Skills & Experience
Personal Injury
A list summary of my core capabilities and experience
Personal Injury
Fast Tack, Intermediate Track and Multi-Track claims from Protocol stage through to trial and costs
- RTA, EL, PL, OL and non-portal designated personal injury claims
- Some Clinical Negligence, as part of mixed PI/Clin Neg caseloads
- Serious multiple injuries
- Complex liability and causation of injury claim experience
- High value claims with professional future care cost claims
- MIB, Uninsured and Untraced Drivers Agreements
- Child Injury claims and Part 8 settlement approval procedure
- Holiday illness and accidents abroad claims
- Personally researching, estimating and advising clients on quantum and settlement
- Drafting Particulars of Claim, Schedules of Loss, Witness Statement, court applications, summaries
- Handling Fixed Recoverable Costs, Drafting Precedent H Costs Budgets and budget replies, Schedules of Costs for Summary Assessment
- Representing clients at CCMC’s
- Drafting consent orders and Tomlin Orders
- Instructing and briefing counsel
- Reporting to ATE insurers
- Instructing costs drafting services and handling provisional and detailed assessment procedure
Civil Litigation
Non-personal Injury dispute areas I have sound experience of handling
Civil Litigation
I have experience of a range of non-PI contentious matters.
- Breach of Commercial, goods or services contract disputes, usually for payments due or damages
- Debt recovery proceedings
- Proceedings for injunctive orders
- Boundary dispute action in the County Court
- Contentious Probate: drafting detailed letters of claim for a specialist firm
- Trusts of Land (TOLATA) claims and settlement
- Some residential tenancy, Assured Shorthold, possession proceedings
Work I’m looking to develop
I am looking to apply my apply transferable skills and learning in these areas
Work I’m looking to develop further
I am keenly open to opportunities to further my transferrable skills and experience in the following fields
- Property Litigation: Dilapidations and Service Charges
- Commercial Landlord and Tenant
- Residential possession
Recent Assignments
DWS Legal, Solicitors | Leicester
August 2026 to present
Part-time, Locum/interim, Claimant personal injury.
Cooper & Co, Solicitors | Canterbury
2023 to present
Solicitor Consultant contracted in specialist firm. Defending and settling dog attack compensation claims for uninsured defendant owners.
Paris Smith, Solicitors | Southampton
April 2026 to August 2026
Part-time, interim claimant personal injury claims solicitor.
Chapman & Chub, Solicitors | Derbyshire
May 2021 to 2023
Part-time, Solicitor Consultant, contracted. Mixed civil litigation including claimant personal injury.
Buckles, Solicitors | Peterborough
April 2021 to May 2022
Part-time, Solicitor Consultant, claimant personal injury. Multi-Track serious injury litigation.
Rider Support, Solicitors | Putney, South London
May 2019 to August 2020
Locum Solicitor. Claimant Personal Injury for firm specialising in motorbike rider accident claims. Handling multiple injury claims in the Fast Track and Multi-Track.
Career History
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