Claire Collinson Legal is a specialist, high quality solicitors’ practice. We deal solely with claims and complaints about financial products and services, insurance and professional negligence.

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Claire Collinson Legal is committed to providing high quality advice, access to justice and reasonableness and certainty of costs.

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Claire Collinson Legal is a compact firm based on maintaining a reputation for excellence. Our clients speak highly of us and we are recommended in the leading legal sector ranking publications.

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Claire Collinson Legal works with clients from numerous sectors, throughout England and Wales, from our base in Northumberland.

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Our Services

Our reputation

We have been recommended in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 since 2013. We are the sole recommended solicitor for Broker Network members throughout England and Wales (a network of over 600 independent insurance brokers).

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Our clients

Our clients include private individuals, numerous owner managed businesses, through to large corporate concerns. Our clients span numerous sectors including care homes, high net worth individuals, property developers, the leisure industry and educational organisations.

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Our ethos

The values underpinning Claire Collinson Legal are high quality advice, access to justice and reasonableness and certainty of costs. Each client and each case is treated individually; our claims are not processed. Advice is tailored specifically for each case.

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Our pricing

We offer flexible funding options, discussed and agreed in advance.  Our charges will always represent the value of work done and be proportionate to the amount claimed.

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In claire's words

We provide a bespoke service from highly qualified and experienced solicitors yet due to our structure we are able to offer exceptionally reasonable rates and flexible funding options.

In our specialist areas, we have a national reputation, built on recommendations from past and existing clients

Case Studies

Insurance Disputes

Our client, a business owner in the Midlands, suffered a severe fire at their premises. The insurer alleged that the “waste warranty” had been breached because wood shavings may not have been swept up, and alleged fraud on the basis that (they said) our client had given a different version of events immediately after the fire than later. We present

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Case Studies

Interest Rate Hedging Disputes

We represented a London based property owner who had been sold a complex interest rate swap in conjunction with a refinance. The swap restricted the business to the extent that opportunities to develop the business could not be taken up. Prior to commencement of the FCA Review into hedging products, proceedings were issued then stayed to allow the

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Investment and Other Financial Cases

We represented a severely disabled young lady whose personal injury damages had been invested on an advisory basis by a high street bank. The portfolio of investments was highly geared in equities and in a situation where regular income withdrawals were required, the value of the portfolio fell severely. We alleged negligence in construction of the

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Professional Negligence

We pursued a claim against an insurance broker who had failed to notify an insurer of our client’s change of address which led to the declinature of a fire claim. Liability was denied and we pursued a complaint to the FOS, recovering substantial compensation for our client.

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News

Adams v Carey Pensions – an alternative perspective / May 29th, 2020

After more than a two year delay, judgment was handed down recently in a litigated claim against Carey Pensions, a SIPP provider, in Adams v Carey Pensions [HC-2017-000084]. In that case, after being introduced to Carey Pensions by an unregulated introduced, based in Spain, a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) was set up for Mr Adams and the majority of his pension savings were invested in a non-standard and objectively high risk investment in Storepods. That […]

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Mis-sold pension investments: Dunas Beach and Llana Beach, Cape Verde / February 7th, 2020

Over the last decade many hundreds of UK pension savers have been persuaded to transfer safe, UK-regulated pension funds into unregulated, overseas investments which are now either worthless or extremely difficult to access. In this article we focus on The Resort Group investments in the Cape Verde islands. The Resort Group PLC, a Gibraltar registered company, offered investment opportunities in “stunning new developments”, including Llana Beach Hotel and Dunas Beach Resort, through a network of […]

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Launch of Pension Legal Solutions / December 6th, 2018

Claire Collinson Legal have launched a new and unique scheme called Pensions Legal Solutions aimed at providing specialist legal advice and representation at an affordable cost for consumers who have been affected by the proliferation of poor advice and lack of consumer protection in the pensions sector leading to the loss of valuable pension benefits for individuals built up over many years. Many people have valid claims or complaints to make but working out who […]

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Rankings and Awards / December 6th, 2018

We are proud to announce that Claire Collinson Legal has again been recognised as a leading firm for Dispute Resolution by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. Claire Collinson has been shortlisted, along with only 7 other individual solicitors nationwide, as the UK Dispute Resolution solicitor of the year 2019 in the Legal 500 awards. The winner will be announced in January 2019. The shortlists and award winners are based solely on the in-depth […]

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