Led by the highly regarded Clive Garner, a strong team of overseas-qualified lawyers offers the 'necessary expertise' to handle a range of cases from European jurisdictions, as well as the US and other countries.
Legal 500 – Travel and Holiday Section (2006)
Legal 500 Guide
This well respected guide to the legal profession is consistently recognising Irwin Mitchell as a leader in overseas claims.
Below are some recent entries in the Legal 500 guide for Irwin Mitchell:
2011
"Irwin Mitchell focuses largely on handling personal injury work in the transport field. It ‘obtains the best, but most realistic outcomes’ and can draw on ‘lawyers qualified in many countries within the EU, the US and Asia. Clive Garner is extremely capable and intelligent, with great forensic skills."
2010
“Clive Garner heads a large team at Irwin Mitchell LLP. The international travel litigation group has an enviable reputation; areas of growth include serious injury and fatal claims arising from road traffic, coach and aviation crashes and group action illness claims. It advised on the Bulgarian coach crash case, in which liability was established against TUI UK at trial on behalf of 24 claimants.”
2009
"A strong contentious transport group that specialises in travel litigation claims. Clive Garner’s team has recovered several million pounds of damages over the past year for clients affected by international coach crashes."
2007
Led by Clive Garner, Irwin Mitchell is 'the leading firm for claimant work' and is highly regarded in the travel and holiday market. The department specialises in group action claims and recently successfully recovered damages for almost 2,000 clients following outbreaks of Legionnaires' Disease, Salmonella, E-Coli and other illnesses across a range of countries. The practice also succeeded in recovering more than 1m for an English claimant injured in an accident in the U.S.
"Irwin Mitchell is 'the leading firm for claimant work' and is highly regarded in the travel and holiday market".
2006
"Claimant clients are very impressed with Irwin Mitchell’s first class International Travel Litigation Group, which has been involved in a number of ground breaking cases relating to accidents and illness abroad. Led by highly regarded Clive Garner, the strong team of overseas qualified lawyers offers the “necessary expertise” to handle a range of cases from European jurisdictions, as well as the US and other countries".
2005
"Claimant clients are ‘very impressed’ with Irwin Mitchell’s first-class international travel litigation group, which has been involved in a number of ground-breaking cases relating to accidents and illness abroad. Led by the highly regarded Clive Garner, a strong team of overseas-qualified lawyers offers the ‘necessary expertise’ to handle a range of cases from European jurisdictions, as well as the US and other countries."
2004
"The UK’s leading claimant practice".
We are very happy with the settlement that Irwin Mitchell has achieved for us, and the way that Irwin Mitchell has dealt with our claim.
Mr and Mrs Beven, Sunderland