Sharon MacArthur-Powell

Personal injury.

Sharon specialises in the investigation and defence of high value EL and PL personal injury matters and has developed particular expertise in occupier's liability and rail industry claims. She leads an EL and PL team responding to a wide range of claims from slips and trips to catastrophic injury, as well as advising on policy and indemnity issues and recoveries from third parties.She is often instructed at an early stage to undertake the initial liability investigation and has had a number of successful liability trials. Her successes include achieving a strike out on a £1 million case following the robust defence of a relief from sanctions application; a discontinuance on a £3.6 million case in which the claimant sustained a spinal  injury falling down an escalator and a withdrawal of a £5 million claim for a claimant who slipped in a public area. She has a particular interest in chronic pain cases, which require a forensic review of the evidence and is an excellent tactition, negotiating some noteworthy and excellent result for insurers. Reported cases include the successful defence of an  £1 million RTA case in the Court of Appeal involving a pedestrian, Sam v Atkins [2005] EWCA Civ 1452 which has proved an excellent precedent for motor insurers.

Northfields Upper School, Dunstable; University of Central England (1992 Law LLB (Hons)); Staffordshire University (1994 Legal Practice Course Commendation).