explosions, parachuting accidents and various training-related accidents. Mark also has extensive experience in retail claims and advises on risk management systems and effective measures top reduce exposure claims. He is a member of the BLM transport, environment and regulatory group.
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Mark is a partner and Head of the public sector team in Liverpool. He is responsible for supervising a team of litigators and claims handlers dealing with EL, PL and product liability claims.His experience has involved working with public sector clients and the military on a wide variety of different claims and his specialism is in handling large loss, and complex EL & PL claims.He has many years' experience of working for large national retail and supermarket companies on a wide variety of different claims including slips and trips, manual handling, defective equipment, product liability, chronic pain, assault, harassment and fatalities.He also advises on risk management systems and effective measures to reduce exposure to claims.
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Partner dealing primarily with serious and complex claims involving significant and multiple orthopaedic injuries, spinal injuries, head/brain injuries, chronic pain cases and fatal claims.
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I qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and was made partner in 2014. My main focus is handling occupational disease claims with a particular focus on NIHL, HAVS and asbestos-related diseases. I act for a variety of insurers and corporate clients. I regularly write articles and deliver training to clients and others in relation to occupational disease claims.
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Michelle is a partner who has been part of BLM’s specialist Prison Team for the last 15 years. She acts on behalf of the secure estate including private prison sector and specialises in representing clients at Inquests following a death in prison or police custody (Article 2 ECHR). Michelle’s expertise also includes defending civil claims, her work is varied and comprises of claims for assault, false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office, breach of human rights, and negligence. She is also instructed on group actions, judicial reviews and civil claims pursued arising out of a death in custody.
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Natalie is a partner in BLM's regulatory team and represents a broad range of clients from the corporate and public sectors. She also represents both individuals and organisations on effective response to police and regulatory authorities' investigations and prosecutions. She advises on many fatal and serious accidents and provides support in the immediate aftermath, advising on the regulators' powers and investigation, commencing an investigation and advising on all stages thereafter to include options in respect of interviews under caution. Natalie advises on plea and prepares cases for court, both plea and mitigation hearings and trials. She represents clients’ interests at many inquests, including complex Article 2 inquests and also in public inquiries.Natalie has been instructed in several high profile cases including the HSE investigation of Merlin Entertainments following the incident on the Smiler roller coaster in June 2015 and she is currently involved in the Manchester Arena Inquiry. She is part of the BLM 24/7 Crisis Connection Emergency Helpline ensuring that clients have access to specialist legal advice as soon as an incident occurs. She also delivers training to clients on emergency response, inquests and what to expect during a regulatory investigation.
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Nicholas is a partner in the Catastrophic Injury Team and exclusively handles claims of the utmost severity on behalf of insurers, local authorities and large corporate policyholders. He regularly handles cases involving complex liability disputes of particular importance and sensitivity to both his lay and insurer client. He has a particular specialism in highways and occupiers’ liability claims, having acted for the defendants in Yates v National Trust [2014] EWHC 222 (QB); MacDonald v Myerscough College [LTL] 13/04/2016; Robinson v North Yorkshire Council (1) and Richmondshire District Council (2) [LTL 16/05/2017]; Quick v Nottinghamshire County Council [2021] 3 WLUK 786 25 March 2021; and Parker v National Trust [2021] EWHC 1589 (QB).
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Nick is a partner within the regulatory team specialising in criminal investigations, PACE interviews, manslaughter prosecutions, health & safety investigations (Health & Safety Act 1974 prosecutions), road traffic offences and inquests. He advises a number of high profile corporate clients in addition to individuals and local authorities through growing direct nominations and insurer instructions. Nick maintains a rapid response service for clients faced with police intervention, onsite health and safety emergencies and coronial investigations. He recommends early engagement with clients’ following incidents, providing sound tactical advice at the outset in order to secure and protect his client’s position. Leading his own investigations to support clients and developing clear strategies; allied to established connections with counsel and experts, assembling the strongest defence teams to challenge the prosecuting agencies. His guidance is evident particularly in cases of the utmost significance and complexity, throughout each stage of the criminal/ regulatory/ coronial processes. Nick’s caseload and client base is diverse, including representing a HGV driver acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving; securing a company director a non-custodial sentence having pleaded guilty to a health and safety offence following his employee’s fatal fall from height; representing a national supermarket following a police investigation into the death of an individual detained for shoplifting at one of their stores; to advising a local authority in respect of a fatality at one of their care homes at inquest and securing no further action was taken by the CQC. He is part of the BLM 24/7 Crisis Connection Emergency Helpline, ensuring clients have immediate access to bespoke legal advice immediately an incident has occurred. He delivers tailored training across health and safety matters to corporate and local authority clients in addition to contributing articles to industry periodicals and occasional podcasts.
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Nikolas qualified as a solicitor in 1997. For the first ten years of practice, he was a claimant solicitor. Initially he predominantly worked on RTA claims before moving to deal with employers’ and public liability claims. In 2007 he joined BLM’s casualty department in Liverpool. Since this time, Nikolas has dealt with mainly large loss. He also handles matters that have novel issues and case with potentially difficult PR issues. More recently he has been dealing with claims with a catastrophic element to them, for example, brain injury, amputations, serious spinal injuries and serious psychological injuries. He has a specific interest in cases involving chronic pain and complex regional pain syndrome. Nikolas has been heavily involved in BLM’s response to the MoJ reforms and the implementation of the Jackson Reforms. He has provided firm wide training in relation to claims handling on the new EL/PL portal.
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Rachael is a partner in the BLM Liverpool who works within an insurance litigation team acting for a major retailer and a London bus company dealing with large value claims often involving chronic pain issues. She works closely with a team of pre litigation casualty handlers dealing with high volume claims and also assists in the management of a larger casualty, litigation team.Rachael also has experience of attending inquests and police interviews and handling health and safety prosecutions.
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Ruth is a partner and head of BLM's transport unit. She handles motor, EL and PL catastrophic injury claims associated in particular with transport (bus and coach), also multi-party road traffic accidents in foreign jurisdictions She is Client Relationship Partner for one of BLM's top 10 clients. She is lead editor on Bingham and Berrymans' Personal Injury Motor Claims Cases.Ruth was a nominee Insurance Lawyer of the year 2020. Recent notable cases Court of Appeal Farley v Buckley and Evitt v Burton
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Sally is a partner and specialises in catastrophic injury and large loss claims and advise on a wide range of claims including road traffic accidents, employers' liability, public liability and occupiers' liability.Her experience includes defending claims involving complex liability and quantum issues involving brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputee claims, fatal accidents and serious orthopaedic injuries.She also advises on policy coverage and indemnity issues.
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Sarah is a partner and Head of BLM’s national healthcare team . Her specialist area is primarily high value clinical negligence claims brought against doctors and dentists, and public and independent inquiries. She has many years' experience in handling clinical negligence claims and has handled a wide variety of cases over her career, including cases involving brain and spinal injury, obstetric, paediatric and cancer cases. Prior to qualifying into the legal profession Sarah was a staff nurse at York District Hospital. This invaluable experience has assisted her throughout her practice and brings a pragmatic and insightful approach to her work.
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Partner and joint head of BLM's occupational disease team based at its Manchester office. Specialising in claims arising from workplace exposure to dust, particularly asbestos-related claims, and managing a 20+ strong team of lawyers handling the full range of short and long tail disease claims on behalf of general insurers, individuals, corporates and legacy claims managers. Also involved in advising clients on issues arising in respect of occupational illness, regularly speaking at internal and external conferences and client training events and frequently contributing to BLM and external publications.
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Simon Jones specialises in high value/large loss employers and public liability claims. In addition he has considerable experience of handling chronic pain cases. He is a member of a number of special interest groups, including transport and retail. In addition Simon is a member of a number of external organisations, including the Manchester Law Society and Manchester and District Medico-Legal Society. Simon manages a team of 30 lawyers in the firm’s Manchester office, and is Head of the Casualty Practice Group at BLM which includes over 200 lawyers. Simon has handled two cases which are Court of Appeal authorities. Booth v Britannia Hotels, Court of Appeal 2002, underlined the concept that exaggeration can, in certain circumstances, be implied by reference to a settlement figure as compared to the stated value of a case. The claimant was awarded a fraction of her costs after settling for a vastly reduced sum because of recently disclosed surveillance evidence. The Appeal Court held that the judge conducting the assessment of costs should have considered the matter in the round to determine whether the costs were reasonable having regard to the amount for which the claim properly should have been made. The case of Guntripp v Cheneys Coaches involved restriction of expert evidence in circumstances where there was clear a example expert shopping, in close proximity to trial.
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Stephen is a partner head of the commercial real estate team at BLM. He carries out a wide range of property work, and has a particular interest in advising developers on the acquisition, funding, development, sale and letting of residential, commercial and mixed use developments. He also has substantial experience in advising on the sale of contaminated land for redevelopment and property transactions for charities.During his career he has advised private, public and third sector clients, including local, national and international companies, independent and state schools and social housing providers.
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Specialises in utmost severity injury claims, including amputation, brain and spinal injuries, arising out of road traffic, EL and PL accidents. Main clients are Motor Insurers Bureau and Ecclesiastical Insurance.
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Stuart is a partner and heads the motor, large loss and catastrophic injuries teams in Liverpool. He specialises in catastrophic injury cases arising from employers’ liability, public liability and motor claims involving complex liability issues, head injuries, amputation, serious orthopaedic injuries and other claims with a high level of damages and is one of a small number of lawyers appointd to handle claims of the highest value and complexity by a number of large insurer clients. He is currently dealing with a number of traumatic brain injury and serious spinal injury claims valued in excess of £10m.Stuart also leads BLM's Care, Statutory Funding and Rehabilitation Subject Matter Group, together with a number of our specialists which focuses on trends and developments in this area.Stuart takes a commercial and pragmatic approach when handling such claims, working closely with both the client and claimant’s solicitors. He regularly writes articles and provides seminars and training on various topics within his areas of expertise.He also contributed to and co-edited the 15th edition of Bingham and Berrymans’ Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases.
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Partner; specialises in occupational disease work covering all fields; also undertakes EL/PL work; receives instructions from both insurers and major insured clients.
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Tessa is a partner and specialises in real estate and development. She has worked with national and entrepreneurial developers, local authorities, government agencies and investors to facilitate the delivery of new commercial accommodation and dwellings, particularly on brownfield sites. Tessa worked for a number of years in-house at a unitary authority with responsibility for legal aspects of regeneration and infrastructure projects. She understands the constraints and challenges which public bodies have to deal with and is confident in devising structures which allow public-private enterprise. She can provide a comprehensive legal service for developers and investors throughout the life of projects, dealing with site assembly, site set up, forward funding, lettings, profit sharing arrangements and sales.
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Partner specializing in complex and high-value claims arising primarily out of road traffic accident, with particular experience of dealing with cases resulting in chronic pain. Reported cases include Drinkall v Whitwood and Hiscocks v Dietrich.
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Trish is a partner who now works with BLM’s Compliance Officer for legal practice, including investigation of breaches and preparation of reports. Having previously specialised in road traffic accident work, case management development and provision of management information to major insurer clients Trish had a keen interest in compliance and the SRA’s new approach under OFR so transferred teams in 2014 Trish supports and advises the business on legal regulatory risk and compliance issues and obligations relating to the Solicitors Code of Conduct. Working as part of BLM’s risk and compliance team she helps co-ordinate the firm’s compliance agenda and central risk reporting framework for claims, complaints incidents and breaches. She liaises with BLM’s Learning and Development and Knowledge Management teams to ensure delivery of a compliance training programme for the business and that the team’s technical guidance output is easily accessible and shared successfully across the firm.
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Partner; specialises in policy coverage and liability aspects of RTA, public and employers’ liability. Val is nominated nationwide to handle catastrophic injury claims for major insurers. She is the CRP partner for one of the firm’s top 4 clients.
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Vivienne has been a solicitor for over 30 years. She trained at BLM and is now the firm’s Managing Partner having held a number of senior management positions within the firm.As Managing Partner, in addition to being responsible for putting into action the strategy set by the Executive Board and ensuring the smooth running of the firm’s service to clients, internal operations and financial wellbeing, she is focused on developing solutions for clients beyond legal advice.Vivienne introduced a data analytics team to BLM and played a lead role in launching the firm’s BLM Innovations suite of tools.The well-being of all colleagues at BLM is an important part of her role. She founded the firm’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee and BLM’s employee forum, The Voice of BLM.