DAC Beachcroft Claims Limited

Acting independently, as well as alongside lawyers from the firm’s Bristol office, the ‘very approachable’ Newport-based team at DAC Beachcroft LLP provides ’sensible, clear and commercial advice’ to an exclusively defendant-focused client base across a range of professional negligence claims, often involving multiple claimants. Most of this work relates to claims brought against solicitors, an area that the firm is ‘extremely knowledgeable both in the legal issues affecting a case and on regulatory matters’. Drawing upon ’unparalleled client care and industry knowledge’, team head Clare Hughes-Williams is ‘very well respected’ in relation to private litigation, as well as disciplinary hearings involving the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Praised for her ’very methodical’ approach, which helps to ‘narrow down any contentious issues’, Catrin Davies is also a key member of the team, as is Tom Bedford, who ’fights for his clients while keeping a close eye on the commercial reality of the situation’.