Head of the Injury and Medical Claims department, Jackie specialises in high value, complex work. From the start of her distinguished career, Jackie’s focus has been on helping clients who have suffered life changing injuries.
She is widely respected for representing clients with the most complex injuries, including spinal injury, brain injury and amputations. She is particularly known for her expertise in child brain injury matters and is regularly recommended by barristers and medical experts in this field.
Her caseload by their nature are complex cases. Jackie has exemplary legal skills with her being quoted in Chambers as “… an amazing litigator with experience and skills that are exceptional”. She works tirelessly to secure early rehabilitation for her clients as evidenced by the substantial interim payments she obtains. Combining her extensive legal skills with qualities such as sympathy, patience and determination Jackie achieves the best possible results for her clients.
Recent successes include:
· £38million (on a lump sum basis) for a child who sustained spinal injuries and a severe traumatic brain injury in a road traffic accident. Jackie obtained interim payments during the lifetime of the litigation exceeding £4m enabling her client to move back to living in the community with their family, allowing for the purchase of a property and ensuring that an appropriate care regime was in place before resolution of the claim. The claim settled on a lump sum/periodical payment basis and is thought to be one of the highest settlements achieved for an injured person to date.
· £6.85 million for a 23-year-old who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a road traffic incident as a young child. Jackie obtained interim payments of £475,000 in less than 2 years, which enabled the client to move from her childhood home into supported independent living with a team made up of a case manager, a neuropsychologist, speech and language therapist, an occupational therapist and support workers. At the approval hearing, Jackie was specifically mentioned by the approving Judge for the work she had undertaken in turning the claim around for the client.
· £5.528million for a 28-year-old who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a road a traffic accident. Jackie resolved liability quickly and secured interim funding to enable the client to move from the family home to independent living with a rehabilitation and support team.
Her innate ability to connect with people is invaluable in helping her build good relationships with clients and their families, as well as other professionals connected to her cases. Jackie also lectures to expert witnesses for Bond Solon on personal injury, and has
Jackie is an accredited solicitor on both the Law Society Personal Injury Panel, and the Headway Brain Injury Solicitors list. Jackie is recognised as a ranked lawyer in the Chambers and Partners Directory and as a Leading Individual Lawyer in The Legal 500, where she is described as “diligent, organised and well-respected”. It goes on to say “Jackie is up there with the very best – she handles an exceptional caseload of catastrophic cases of the utmost complexity; she’s on top of every detail of a case, is wonderful with her clients and opponents; sensible, tenacious and dedicated.”
