Author(s)
Lee
Collishaw
Jayne has been ranked in the Chambers UK Bar 2018 Guide for Personal Injury (Band 2) and highlighted in the Industrial Disease Spotlight Table.
She is highly esteemed for her experience in industrial disease claims. She has a related specialism in clinical negligence claims and also frequently handles matters involving fraud.
Strengths:
“Very knowledgeable in relation to all diseases and impressive tactically and in court.”
“Thorough, attentive and sharp.”
“She is calmness personified and has an excellent ability to distinguish the wood from the trees.”
Recent work:
Acted for the defendant in a group action brought by 57 fire and rescue workers for the effects of training in alleged contaminated water.
Ropewalk Chambers has once again achieved recognition as a leading set in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500. We continue to demonstrate our position as market-leaders in multiple areas of law by ranking as a ‘Top Tier’ set in multiple areas. Our Personal Injury Group is ranked as a top tier set and is…
In Toure v Ken Wilkins Print [2024] IRLR 282 The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered an appeal by the claimant who had raised a grievance against his employer alleging that he had been racially abused. The grievance was not upheld, the employer concluding that the alleged incidents had not taken place. The employee appealed, but in…
The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on 14 March 2024, dismissing two conjoined appeals in cases of mesothelioma arising from asbestos exposure in the 1950s, Executors of the Estate of Thomas Albert White v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (”White”) and Executrix of the Estate of Derek Barry Cuthbert v…
