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Travel: International Personal Injury - London (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Asela Wijeyaratne primarily acts for claimants in cases emerging from a variety of transport accidents, including RTAs and aircraft crashes. He assists with evidence concerning local standards, applicable law issues and treaties such as the Montreal and Athens Conventions. He is frequently instructed in injury and illness claims under package travel regulations. His clients include travel agents, airlines, tour operators and consumers.
Strengths
Asela manages to have incredible technical and sector knowledge and delivers this in a friendly and approachable style.
Asela offers unrivalled knowledge of someone of his experience. He will always give a straight answer, and is very responsive.
He provides meticulous analysis of the issues in any given case, and measured, forensic advocacy along with excellent and relatable client care skills.
He is very adept at grasping the salient issues, explaining them straightforwardly and effectively for myself and for my clients, and setting in place helpful timelines and guidance for next steps.