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Our personal injury lawyers are a well-regarded specialist unit undertaking high value, complex work, including head injury, spinal injury and catastrophic injury cases; complex asbestos disease work and significant value cases involving cross border elements.
We are on the approved solicitors list for Headway, appearing in their regional guides covering our Southampton, Poole and Salisbury offices. We are one of two preferred legal partners in the South West for the Spinal Injuries Association. James Braund is leading a major expansion of high value personal injury work in Dorset. Fran Gillett is doing the same in Wiltshire and Somerset.

John Hall heads up the team which is the home for our clinical negligence, occupational disease, and PI lawyers. He has a thriving asbestos practice, based on 25 years exclusive work on mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, asbestosis, and pleural thickening cases, first as a partner in the national PI law firm, Thompsons and, for the past eight years with Trethowans. Many of his cases are high value and legally complex. John is also the Coordinator of the Southern Region of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (apil).

We undertake a range of complex high value cases (worth several million pounds) through to those worth £25,000+. Due to our technical expertise and experience we are able to undertake cases where the issues of breach of duty, causation and quantum are difficult. We regularly recover seven figure damages for injured clients.

Chambers Review

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Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant - The South
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Band 2
What the Team is Known For

Trethowans has a well-reputed personal injury practice specialising in high-value claims. The group acts for clients who have suffered traumatic and catastrophic injuries, most notably head and spinal injuries, as well as multiple orthopaedic injuries. Its practitioners act for claimants who have suffered life-changing injuries at work as well as claims concerning fatal accidents, public liability and occupiers' liability.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Gavin Lane
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Gavin Lane
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Band 2

Gavin Lane has extensive experience in personal injury mandates, with particular knowledge of catastrophic injury and employers' liability claims.

"Gavin Lane is a seasoned professional with a granary of experience and knowledge. He is able to identify swiftly all the winning areas of a claim and prosecute successfully."

"He will not give up and shows impressive tenacity to deliver the correct result for his clients."

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The South

Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant

Gavin Lane
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Gavin Lane
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Band 2

Members

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Frances Gillett

John Hall

Head of Department

Laura Rowe