Solicitor with experience of aviation negligence claims
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Solicitor with experience of aviation negligence claims
Does anyone have any recommendations for solicitors (in England/Wales) with experience in pursuing negligent third parties who have damaged/written off general aviation aircraft? Grateful if details could be sent via PM.
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Flying Lawyer seems to have disappeared..... can’t recall any recent posts from him but if he wasn’t able to help then I am sure he’d know someone who would.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
Flying Lawyer seems to have disappeared..... can’t recall any recent posts from him but if he wasn’t able to help then I am sure he’d know someone who would.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
I do recall 'Legal Approach' as a user who may have some insight..?
I think that FL's present professional status has led him to avoid offering public opinions about anything, in case he might put himself in a position of suffering a conflict of interests. A reasonable position when you consider how critical what he does for a living is, although giving his passion for both aviation and the law, I don't suppose he enjoys the position.
I have worked as an expert witness on quite a few cases. I'm not a lawyer, nor ever likely to be, but have worked for many, and have formed opinions of which firms I think do a competent job.
The two firms I've been most impressed by in recent years are a Cheshire based firm called Hilary Meredith and a Lancashire based firm called Scott Rees. I think that if I had a problem myself, I would call one of them.
Declaring an obvious interest - there's a risk that if you retain them, they might retain me. Or they might not, either way, my advice stands.
(For some reason the majority of firms in this line of work seem to be based in NW England, presumably there's a community of lawyers there who have bult up expertise and tend to jump about and/or support each other, I've never asked.)
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I have worked as an expert witness on quite a few cases. I'm not a lawyer, nor ever likely to be, but have worked for many, and have formed opinions of which firms I think do a competent job.
The two firms I've been most impressed by in recent years are a Cheshire based firm called Hilary Meredith and a Lancashire based firm called Scott Rees. I think that if I had a problem myself, I would call one of them.
Declaring an obvious interest - there's a risk that if you retain them, they might retain me. Or they might not, either way, my advice stands.
(For some reason the majority of firms in this line of work seem to be based in NW England, presumably there's a community of lawyers there who have bult up expertise and tend to jump about and/or support each other, I've never asked.)
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On the one occasion I required legal advice on an aviation matter many years go, I obtained it via AOPA.
The advice was free based on my AOPA membership fee, and was provided by a firm of solicitors retained by AOPA.
These days I’m given to understand that the only free legal advice given by AOPA is “consult a soilicitor.”
The advice was free based on my AOPA membership fee, and was provided by a firm of solicitors retained by AOPA.
These days I’m given to understand that the only free legal advice given by AOPA is “consult a soilicitor.”
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You might want to try the solicitor who is acting for the relatives of those killed in the Shoreham, he is also an ex-RAF pilot. You should be able to google it.
Also check your insurance policies including home policies, in that case you might be covered for legal issues, in which case if you are insured, your insurance company will appoint a lawyer.
Remember if this matter is going to court, these days you can instruct a direct barrister, which cuts out a solicitor as a middle man, and saves money. The only is that you will need to put together the court bundles.
If you are talking to the other side consider ADR (Alternate dispute resolution) in the form of mediation or arbitration. This can but not always) protect you against a cost order if the other side does not want to attempt ADR. Just for clarication, arbitration is normally conducted by a retired judges, you would sit around a table with the other side and the arbitrator, gathers the facts/evidence and makes a ruling, which is legally binding and much less expensive. In fact Judge Rinder actually is an arbitrator in law, although the TV series like to give the impression it is a court of law, which it is not.
Finally you might try the Law Society website 'find a professiona', but I am not sure in the search facility they would list aviation negligence.
! hope this is of help.
Also check your insurance policies including home policies, in that case you might be covered for legal issues, in which case if you are insured, your insurance company will appoint a lawyer.
Remember if this matter is going to court, these days you can instruct a direct barrister, which cuts out a solicitor as a middle man, and saves money. The only is that you will need to put together the court bundles.
If you are talking to the other side consider ADR (Alternate dispute resolution) in the form of mediation or arbitration. This can but not always) protect you against a cost order if the other side does not want to attempt ADR. Just for clarication, arbitration is normally conducted by a retired judges, you would sit around a table with the other side and the arbitrator, gathers the facts/evidence and makes a ruling, which is legally binding and much less expensive. In fact Judge Rinder actually is an arbitrator in law, although the TV series like to give the impression it is a court of law, which it is not.
Finally you might try the Law Society website 'find a professiona', but I am not sure in the search facility they would list aviation negligence.
! hope this is of help.
Flying Lawyer seems to have disappeared..... can’t recall any recent posts from him but if he wasn’t able to help then I am sure he’d know someone who would.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
Not sure If I named him whether that would break the rules on annonimity on the forum, even though most of the people on here know who he is in real life.
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Aviation is full of crooks, I am nearly sixty and the only times in my life that I have been successfully robbed, scammed, cheated is in connection with learning to fly and operating my airplane.
Yup, all need an aviation lawyer who is of course not himself a crook
Yup, all need an aviation lawyer who is of course not himself a crook
