Catherine Mangham

Commercial litigation.

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.

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School; University of Warwick (2000 LLB (Hons) Law 2.1; 2001 Legal Practice Course, Distinction).