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Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant

Slater and Gordon

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The Cambridge office of national personal injury firm Slater and Gordon is home to experienced practitioners who have a high standing for their success in high-value and complex claims. Angela Beric, who is handling a £15m traumatic brain injury claim, is ‘a very experienced and competent litigator with much experience of claims of the utmost severity’. Richard Gaffney, who focuses on catastrophic injury claims, has ’a strong commercial sense and a charming manner'. Paul Tapner, who is acting for a client who sustained a series of rugby injuries leading to a catastrophic brain injury, exhibits ‘sound judgment' and senior associate Crystal Eaton is ’hugely committed to her clients’ cases‘.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very strong team of personal injury practitioners who maintain an excellent caring ethos along with great skill and experience.’

  • ‘Richard Gaffney is a partner with great experience of serious and complex personal injury claims, a strong commercial sense, and a charming manner. Angela Beric is another very experienced and competent litigator with much experience of claims of the utmost severity.’

  • ‘The team undertakes high-value, complex work, across the range of serious and catastrophic injury.’

  • ‘Crystal Eaton is hugely committed to her clients’ cases. She has an excellent manner with those who have suffered serious injury and makes complex concepts easy to understand. Clients really feel that their voices are being heard. She is very pragmatic and organised on obtaining appropriate expert evidence. She is able to manage expectations whilst also achieving the best result for clients.’

  • ‘Large firm of solicitors. I work with the Cambridge team, which is excellent. They go the extra mile to help claimants.’

  • ‘Paul Tapner is exceptional at his work - goes above and beyond- and leads a team of excellent solicitors.'

  • ‘Richard Gaffney is a very diligent and highly experienced personal injury lawyer, adept at dealing with points of detail’

  • ‘The firm's Cambridge office has fee earners at all levels so as to be able to match the lawyer to the case appropriately .’

Work highlights

  • Representing an individual who sustained a series of rugby injuries over the course of two months, which eventually led to a catastrophic brain injury on the pitch, in a highly complex claim on liability.
  • Representing an individual who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, multiple fractures and lesions in a road traffic accident whilst travelling as a front seat passenger in a car driven by his father.
  • Representing an individual who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, various skull fractures, rib and leg fractures as well as soft tissue injuries, as a result of an RTA.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

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Paul Tapner

Hall of fameSlater and Gordon

Paul is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon’s offices in Cambridge and Manchester, and specialises in in serious injury cases including spinal injuries, head injuries, amputation injuries and fatal injury claims. Paul is part of a high quality team of serious injury solicitors who fight complex, difficult cases that most other lawyers wouldn’t touch. Paul excels in creative thinking, always looking to push the boundaries of what can and can’t be claimed. Paul gives clear and incisive second opinions on cases handled by other lawyers.

Rising stars

Leading individuals

Angela Beric

Angela Beric

Slater and Gordon

Angela is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Cambridge. She specialises in serious injury claims with a particular emphasis on child brain injury claims. She is a strong advocate of rehabilitation and care packages funded by the defendants under the Rehabilitation Code. When that is not possible, she always tries to obtain the maximum interim payment to help meet the immediate and ongoing needs of her clients. She is an outstanding lawyer whose calm, sympathetic and reassuring manner makes clients with serious injuries know they are in good hands.

Richard Gaffney

Slater and Gordon

Richard is a Principal Lawyer in the personal injury team at Slater and Gordon’s offices in Cambridge. He specialises in claims involving catastrophic and serious injuries. Richard has significant experience in claims involving head injury, multiple orthopaedic, amputation and fatal accident claims. He spent 10 years in the armed forces before becoming a lawyer so has particular experience in dealing with military accident claims. Richard is also Slater & Gordon’s principal lawyer for Cycling UK, the UK’s national cycling charity.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Madelene Holdsworth (Manchester)

Other key lawyers

Paul Tapner, Angela Beric, Richard Gaffney, Crystal Eaton, Manvendar Bhatti

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