Frances McCarthy is managing partner of Pattinson & Brewer where she heads up the personal injury department. She is the past president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and is a former member of the Civil Justice Council.

She is qualified CEDR mediator and jointly with Tim Wallis mediated various costs issues at the request of the Civil Justice Council, including the levels of success fees to be claimed in personal injury cases. She helped to set up Trust Mediation with Tim Wallis, Sir Henry Brook and others.

She is a senior fellow of APIL and was a member of Lord Woolf’s working party which developed the personal injury pre-action protocols... view full biography

APIL Past President, Director of Switalskis Solicitors Ltd

John McQuater qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and is a Director of Personal Injury, and member of the Complex Injury Team, at Switalskis Solicitors.

He is a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme (as well as being an assessor for that scheme).  He had, whilst the scheme was operation, Catastrophic Injury Accreditation from the Law Society... view full biography