Birmingham Head Injury Team | The Head Injury Site

What our clients say...

We found that the help and advice offered by Irwin Mitchell's client liaison service has been vitally important at a time when we all really needed support. It has been accurate and professional but, above all, shown a genuine understanding and concern for our feelings during a very difficult time and has enabled us, as a family, to cope so much better than we could have done on our own.

Helen Watson

Birmingham Head Injury Team

Imperial House
31 Temple Street
Birmingham
B2 5DB

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Tel: 0800 9174 199
Fax: 0121 643 6021

Our Birmingham team provides a service across the West Midlands and South/Mid Wales. Birmingham also provides the base for our international team for accidents abroad.

Reputation

Our Birmingham office has been the subject of positive comments in two independent guides to the legal profession, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

Legal 500

Irwin Mitchell LLP is ‘pre-eminent in the West Midlands’, led by ‘established doyen of claimant PI’ Stuart Henderson. The team has particular expertise in neurotrauma, catastrophic injury and asbestos disease cases... Philip Edwards is ‘passionate and skilled’.

Chambers & Partners

Irwin Mitchell's Birmingham office receives universal acclaim from market sources and is hailed as "the undoubted leader in the PI field." The group has particular expertise in serious brain and spinal injuries as well as asbestos-related claims. Sources say: "They dominate the market with their sheer size and the depth of expertise available within the firm."

Client Service

"They are beautifully well organised and superb with clients. I have been very impressed with their interpersonal skills – they make clients feel part of the team."

Key individuals

Stuart Henderson has recently been active on an RTA case which settled for £2.2 million, as well as handling spinal injury and fatal accident cases. He is regarded by observers as "one of the best claimant solicitors in the country." His experience and profile in the field are such that "insurers are wary of his reputation," sources say.

Support Groups

West Midlands

Wales

Staff Profiles

Stuart Henderson - Partner

I became a personal injury lawyer to achieve justice for my clients and to make a difference to their lives and that is what drives me and gets me out of bed in the morning. I am very committed to all of my clients many of whom have become longstanding personal friends and whose response to their newly found circumstances is a constant source of inspiration to me.

Philip Edwards - Partner

I am a Partner and lead a team specialising in head injury claims. I have particular expertise in road traffic collision cases, and accidents at work.

Hilary Wetherell - Partner

I am an Partner in the team in Birmingham. I handle a wide variety of high value personal injury claims and have a particular expertise in brain injury cases, criminal injury claims and accidents at work.

Stephen Nye - Partner

I am a Partner in the Birmingham head injury team, with considerable experience in representing children and adults who have sustained head and brain injuries.

Rebecca Hearsey - Associate

I am an Associate in one of our head injury teams in Birmingham; originally I qualified as a Barrister. I deal with varying types of high value personal injury claims and have specific interest in brain injury claims and claims involving complex psychiatric and psychological injury.

Annette Ginns - Associate

I believe that our role as lawyers is not, and should not be limited to obtaining an award of damages. I endeavour to do everything in my power to help my clients to maximise their recovery, obtain the medical treatment they need, adapt to their situation, and have a better quality of life than they may have thought possible when their injury first occurred.

Nicola Golding - Associate

I am an Associate working in the Birmingham head injury team, having joined in 2000. I specialise in cases involving catastrophic personal injury and work for Claimants who have sustained a brain injury.

Katherine Campbell - Solicitor

I am a Solicitor in our Birmingham brain injury team. I qualified into the team in 2009 having worked there since 2004. I specialise in catastrophic brain injury cases for both adults and children.

Rita Lal - Solicitor

I joined the head injury team in Birmingham as a Solicitor in January 2009. I specialise in catastrophic injuries where the client has suffered a significant brain injury. I always try to utilise my past nursing experience with my legal knowledge and experience when dealing with clients and their families.

Ann Houghton - Solicitor

I am a solicitor in the Birmingham team and have experience of working with clients who have serious brain and orthopaedic injuries. I have worked on numerous high value cases.

Derek Boughey - Investigative Clerk

I have been a member of our team in Birmingham since October 1994. I carry out investigations into road traffic collisions, factory accidents and other accidents involving serious personal injury. Many of those accidents include clients who have suffered head injuries.

Helena Bryant - Client Liaison Manager

As an Occupational Therapist my focus is always to establish what is important to the individual client, what are their priorities and how can I assist them and the team working with them to help them achieve their goals.

Katie Jones - Legal Executive I joined Irwin Mitchell's Serious Injury Team in July 2011, having been at the firm since 2002. I joined the team to help people who have sustained serious injuries and to help make a difference to their unfamiliar and often very transformed lives.