Edward Broome

Personal injury: industrial disease litigation – asbestos-related injuries, dermatitis, work-related asthma, WRULD, HAVS, COSHH claims and deafness; maximum severity claims – fatal accidents and other catastrophic injuries claims; industrial disease litigation: asbestos-related injuries, dermatitis, work-related asthma, WRULD, HAVS, COSHH claims and deafness; fraud and LVI claims. He has undertaken fraud (RTA and highway claims) as well as LVI trial work for leading Defendant firms. He is familiar with all aspects of fraudulent work, including postcode claims and the general interlinking of claims and checks undertaken by fraud departments in both insurers and solicitors alike. He provides written advice and drafts pleadings relevant to all aspects of this type of work; he represents both Claimant and Defendant in all aspects of employers’ liability and public liability claims against local authorities, NHS Trusts, statutory undertakers and others including all forms of workplace claims as well as highway, housing disrepair and occupiers’ liability claims; psychiatric injury claims including chronic pain conditions and fibromyalgia; he acts in all aspects of claims arising out of damage to apparatus including cables and pipes; road traffic accidents, including claims against the MIB; CRU appeals and claims under the Criminal Injuries Compensation schemes. Clinical negligence: undertakes all aspects of clinical negligence work – sport: he has been involved in all aspects of regulatory work. He has represented and advised both individual sportsmen and women as well as regulatory bodies. He has appeared before various sporting governing bodies, including the British Boxing Board of Control, UKA and the British Weight Lifting Association (BWLA); he sits as Chairman on British Weight Lifting Association Doping Disciplinary Tribunals, sitting in judgment on individual cases of contested positive doping offences. Recent judgments in testosterone cases available on UK Sport website, at http://www.uksport.gov.uk/index.php?content=drugs&p=2. He has advised on issues of eligibility criteria for athletes and has also acted in a number of personal injury claims for footballers following negligent tackles on the field of play. General commercial and contract: undertakes work with a particular emphasis on sale and supply of goods and services and consumer credit cases; particular experience in claims arising out of the sale and financing of the sale of motor cars. Costs: represents both Claimant and Defendant at detailed costs hearings.

Arnold School, Blackpool; Oriel College, Oxford (1995 BA Hons Jurisprudence); Inns of Court School of Law (1997); Manchester Metropolitan University (1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Sport and the Law).