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Jayne Adams KC

Jayne Adams KC

Ropewalk Chambers, East Midlands

Work Department

Disease, personal injury, clinical negligence, counter fraud, criminal regulatory and professional discipline and regulation.

Position

Jayne has extensive experience in personal injury, clinical negligence, disease and fraudulent claims litigation, travelling throughout England and Wales. Jayne is frequently invited to provide lectures in all of the areas above, but particularly in the industrial disease field to both solicitor and insurer clients. She is registered with the Bar Council to undertake Public Access work and is able to receive instructions directly from lay clients, as well as those on the traditional professional client basis. Notable cases include: Dunn v National Grid Gas PLC [2010] Lawtel (level of damages, mesothelioma); White v E.On [2008] EWCA Civ 146 (limitation, HAVS); Brett v University of Reading [2007] EWCA Civ 88 (breach of duty, mesothelioma).

Career

Called 1982.

Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association; Nottinghamshire Medico Legal Society.

Education

University of Birmingham (LLB).

Mentions

Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Personal injury

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Jayne Adams KC –Ropewalk Chambers ‘Jayne is absolutely meticulous in preparation, phenomenally knowledgeable and an awesome advocate, skillfully extracting crucial responses from seemingly innocuous cross-examination. Major clients repeatedly ask for her, a great testament not only to her gravitas as a KC, but also her approachability and warmth. She is exceptional in producing innovative solutions to the thorniest of cases.'