Experience Overview

Jane is a Personal Injury lawyer with more than 15 years of experience, representing clients in industrial disease cases with particular emphasis on the areas of occupational stress and deafness.

As the main supervisor in the Sheffield office, Jane is responsible for the training of incoming executives and the Legal Expenses Insurance Unit. She has experience in higher valued cases for both private and union clients.

Jane deals primarily with employer’s liability accident cases but has expertise in a number of occupational disease cases too; this includes Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), stress, industrial deafness, Vibration White Finger (VWF).

Jane is the firms Partner in charge of supervision and has assisted in achieving Lexcel accreditation with her draft of the PI department’s Best Practice Manual.

Clients praise this operation for its "experience of legal and factual matrices" and its talent for presenting "the correct advice in a sensitive manner." Market sources identify the ability to "select and retain quality of staff" as an important factor in the group’s ongoing success. Chambers 2009.

Jane's profile for The Lawyer was published on 11.04.2011.  Her answers can be found on The Lawyer website.

Reported Cases

Lunchtime Sandwich from Boots ends up costing Karen Addy £3000 - Jane worked on this case which involved a woman who needed three thousand pounds’ worth of dental treatment after biting into a Boots-bought sandwich.

Colin White Awarded GBP500,000 Compensation After Accident at Work - Jane acted for Mr Colin White who suffered very severe injuries to his back after an accident at work.