Dawn Humphries
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant
Band 2
About
Provided by Dawn Humphries
Practice Areas
A senior solicitor, and partner and head of the personal injury department, who specialises in serious and catastrophic, brain and spinal injuries arising from RTA and accidents at work resulting in damages in excess of six figures. She has a number of high profile work related stress cases, including specialist military post traumatic stress, and secondary victim claims occurring both within the UK and during tours of duty overseas. She is committed to using mediation as an alternative in dispute resolution to trial, an advocate of early interim payments for rehabilitation, case management, care accommodation, aids and equipment and vocational support.
Career
Lanyon Bowdler November 1998 to date
Professional Memberships
A member of the Law Society Panel of Personal Injury Solicitors, Senior Litigator with Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), Headway (the Brain Injury Association Head Injury Solicitors List), Spinal Injuries Association (SIA).
Publications
Case Profile published in Kemp and Kemp Quantum of Damages
Personal
LLB (Hons) University of Birmingham. Enjoys running, figure skating and plays the piano
Chambers Review
UK
Dawn Humphries handles a wide range of orthopaedic and spinal injury claims. She is active on an array of personal injury cases, including those relating to workplace accidents and RTAs.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Dawn is very highly regarded, clients love her and she's very down to earth."
"Dawn is empathetic and sympathetic but very calmly assertive when it came to pushing back onto defence."
"She is really on the ball and is open to having a discussion on how to improve the case."
"Dawn is very highly regarded, clients love her and she's very down to earth."
"Dawn is empathetic and sympathetic but very calmly assertive when it came to pushing back onto defence."
"She is really on the ball and is open to having a discussion on how to improve the case."