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Ashtons Legal Offices
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THE LONG BARN
Fornham Business Court, Fornham St Martin
BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK
IP31 1SL
England
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Tom Ranson
Work Department
Personal Injury: Claimant
Position
Partner
Career
Tom is a member of the Personal Injury team and APIL Senior Litigator with over 30 years’ experience.
Tom is privileged to act for injury victims across the length and breadth of the country and passionate about the work he does for them.
Tom advises on all aspects of injury litigation but has a particular professional interest in complex polytrauma and causation cases arising from employers’ liability, public / occupiers’ liability and road traffic accidents. Tom also specialises in cases involving chronic pain, psychiatric trauma and traumatic brain injury (especially at the subtle end of the spectrum).
Tom is committed to ensuring his clients get the best treatment, support and service right from the start and takes great pride in ensuring they get the best possible results within the legal framework. He is often asked to provide “second opinions” for clients (of other Firms) on matters falling within his sphere of expertise (and is happy to do so.)
Tom has extensive litigation / trial experience in the High and County Courts and has had a number of cases reported. In addition, he has secured many millions of pounds’ worth of compensation for clients through negotiation and whilst recognising that money cannot change the past, it can make a difference to the future.
The Legal 500 says of Tom that he is “like a Grandmaster of the chess world – a great listener and brilliant tactician with a very good sense of honesty and integrity and his level of expertise is second to none” and “highly skilled and professional, highly knowledgeable, very empathetic to clients.”
Tom is a longstanding member of various professional organisations, including: APIL, MASS and CILEx.
Outside of work, his family keep him very busy!
Languages
English
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Rising stars)Ashtons Legal has one of the largest injury services practices in East Anglia and clients remark on ‘a stellar group, committed, clever, dedicated and tenacious in their pursuit of the best realistic outcome for their clients’. The firm has an outstanding reputation in both clinical negligence and personal injury, thanks to the vast experience of its specialist teams. Richard Foyster in Ipswich leads on personal injury matters, while in Bury St Edmunds, Sharon Allison leads the medical negligence practice and Michael Wangermann, who ‘fights tooth and nail for the right result‘, is head of injury services. Also in Bury St Edmunds, Sandra Patton is a long-standing expert in clinical negligence, and senior associate Tom Ranson has ‘a clear and strategic mind‘. Senior associate Mick Upton is highly regarded for fatal accidents, brain injuries, spinal injuries and serious orthopaedic injuries, while the ‘clever, quick and diligent‘ Ben Ward in Norwich leads on catastrophic injury claims.
Lawyer Rankings
- Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant East Anglia > Insurance
- Rising stars East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Transport and shipping
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia