England - West Midlands • Insurance
DWF
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‘The Birmingham office of DWF has some of their strongest people with a loyal following’ which is led by a number of highly regarded practitioners, among them the 'very tactically astute' Charles Ashmore, Lionel Marcus and Claire Pritchard. Lorraine Carolan is a leading figure in the firm’s national fraud and financial crime team. Derek Adamson garners praise for his specialism in various areas such as mesothelioma claims, legionnaires’ disease and local authority work. Paul Donnelly has an excellent reputation for his work on sensitive cases with children involving sexual abuse and chronic neglect cases. Denise Brosnan is now at Kennedys and Jacqui Kendall joined the practice from Plexus Law, followed by a number of her former colleagues, including highly regarded partners Damon Burt and Anthony Bushell.
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‘Charles Ashmore and Jayne Doore stand out - both are extremely hard workers who are a pleasure to work for.’
‘DWF is a powerhouse with great teams in London, Manchester and Birmingham. The Birmingham team have some stand-out stars and are incredibly hard-working.’
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Key clients
- RSA
- AVIVA
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Work highlights
- In AB v (1) Worcestershire County Council & (2) Birmingham City Council [2022] EWHC 115 (QB) -acting for Birmingham City Council, the team was successful in persuading the court that as a child does not have a civil right to be taken into care, there can be no breach of Art6 of the ECHR and that the Art3 ECHR threshold was not met. Permission to appeal has been granted and the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal.
- Acts for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in connection with the personal injury claims (and indeed the public enquiry) arising from the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017.
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