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Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant

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3 Years Ranked

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Provided by Oliver Chapman

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Oliver has specialised in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation since 2009.

His personal injury work includes all aspects of occupiers' and employers' liability, road traffic accidents, highway, sports injury and Animals Act cases and harassment in the workplace. The majority of his clients have suffered brain and/or vestibular and/or serious orthopaedic and/or psychiatric injuries.

Oliver is part of the firm’s asbestos team and specialises in mesothelioma claims.

His clinical negligence experience involves a wide range of areas including A&E, care of the elderly, general practice, general surgery, gynaecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, orthopaedic and spinal surgery, nephrology, nursing and urology.

Career

Oliver joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2007 and qualified as a solicitor in 2009. He was made a partner in 2019.

Before joining Thomson Snell & Passmore, Oliver spent several years working as a carer for both children and adults with special needs. Having spent a year as a live-in carer for a young man with cerebral palsy, he gained valuable insight into the care, equipment and accommodation elements of high-value cases.

Professional Memberships

Oliver is a member of the Law Society’s prestigious personal injury accreditation scheme and acknowledged by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) as a “senior litigator”.

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Oliver Chapman advises on claims concerning brain and spinal injury, with further experience handling psychiatric injury cases. He also acts in industrial disease claims.

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