Hannah Brookfield

Year called: 2011

Email Hannah Brookfield

Education & Qualifications

Nottingham Law School 2010 – 2011

Bar Professional Training Course – Very Competent

 

The University of Liverpool 2007 – 2010

LLB Hons – First Class

 

King George V College 2005 – 2007

A Levels – Law (A) History (A) Psychology (A)

Area of Expertise

Miss Brookfield has extensive experience in all areas of personal injury litigation including high value claims.

She conducts work on both the fast track and the multi-track on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants.

Miss Brookfield has particular experience in the following areas:

Road Traffic Cases – including fraud, low velocity impacts and credit hire.

Serious and Catastrophic Injury

Public Liability Cases

Employer’s Liability Cases

Occupier’s Liability Cases

Costs Litigation

Miss Brookfield is experienced in representing parties at all stages of litigation from pre issue to trial.

Miss Brookfield offers a fast, high quality and reliable service. She ensures that all paperwork is returned promptly and ordinarily within a matter of days.

Miss Brookfield drafts pleadings and advices in relation to both liability and quantum including detailed Schedules of Loss. She has extensive experience of advising and drafting in cases involving serious and fatal accidents.

She provides practical and robust advice in light of the cogency of the evidence and the inherent risks of litigation and any advice that Ms Brookfield provides also takes account of the wider commercial implications of a case.

Awards

Sweet and Maxwell Prize for the best overall assessment performance across years 2 and 3 of University (top of the year)

Edwards Abrams Doherty Prize for the best examination performance in Employment Law

Berrymans Lace Mawer Prize for the best assessment performance by a second year student

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP Prize for the best examination performance in Contract Law

Gossage Scholarship in recognition of academic performance spanning 2007 – 2008

Higher Education Student Volunteering Award

Appointments

Appointment as Deputy District Judge on the Northern Circuit: October 2022

Clerked by

Neil McHugh at Neil.McHugh@7HS.co.uk

Or alternatively email Clerks@7HS.co.uk

Practice Overview

Miss Brookfield has extensive experience in all areas of personal injury litigation including high value claims.

She conducts work on both the fast track and the multi-track on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants.

Miss Brookfield has particular experience in the following areas:

Road Traffic Cases – including fraud, low velocity impacts and credit hire.

Serious and Catastrophic Injury

Public Liability Cases

Employer’s Liability Cases

Occupier’s Liability Cases

Costs Litigation

Miss Brookfield is experienced in representing parties at all stages of litigation from pre issue to trial.

Miss Brookfield offers a fast, high quality and reliable service. She ensures that all paperwork is returned promptly and ordinarily within a matter of days.

Miss Brookfield drafts pleadings and advices in relation to both liability and quantum including detailed Schedules of Loss. She has extensive experience of advising and drafting in cases involving serious and fatal accidents.

She provides practical and robust advice in light of the cogency of the evidence and the inherent risks of litigation and any advice that Ms Brookfield provides also takes account of the wider commercial implications of a case.

Notable/Recent Cases

  • Acted for the applicant in judicially reviewing the decision of a coroner where, at an inquest, the employer was found to have exposed the deceased to chemicals which caused his death. Led by leading counsel. 
  • Advised an interested person in relation to its response and position to an application for judicial review arising from a death in a care home.
  • Acted for a hospital in relation to the death of a newborn baby in its maternity ward.
  • Acted for the insurers of a driver in relation to a road traffic collision. The case was a rare instance where the coroner had to consider a conclusion of unlawful killing, because of the standard of driving of one of the vehicles.
  • Acted for the healthcare provider in relation to the death of an inmate in prison. The prisoner had committed suicide, and issues included addressing the mental health risk assessments and treatment provided to the prisoner. 
  • Acted for the employee of a specialist children’s cot supply company in an inquest arising from the death of a disabled toddler. Issues around gross negligence manslaughter and tampering with evidence were addressed at the inquest. 
  • Acted for the owner of a farm at an inquest arising from a death on the farmyard.
  • Acted for the owners of a care home in relation to the death of a resident following a fall at the care home. Issues in relation to neglect, risk assessments and adequate care aids being in place were addressed. 
  • In module one, acted as part of the team advising one of the Core Participants at the Covid Inquiry.
  • Was part of the team assisting on a discovery and disclosure exercise in a billion pound High Court action concerning a foreign tax law claim.