Neil Holland

Director

Neil is a Director working in the Compensation department, specialising in catastrophic cases caused through clinical negligence or personal injury.

Expertise

Neil specialises in winning high value awards of damages for people with serious injury and providing long term support and security to them and their families. The focus of Neil’s expertise is winning complex medical negligence cases before continuing to provide help as a professional trustee or deputy with the aim of putting the client’s care and support network in place and secure for their lifetime.  

Neil has a long history of winning high awards for his clients to over £6m but his role is not simply winning damages; this is just the start of the long term delivery of legal and personal advice. To understand what it means to suffer serious injury and how it affects families Neil spends time with charities and organisations such as the Woodlands Neurorehabilitation Centre. He is regularly invited to speak at events and provide support to families on issues related to serious injury and the law.

Neil is a professional trustee or deputy for 12 seriously injured clients with approximately £30 million under management.

Experience

• Catastrophic damages awards for seriously injured individuals exceeding £6 million.
• Long-term assistance for individuals and families through Court of Protection, Trustee, and Deputyship advice.
• Works closely with brain-related charities and other catastrophic injury charities to help families understand what it means to suffer a serious injury.
• Provides long-term care guidance to enhance the quality of an individual’s life through the management of damages.
• Provides advice and guidance to other solicitors on Deputyships and Trusts for catastrophic injury clients.

Qualifications

• LLB
• LLM postgraduate thesis, professional negligence

Successful Cases

• £6,200,000 for a girl with cerebral palsy.
• £4,500,000 for a girl with a brain injury following a delayed diagnosis of meningitis.
• £1,200,000 for a girl with a spinal cord injury and subsequent amputation.
• £870,000 for a lady with drug-induced ototoxicity.
• £425,000 for a man suffering a brain injury following a delayed diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage.
• £250,000 for a lady who suffered brain damage following a failure to treat hyponatremia.
• £150,000 for a man who sustained nerve damage following a failure to diagnose a tumour.
• £110,000 for the widow of a man who died following a failure to detect a heart condition.