Paul Chadder, partner and head of personal injury
Paul is recommended as an expert in his field by Chambers and Partners and leads the defendant team which is ranked in the top tier.
Paul handles all types of personal injury claims, including road traffic accidents, employers’ liability, public liability and product liability matters. He specialises in employers' liability claims involving industrial disease. Paul also handles Health & Safety Executive prosecutions and acts for insurers dealing with solicitors’ professional negligence disputes involving negligence claims arising out of personal injury actions.
Significant cases include:
- Under-settlement claim arising from a tripping incident for £300,000 that settled at mediation for £40,000.
- Claim arising from a failed stress at work claim for £360,000 that settled at mediation for £50,000.
- Successful strike out of a product liability claim and subsequent discontinuance on Appeal.
- Numerous employers' liability mesothelioma claims for large motor manufacturers.
- Claimant discontinuance of an employers' liability brain injury claim.
- Claimant discontinuance of public liability mesothelioma claim.
Paul trained at Henmans and qualified in 1998 and was made an associate in 2004 and a partner in 2008.
Paul is joint author of Health and Safety at Work Essentials and author of a Risk Assessment Kit, both published by Lawpack. He is accredited by the Law Society as a personal injury specialist, is a member of Oxford’s Medico-Legal Society and is a member of the Reading Chartered Insurance Institute.
Irvin Thobourne, associate litigation executive
Handles all personal injury claims, specialising in road traffic accidents, employers’ and public liability claims. He has particular expertise in claims involving the MIB.
Irvin worked for four years at Shoosmiths, specialising in personal injury. He joined Henmans in 1997 and was made an associate in 2002. Irvin has used his specialist experience to develop SolCase, the team’s bespoke case management system. He is a member of the Oxford Medico-Legal Society.
Jane handles all types of personal injury claims, including road traffic accident claims, accidents at work and public liability claims. She has also successfully brought claims for contribution/indemnity against third parties in both road traffic accidents and employers liability claims.
Jane also has experience in dealing with Health & Safety Executive prosecutions.
Jane’s notable claims include:
- Defence of several claims arising out of accident involving a minibus carrying factory workers, including claim by dependant spouse of deceased immigrant worker.
- Successful recovery at trial of insurer’s outlay under s.151 Road Traffic Act 1988 dealing with a road traffic insurer’s obligations under the Act and subsequent right of recovery in a case in which the defendant alleged that the claimant had obtained judgment against the wrong party.
- Claim for contribution to insurer’s outlay following accident involving an agency worker engaged to hire a fork lift truck.
- Defending several claims arising from accidents at leisure centres and theme parks.
Jane also acts for insurers in professional negligence disputes against solicitors arising out of personal injury claims and in medical malpractice claims, including alleged negligent cosmetic surgery and chiropractic treatment.
Jane trained at Henmans and qualified in 2003. She was made an Associate in 2009. Jane is accredited by the Law Society as a personal injury specialist and a member of the Reading Chartered Insurance Institute. She is also a member of the Oxford Medico-Legal Society.
Specialises in defendant insurance litigation, advising a large number of insurers and their insureds on the defence of public, product and employer's liability matters. In addition, he is part of the firm's specialist unit which defends employers and their insurers against claims for industrial disease.
He also has a particular interest in defending professional negligence claims brought against solicitors and healthcare professionals.
Thomas joined Henmans LLP in 2009 as a trainee and qualified in September 2011. He is a national committee member of the Law Society and Secretary of the Oxford Medico-Legal Society.