Mark Walter Hollinghurst
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant
Band 2
About
Provided by Mark Walter Hollinghurst
Practice Areas
Mark specialises in brain and spinal injuries for adults and children arising from all types of accidents and assault.
Mark’s case load of serious brain injury claims for adults and children includes a significant number of multi-million-pound claims for those suffering from serious brain injury.
Mark has particular expertise in dealing with cases involving minimally conscious clients where there is often a cross-over with parallel Court of Protection proceedings, for example where there are issues about the client’s future residence. Mark will fight tenaciously for the most profoundly injured clients to return to an adapted home setting if that is clinically appropriate.
Mark also specialises in claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority relating to serious brain injury from assaults.
Professional Memberships
Mark is involved in a number of external organisations associated with his work:
Co-Founder and Chair of Headway Yorkshire East Coast, branch of Headway (the brain injury charity)
Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Member of UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum
Mark has been nationally recognised for his brain injury claims practice, winning the Lawyer of The Year Award at the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum Awards 2017.
Work Highlights
Represented a male who suffered profound brain injuries, initially minimally conscious. Able to return home with a very significant care package. Settlement of a lump sum plus annual payments, amounting to multi-millions over lifetime.
Claim for male suffering serious brain injury, with difficult background circumstances. Settlement of multi-millions.
Claim for male suffering serious brain injury, damaging previously good career prospects. Settlement of multi-millions.
Claim for a female relating to moderately serious brain injury and orthopaedic injuries. Settlement in excess of £1million.
Chambers Review
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Mark Hollinghurst co-heads the personal injury department and leads the brain and spinal injury team based in Doncaster. He has extensive experience handling serious brain injury cases and specialises in high-value brain and spinal injury claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mark adopts a very hands-on approach to his cases. He is thoughtful, measured, compassionate and ambitious in his approach. He is proactive and a tough negotiator."
"He is extremely knowledgeable and has an excellent manner with clients and is fantastic at putting them at their ease and explaining the way forward. You want him in your corner."
"Mark adopts a very hands-on approach to his cases. He is thoughtful, measured, compassionate and ambitious in his approach. He is proactive and a tough negotiator."
"He is extremely knowledgeable and has an excellent manner with clients and is fantastic at putting them at their ease and explaining the way forward. You want him in your corner."
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