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Hugh James is known for its expertise in product liability, personal injury and environmental litigation. It has notable experience handling group claims relating to these areas, including collective actions concerning faulty medical devices, nuisance and industrial disease.
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Hugh James continued to represent several thousand military personnel in noise-induced hearing loss claims against the Ministry of Defence.
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They have enormous experience and exceptional talent and depth.
Hugh James bring a lot of heft to any proposal they work on. They put resources into getting things right and are pragmatic and collaborative.
Hugh James are very good at client care. They're very reasonable and measured in their approach to litigation, which is refreshing.
An unparalleled team on big group nuisance claims and very good at managing a large and disparate claimant group.
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Neil Stockdale is the head of Hugh James's collective litigation team. He acts in a range of group litigation actions spanning real estate, environment, financial services and professional negligence.
Neil is a careful and thoughtful litigator with years of experience in environmental cases. I rely on his judgement and he is excellent in his field.
Neil is a great strategist.
Neil is an extremely professional and thoughtful person who has a lot of experience and know what he's doing. Nothing much fazes him, which is extremely important in litigation.
Stephanie Eedy is head of the environmental group claims team at Hugh James. Her expertise in representing groups of claimants in environmental litigation sees her routinely advising on odour, noise and nuisance group claims.
Stephanie has a good grasp of nuisance cases as well as of group litigation and GLO procedures.
James Gibson is a partner in the collective litigation team. He has considerable experience in leading group claims relating to industrial and environmental disease, including those with an international dimension.
James has long experience and very balanced judgement.
Mark Harvey leads the specialist claims group at Hugh James and acts for both groups and individuals. He is well regarded for his representation of claimant groups in product liability-related group actions concerning defective consumer products.
He is very experienced in group cases regarding personal injury and product liability.
Kimberley Sutton is a legal director in the group actions team. She regularly acts for claimants in private nuisance actions concerning dust, noise and odour nuisance.
Kimberley has a good tactical eye for litigation.
Kimberley is very good with clients. She's very competent.
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