Contact Me
By Telephone:By all means ring me on 0845 021 2222 to discuss your potential claim. I will be delighted to hear from you.
By e-mail:
Alternatively please e-mail me at bhmk AT lineone.net. (Please insert the @ manually. I have excluded here as a simple anti-spam measure).
By Post:
Address: Sovereign House, Solent Way, Gosport, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
About Me
Career and Personal Resume
- Educated at Eastbourne Grammar School
- 1980-2: Volunteer at Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, followed by work and then travel in Europe and India
- 1982-5: BA Degree in Development Studies (a multidisciplinary study of the issues faced by developing nations) at UEA
- 1985-6: Masters Degree in Middle East Politics at Exeter University (SERC Scholarship Winner)
- 1986-7: Journalist/sub-editor at Al-Awda, Palestine Press Services, East Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine
- 1988-90: Common Professional Examination and Law Society Finals at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (now Northumbria University)
- 1991-3: Articled clerk, then qualified solicitor at Lamport Bassitt, specialising in asbestos related compensation claims
- 1993-7: Solicitor at national Trade Union law firm Thompsons, with particular experience of back injury claims caused by unsafe lifting
- 1997-2000: Solicitor and team leader at Irwin Mitchell, dealing with full range of personal injury claims, including accidents abroad
- 2000: Started own specialist personal injury legal practice, originally in Birmingham, focusing on workplace injury compensation claims
- 2001 onwards: Senior Litigator of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and member of APIL Occupational Health Special Interest Group
- 2001: Joint founder member and past Vice-Chairman of Birmingham Sole Practitioners Group
- 2001-3: SPG Representative on Birmingham Law Society Council
- 2003: Voted "Sole Practitioner of the Year" by Birmingham Law Society members at awards ceremony at International Convention Centre
- 2004: Firm was awarded Lexcel, the Law Society's quality mark for excellence in practice management
- 2005: Elected Council Member and as a Director of Hampshire Incorporated Law Society (HILS)
- 2006 onwards: Current serving chair of HILS website sub-committee, and manager of website: www.hampshirelawsociety.co.uk
- 2010 onwards: Current serving chair of HILS mentoring sub-committee
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