Speakers
Jonathan Cook
Session
Jonathan and James will reflect on key legal developments over the past twelve months and look ahead at where they see the risks on the horizon. There second part of the session will be a ‘claims surgery’ where attendees can bring along any knotty issues they are facing for discussion and advice.
Jonathan has spent his entire career supporting local authorities faced with civil claims, predominantly those involving highways, occupiers’ liability, workplace and housing disrepair legislation. He has immersed himself in local authority claims and risk management and is the primary contact for many clients. He also thrives on investigating claims, which brings him into regular contact with local authority claims managers and handlers, as well as employees from varied client departments.
Jonathan is instrumental in the success of the Browne Jacobson ‘Claims Club’, a regular in person seminar where the focus is on risk in the public sector. This affords him the opportunity to meet with colleagues from risk management and claims handling departments of authorities on a regular basis.
Jonathan engages with ALARM, predominantly in the London area, but also at national level.
James is the head of Browne Jacobson's national technical claims team. He specialises in defendant insurance litigation, with particular expertise in complex personal injury litigation, claims arising from equality and human rights legislation and environmental claims. His large over-arching team includes our local authority team, disease, education and counter-fraud sub-teams and social housing experts.
James currently handles a varied caseload of complex, high value litigation, acting on behalf of local authorities, public bodies, educational establishments, as well as commercial and agricultural organisations. He has considerable experience in handling catastrophic injury claims, including cases involving traumatic brain injury, amputation, fatal accidents, disease and stress at work claims. He has also developed an interest and expertise in managing large scale litigation following environmental events, to include catastrophic flooding.
James works closely with and is the client partner for a number of key clients, providing tailored training sessions supporting the development of in-house teams and offering bespoke risk management advice across our client base.