Dolmans

Drawing upon ‘solid tactical acumen allied with shrewd financial awareness’, Dolmans is consistently engaged in the highest-profile mandates across the spectrum of personal injury work and richly deserves its reputation as ’the go-to defendant firm in Wales for insurers and local authorities alike’. In addition to his multi-track work for a number of local authorities, ‘outstanding litigator’ Justin Harris heads up the firm’s road traffic department, which through its panel appointment with Ageas Insurance Company receives a raft of high-profile and complex catastrophic defence work. The ’outstanding’ Peter Bennett regularly takes the lead on challenging matters, including group litigation for public authorities and insurers in the defence of claims relating to industrial accidents and industrial disease. Leveraging his ‘excellent legal knowledge’, Simon Evans ’is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcome for his clients’ across a wide range of defence work, spanning employers’ and public liability, as well as road traffic and property-related defence work. Nicola Edwards has a ‘great understanding of the challenges of the public sector’ and regularly handles a range of work for both local authorities and police forces. Melanie Standley ’delivers confident advice on complex matters’, including in the defence of claims against social services for alleged failure to protect children from abuse and neglect, work which Edwards and Clare Hoskins also specialise in. Adrian Oliver heads up the team and has vast experience representing police forces across many claims; he continues to represent West Midlands Police in the long-running litigation arising out of the Hillsborough disaster.