Martyn Gwyther
Thompsons Solicitors LLPThe PI practice at Thompsons Solicitors LLP is Manchester-based. A prominent focus of the team is acting on work-related travel claims, examples being acting for employee claimants who have experienced illness on work excursions, and acting for flight attendants injured in-flight. Further, the team has experience handling surgical claims regarding clinical negligence overseas, as well as RTAs, product liability, and modern slavery matters. It handles such matters in UK courts, and provides its claimant clients with aftercare where required. Team head Martyn Gwyther is well-regarded for his ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of travel law’.
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‘As well as being a leading claimant-oriented PI firm with expertise in pursuing claims on behalf of injured workers, Thompsons has a long-established department dealing with cross-border and foreign jurisdiction claims. This expertise covers areas not normally dealt with by claimant firms.'
‘Martyn Gwyther is a very steady and experienced litigator who is both thorough and personable. Neil Richards is also very experienced with knowledge of both claimant and defendant sides of the fence who is an effective and pragmatic operator.’
‘Martyn Gwyther is a figurehead and team leader who is excellent in highly technical cases, has encyclopaedic knowledge of travel law and is commercially astute.’
'They are uniquely well-placed to help union members who are injured overseas.’
‘Martyn Gwyther is a hugely knowledgeable and well-known solicitor in cross-border claims. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law and procedure of foreign jurisdictions who really stands out in the field. Neil Richards is a solicitor with over 20 years of experience who knows how his opponents think.'
‘Martyn Gwyther is extremely good at handling clients and making them feel their claim is in the best hands (and it certainly is). He will always be there for his clients, making them feel they are not alone in this difficult world of cross-border ligation.'
'Good international personal injury work.'
'One of the pre-eminent practices in the country. Unique union-based background with a prioritisation of the claimant's rights.'
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Martyn Gwyther