Diane Parker
Partner and head of personal injury – heading a team of 35 fee earners including associate solicitors, assistant solicitors, legal executives, trainees and paralegals. Specialises in personal injury work and employment law, handling a range of matters including employers’ liability and industrial disease. Recently settled two Legionnaires disease claims on behalf of holiday makers under the Package Tour Regulations and an unusual disease claim on behalf of a pet shop worker who contracted Pulmonary Fibrosing Alveolitis as a result of exposure to bird dander. Cited cases include Fox v Cementation Piling Limited [2011] EWCA Civ 790 and Spowart v Nottinghamshire County Council [2006] Lawtel · Switalskis Solicitors
About
Partner and head of personal injury at Switalskis Solicitors in England, specialising in personal injury and employment law. She leads a team of 35 fee earners and handles employers' liability and industrial disease claims, including recent settlements of Legionnaires' disease claims under the Package Tour Regulations and a pulmonary fibrosing alveolitis claim; cited cases include Fox v Cementation Piling Limited [2011] EWCA Civ 790 and Spowart v Nottinghamshire County Council [2006] Lawtel.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Ysgol Dinas Bran
- Trent Polytechnic
- Chester College of Law, 1998 LLB 2:1
- 1989 LSF
- Nottingham Trent University (MBA in Legal Practice)