Lucienne Westbrook > DMH Stallard LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
DMH Stallard LLP Offices
1ST FLOOR, WONERSH HOUSE
THE GUILDWAY, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU3 1LR
England
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Lucienne Westbrook
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Lucienne is a Partner
Career
Lucienne has wide experience of all types of personal injury claims including clinical and dental negligence cases.
Lucienne’s particular expertise lies in accidents at work, accidents at sea, in the air and on the road, high value cases involving brain injury, spinal injuries, multiple injuries and Claimant medical negligence matters. She also has experience of dealing with inquests and was involved in a lead case in the Hepatitis C blood transfusion litigation.
Lucienne has particular experience of high value cases involving brain injury, spinal injuries and multiple injuries and has settled several cases for amounts in excess of £1 million. She also has experience of industrial disease claims, mesothelioma and asbestosis. She is a specialist in sports related personal injury claims and successfully represented the Claimant in the high-profile 2007 Court of Appeal Case Mountford v Newlands School [2007] EWCA Civ 21. In addition, she deals with and advises on defendant personal injury claims for existing clients.
Languages
English, German
Memberships
- APIL
- APIL spinal and brain injury special interest groups
Education
Lucienne qualified as a solicitor in 1987.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
DMH Stallard LLP is noted for providing ‘excellent’ advice on a variety of disputes concerning trusts, executors, and actions against attorneys. Practice head Jenny Ray‘s varied caseload consists of trust disputes and will validity claims, while the ‘excellent’ Lucienne Westbrook often assists with claims concerning Powers of Attorney, abuse, and financial provision as part of her broad practice. Cathryn Culverhouse was promoted to partner in July 2023, and is well-versed in secret trusts and validity disputes.
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Praised as ‘simply the best’, Tessa Grayson helms the DMH Stallard LLP clinical negligence group, which has recently been engaged to assist a plethora of clients with multiple defendant claims, and cases involving delays in diagnoses and errors in treatment at birth. Grayson frequently handles matters pertaining to obstetrics and birth injuries, while Lucienne Westbrook is a court-appointed deputy who regularly acts for families in inquests.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Contentious trusts and probate South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant