Brain Injuries.
Our experienced Brain Injury Solicitors are here to support you through your journey following an accident that wasn't your fault.
Our Brain Injury Solicitors will provide guidance and long-term support If you or someone you know experiences a Traumatic Brain Injury.
Our Brain Injury Solicitors are highly qualified experts in handling Brain Injury Claims. We are here to support you and your family with considered and effective advice, and an unwavering level of long-term support to ensure your immediate and future needs are understood and provided for.
Coming to terms with a family member suffering a brain injury can be devastating for all involved. We are here to be part of your team, to make the best provisions for the future, and to ensure a Brain Injury Claim compensation settlement is comprehansive and far-reaching.
We listen to our clients, we appreciate their needs and we care deeply about the difference we can make in our support of you.
In the immediate aftermatch of an accident, you may not feel able to thinnk about starting a claim. You may not even contemplate seeking guidance, but the earlier you talk to our specialist Brain Injury Solicitors, the sooner we can start to help.
An injury to the brain invariably carries the possibility of life-changing consequences for the injured person and perhaps also for dependents and family members. It is crucial to seek advice from our Brain Injury Claims specialists, at the earliest convenience.
Talk to one of our specialists today.
Lanyon Bowdler is widely recognised across Mid and North Wales, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and the Midlands as a leading team of specialists, skilled at dealing with compensation claims for serious injuries to the brain. We have long standing relationships in place with a variety of professionals and organisations who can help in the immediate aftermath of a brain injury.
If you are not sure whether you are eligible for compensation, please get in touch with our Brain Injury Solicitors who will provide the initial support and advice you need. We will work with you at your pace to build a detailed overview of your needs and provide honest, expert advice on your chances of success in bringing a compensation claim for brain injury.
We’re with you for the journey ahead.
Dawn Humphries is an expert Brain Injury Solicitor, and the Head of our Personal Injury Dept. Dawn leads a team of Brain Injury Claim specialists who consistently help people across England and Wales who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. Lanyon Bowdler are renowned nationally for their legal expertise and for their standard of client care.
Dawn is one of the leading Brain Injury Solicitors for all types of traumatic accidents in England and Wales, with a history of obtaining six-figure settlements for her clients.
Our Brain Injury Solicitors are leading experts in the field, with extensive knowledge and expertise that gets clients great outcomes. Contact Lanyon Bowdler today.
Lanyon Bowdler hosted a national conference, ‘Thriving After Brain Injury’ which took place at Theatre Seven, Shrewsbury.
Over 200 delegates enjoyed a day of inspirational and educational talks. Guest speakers included GB Paralympic footballer Jack Rutter and Alex Danson MBE, who is a former England and GB hockey captain.
Back in 2016, Lanyon Bowdler hosted a national conference, ‘Surviving Brain Injury – The Journey’ which took place at Theatre Seven, Shrewsbury.
It involved experts and professionals in the brain injury field from organisations such as Headway, The Movement Centre, and Midlands Air Ambulance services.
In this episode Dawn Humphries from the Personal Injury team, with a former colleague about the challenges faced by people and their families when dealing with brain injuries.
In this episode, Dawn Humphries and Alex Spanner from the Personal Injury team discuss head injuries in professional sport, particularly in football, rugby and American football.
The personal injury team understands that victims of brain injuries and their families are concerned about their future care and rehabilitation as well as the immediate effects of their injuries. Their expertise and experience are invaluable in helping people get the right rehabilitation and establish a support network for the future in serious cases.
You can be assured that our priority will be to ensure you obtain compensation to meet your long-term needs and to guarantee your long-term comfort.
The Personal Injury Team is recognised in Tier 2 for the West Midlands in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500, the 2025 edition states ‘The ‘very client-centred’ team at Lanyon Bowdler is ably led by Dawn Humphries who is based at the Shrewsbury office. Humphries excels in serious brain and spinal injuries. She is also well-regarded for her work on employers’ liability claims that arise from accidents at work, particularly at construction sites. Telford-based Debbie Humphries is recommended for her representation of clients who have sustained life-changing injuries. Phillip Roberts is at the Hereford office, and has particular experience in areas such as accident at work cases and loss of limbs claims. Associate Karen Clarke is another notable member of the practice’.
Chambers UK 2025 rank the department in Band 1 and states ‘The firm is particularly experienced in acting for clients with spinal and cerebral injuries. Also skilled in handling military cases, and works alongside clinical negligence and Court of Protection teams to fully support clients.’
Strengths
“The team are always friendly and nothing is a problem for them.”
“All communication was appropriately fast and always put into suitable non-legal layman terms.”
“It is easy to get in contact with the team and they are always open to discussing the complexities of each case. The service they provide to their clients is excellent.”
Notable practitioners
Dawn Humphries handles a wide range of orthopaedic and spinal injury claims. She is active on an array of personal injury cases, including those relating to workplace accidents and RTAs.
“Dawn is very highly regarded, clients love her and she’s very down to earth.”
“Dawn is empathetic and sympathetic but very calmly assertive when it came to pushing back onto defence.”
Debbie Humphries is highlighted for her experience in handling a full range of severe injury matters, including motor incidents and accidents at work.
“Debbie is a calm, unflappable presence on some of the most complex cases and is an expert on brain injury work.”
This useful booklet helps explain what brain injuries are and how everyone is affected differently.
Receiving immediate expert legal advice has many advantages. Speaking to one our Brain Injury Solicitors means we can arrange provisions for additional medical expertise, second opinions, and supplementary healthcare services, all without placing additional pressure on you or your relatives and loved ones.
We act urgently to deal with the most pressing needs for healthcare support. Immediate well being for the injured party is, of course, the most crucial priority. Our Brain Injury Lawyers will also best advise you or your family members on the long-term options surrounding rehabilitation, ongoing care plans, and financial compensation.
Over the years, our expertise in brain injury cases has helped many families manage and overcome the variety of challenges faced. Not only do we focus on financial compensation for brain injury, but, with our partners, we help create ongoing support packages that deliver home environments and supportive care most conducive with rehabilitation, improving quality of life.
The Brain Injury Solicitors at Lanyon Bowdler have years of experience in claiming compensation for people following serious traumatic brain injury or brain injury caused by medical negligence. We offer friendly, compassionate, professional legal expertise and client-focused advice throughout this challenging time.
Lanyon Bowdler is a nationally recognised leader in Brain Injury Claims.
After suffering a serious injury such as those involving the brain, it is understandable that receiving compensation may not always be the first thought. Ensuring the injured person receives medical attention and has begun recovery in the best possible way should always be a priority.
However, there are many ways in which a brain injury affects the life of sufferers, and making a claim for compensation for a brain injury is often necessary to make all the right care and provisions are in place.
The first step to ensure a successful brain injury claim is to prove the negligence of a third party, and the connection between their negligent actions and your injuries.
This is also the time to receive expert medical assessment, which will be crucial to calculate the amount of compensation you could receive for your brain injury. This calculation will also include any expenses and losses you have incurred as a result of the injury, such as:
Your solicitor will then take the outcome of this assessment and begin negotiating a compensation payout with the other party. You may not need to go to court: cases can often be settled between parties without having to appear in front of a judge. However, if the negotiations were to break down, you can be sure that the Brain Injury Solicitors at Lanyon Bowdler will be by your side to protect your interests in a court case.
If the injury has been caused by the negligence of another individual or organisation, then it will be possible to make a Brain Injury Claim for compensation.
Making a Brain Injury Claim will provide financial compensation that can help you pay for rehabilitation costs and medical fees, along with compensating you for loss of earnings, both during initial treatment and recuperation periods, but that also covers loss of future earnings depending on your exact circumstances.
The severity of the injury to the brain could mean ongoing care is required to provide a good quality of life, as well as adaptations and modifications to the home and/or modes of transport. The level of financial compensation a person receives for brain injury will vary greatly depending on many variables.
More than a million people visit a hospital with a brain or head injury every year – and about 135,000 of those are admitted to hospital due to the severity of their injury. Of those admitted to hospital, many thousands will be able to claim compensation because their injuries will have been caused by the negligence of someone else.
Unfortunately, brain injury can also be sustained in hospital due to problems that arise during surgery or with medical care. Problems can occur during the birth of a child where the brain is starved of oxygen. Anaesthesia negligence can also result in damage to the brain.
Close friends or family of the person affected by brain injury often bring the case for a Brain Injury Compensation Claim on behalf of their injured friend or relative. Sometimes the person who has suffered damage to the brain will be unable to act on their own behalf.
It is often family or close friends that go on to act as carers where the victim has complex care needs and requires support in the home and with daily life. It is often the case that people close to the injured person must also make significant compromises to their own lives, especially where ongoing care or home modifications are required.
If you are unsure whether your exact circumstances entitle you to make a Brain Injury Claim, we are on hand to talk through your case and advise you on the best course of action. Call us to talk to an experienced Brain Injury Solicitor today.
We can help.
Making a Brain Injury Claim for compensation is understandably not the principal priority for you or family members in the immediate days following the injury, but time limits do apply to compensation claims for injury. Broadly speaking, adults must bring a compensation claim within three years of the occurrence of the injury. This means the claim form must have been submitted to the county court or high court within the three year period. Where a child has been affected by an injury to the brain, they can make a Brain Injury Claim for compensation for up to three years after their 18th Birthday.
With Brain Injury Claims, in particular, there may be grounds to bring a claim after the usual time limits have passed. Standard time restriction can, in some cases, be deemed to have not even started if the victim lacks the ‘mental capacity’ to bring a claim at the time they had the accident or sustained the injury.
Our team will advise you on your case expertly and address any concerns you may have about time limits. Our priority will be to protect your rights, protect your future and to bring a successful conclusion to your claim.
The brain is the most complex and brilliant organ in the human body. While everyone has a brain, no two brains work exactly the same. Similarly, an injury to the brain will affect different people differently. A brain injury can lead to a myriad of cognitive, behavioural and physical symptoms which range from mild symptoms that resolve relatively quickly to severe symptoms that can persist indefinitely. Not only will the symptoms differ, but the impact of those symptoms can vary from person to person based on their age, lifestyle and personality. For instance, a serious brain injury will affect a teenager very differently to a pensioner
The two main causes of brain injury are oxygen starvation and traumatic brain injury. Both are classified as ‘acquired brain injury’, the collective term for any type of brain injury that occurs after birth
Traumatic Brain injury is most commonly caused by road traffic accidents, assaults, falls and accidents at home and in the workplace
There are many other forms of acquired brain injury such as:
The amount of compensation paid out for general damages relating to brain injury are published in the ‘Judicial College Guidelines’. General damages seek to compensate for those wounds and losses that cannot be physically calculated. The core constituents of general damages in Brain Injury Claims are pain, suffering and loss of amenity (PSLA).
Any non-fault injured party is entitled to recover compensation for pain, suffering and loss experienced due to the result of an accident. The PSLA element of the final compensation settlement figure is meant to encompass all pain and suffering (past, present, and future physical and psychiatric symptoms) that may be reasonably expected in respect of the injury.
The bullet points below reflect the current guidelines on compensation settlement amounts for pain and suffering caused by brain injury.
Used Lanyon Bowdler for a personal injury claim regarding a trip in a supermarket. I found the service very helpful and would use again.
From the first contact, the team at Lanyon Bowdler gave a fast & efficient service. They were very friendly & gave me the confidence that I had found the right solicitors. The advice given & the fast responses were beyond my expectations. The matter was resolved in no time at all.
It is a pleasure to act as a case manager for clients represented by the personal injury team at Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors. Lanyon Bowdler PI team are proactive and truly client centred. They understand the clients they represent and work tirelessly to achieve the best they can for them. Through collaborative working we have been able to achieve the best outcomes possible for our clients.
As a case manager I work closely with litigation teams to ensure our clients get the expertise, support and care they need to bring them back to as close to their life pre-injury as possible. This is very often not an easy journey, and balancing the desires of the client to live their best life with collating and presenting the facts of how that life is altered, can be very challenging. Having worked alongside Lanyon Bowdler’s team for many years, I have noted it is always easier to strike this balance, when they are involved.
Having worked with a succession of personal injury specialists at Lanyon Bowdler over the years, I have seen at first hand the top-flight legal expertise that they bring to every case and the commitment to obtaining the absolutely best result for every client. Equally importantly, I am struck by the compassion, empathy and humanity with which every client is treated. They go above and beyond to ensure their clients receive the very best representation.
The team at Lanyon Bowdler show an exceptional knowledge and understanding of their client’s needs, not just in terms of the claim that they lead, but also the emotional and personal experiences that they will have on that journey.
Lanyon Bowdler provide seamless ongoing emotional support, information and guidance to their clients over what may be many years of a PI claim. This significantly helps mitigate the “stress” of a claim for their clients, and in my medicolegal experience puts them way ahead of other legal firms.
Contacted Lanyon Bowdler six months after an injury at work. They offered me several of their services, including no win no fee which I ended up choosing. The solicitor was extremely helpful, was always keeping me updated when there was news and answered promptly when asked for any updates or when I asked any questions. I was very happy with the final settlement and the advice I received proved to be the best for my case. I felt like the extra bit of care was extended to give me a good idea of the options I had to choose from which really helped to inform any decision.
From my initial approach to the final positive outcome I felt my solicitor was expending all his energy to win the case. I was kept informed throughout and was given straightforward advice on how to proceed. The end result was an acceptable outcome and the pay-out was prompt.
Very friendly and quick to respond, highly recommend for anyone looking for legal advice.
I couldn’t be happier with the service I have received over the past six years. I would highly recommend Lanyon Bowdler for legal requirements.
Since dealing with Lanyon Bowdler they have been diligent, efficient and at all times very helpful along with being structured in dealing with matters, fees and clarity on all levels. Thank you.
I was clearly informed of progress step by step. The service you provided was very good.
All work carried out effectively and efficiently.
An excellent service with solicitors that you can talk to and who give you a clear understanding of all necessary legal implications and interpretations.
From start to finish we had excellent service. Friendly, approachable and professional.
Very clear, concise advice and guidance, easy to understand.
Good service provided throughout with clear communication throughout with all options explored.
I can thoroughly recommend the highly professional and supportive service received over the last few months.
Responsive, supportive, approachable, clear and empathetic.
Professional and prompt communication. Supportive and client focused.
Whenever I have had need to contact Lanyon Bowdler I have always received a fast, concise and friendly response.
Definitely would use Lanyon Bowdler again if I need the use of a solicitor.
Smooth and efficient service from very professional firm.
We were particularly impressed with the quality of work, the speed and excellent communication.
Very friendly and approachable. Very good advice
Great Service; Lanyon Bowdler were excellent from the outset. Straightforward and easy process. I just sat back and waited.
Everything has been professional, efficient and courteous throughout and we are very pleased, both with the service and with the eventual outcome of our case. Everything was first class and exceeded our expectations. Thank you again for providing such splendid service. It is really appreciated.
Our Brain Injury Solicitors at Lanyon Bowdler have used their expertise to get results for clients for decades, often obtaining higher amounts of compensation than other firms. We have a deep understanding of these injuries and the effect they can have on your life.
Some of the most notable cases of brain injuries we were involved in include:
Our team is featured in the list of approved solicitors by Headway, and is accredited by APIL as a specialist team of Brain Injury Solicitors. We have a proven track record of obtaining results for our clients that allow them to get their life back on track, and ensure their needs are met for the future. In order to facilitate this, we often seek interim payment throughout the claim process, so that your losses and expenses can have a less severe impact on your day-to-day life.
Choosing Lanyon Bowdler to support you at this difficult time in making your Brain Injury Claim guarantees you access the best legal expertise and a compassionate team to support you along the road to the best recovery possible.
We are committed to providing a professional and transparent service. We can often provide a ‘No Win No Fee’ arrangement, also known as a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA).
When we offer a ‘no win, no fee’ service, it means that in the unlikely event your claim proves unsuccessful, there is no financial liability on your part to cover fees for the services we have already provided.
When you talk to a Brain Injury Solicitor at Lanyon Bowdler, we will listen carefully to you and swiftly review all the facts in order to establish whether your claim can be handled on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis. This means we can progress with the Brain Injury Claim with no financial responsibilities and no uncertainties for the victim or their relatives.
If you or a loved on are unfortunately affected by traumatic brain injury, we understand the consequences, and the level of support you may need. We have helped countless people through similr challenges over the years. If the incident that casued the injury, happended becuase of the actions or negligence of a third-party, then you are rightly entitled to make a Brain Injury Claim.
By choosing Lanyon Bowdler as your legal support and representation, you choose specialist Brain Injury Solicitors who recognise, appreciate and understand your suffering and your ongoing needs. Toegther, we will tirelessly to get you the right support and care, and to win the the maximum financial settlement you deserve. Our network of partner are also part of your team to help with medical care, psychological counselling, rehabilitation, home-care, home adaptions and more.
We’re with you for the journey ahead.
Our expert Brain Injury Solicitors are amongst the leading in speculists in handling and winning catastophic brain injury claims anywhere in England & Wales. We will strive to secrure you the best outcome and help make it possible for you and your family to be comfortable in life and to look forward. We have helped countless people through the darkest of times. We are committed to providing exceptional levels of client care and will work closely and considerately with you to help find the best outcomes and help to get life back on track.
With offices in Shrewsbury, Bromyard, Conwy, Hereford, Ludlow, Oswestry, and Telford, we act for clients throughout Shropshire, Herefordshire, Mid and North Wales. Our specialists regularly act forpeople right across the Midlands, and our track record and expertise makes us the leading firm of Brain Injury Solicitors for Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Worcester. As a leading full-service law firm in Wales and Shropshire, with some of the country’s most experienced Serioius Injury Lawyers, we can represent you wherever you live in England or Wales.
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