Patrick Maguire leads the ‘formidable department’ of serious and catastrophic injury practitioners in Horwich Cohen Coghlan Solicitors. Along with its proficiency in resolving high-value catastrophic injury claims, often involving complex spinal and cognitive injuries, the team’s workload frequently includes inquests and enquiries of fatal circumstances, requiring complex assessments of medical causation, liability and quantum. Noted for his capacity to ’bring out the best of any case’, Maguire is highly experienced in fatal inquests, as well as spinal cord, cognitive and amputation claims, areas in which Amber Braybrooke is also well versed. In addition, Braybrooke holds over 10 years of experience in supporting client rehabilitation, along with serious injuries incurred in exceptional circumstances outside of workplaces or traffic accidents.
Testimonials
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‘The London team at HCC has grown over the last few years to be a formidable department. It specialises in claimant work with a particular interest in representation of victims at inquests and inquiries. This is alongside its well established claimant catastrophic injury work.’
‘Lead partner Patrick Maguire is well supported by the two partners he brought across from Slater & Gordon, namely Joe Dodman and Amber Braybrooke. they make a formidable team.’
Key clients
- Su Bushby (partner of Sgt Matt Ratana)
- Family of Gabrielle Hutchinson
Work highlights
- Represented the bereaved partner of Sergeant Matt Ratana, who was shot dead in London in 2020.
- Handling the claim and representation of all of the families of Kate Shepherd, Stephen Washington, the widow of Lee Martyn and the mother of Sophie Martyn during the Keyham Inquest.