SC Law was established specifically to help people who have suffered an injury, from minor through to the most serious and catastrophic. Accident victims are often bullied by their own motor or home insurers to use their own “panel” firm, when in fact under English law they have the complete freedom to use any solicitor of their choice. An accident victim should carefully chose the solicitor they want to represent them and if you not happy with your current solicitor it is usually very easy to have your case transferred to the solicitor/law firm of your own choice.
Our clients choose us and in particular, Saffora Choudri and Ian Austen-Jones, because they believe in our lawyers abilities to meet or exceed their expectations of service and expertise in pursuing their claims.
Saffora Choudri
Saffora is a qualified senior Solicitor and has over 14 years specialist experience in dealing with Claimant personal injury cases. She is also a member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Personal Injury Panel, one of the highest accredited personal injury panels. She is also a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. With her wealth of experience, Saffora has successfully dealt with thousands of cases and eased the lives of many claimants who have been injured. She is also experienced in dealing with catastrophic cases, including victims from the July 7th London terrorist bombings.
Amongst the many cases Saffora has dealt with, include the high profile case against the Ministry of Defence in the Mount McKinley expedition in Alaska involving a horrific fatality and other very seriously injured climbers. She also recently negotiated settlement of a claim involving an avid hand glider who sustained serious leg injuries for almost half a million.
Saffora has extensive experience in dealing with complex liability claims against government organisations, workplace and construction site accidents, claims involving buses and fatal accidents, including acting for multiple group claimants. She also has extensive experience in leisure and sporting accidents and accidents involving children. One of her specialisms is lower limb amputations.
Saffora also speaks Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi and is well known innovative and popular lawyer amongst the Asian community.
Ian Austen-Jones
Ian is a qualified senior Solicitor and a Consultant to SC Law with over 20 years specialist experience in dealing with personal injury cases. He is also a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
The legal knowledge and technical skills that Ian brings to personal injury claims ensures an extremely high rate of success. Ian has extensive experience in dealing with many types of accidents, including catastrophic and brain injury cases and claims involving multiple claimants, such as the tragic M25 National Express coach crash in 2007 killing two passengers and seriously injuring many other passengers, some of whose injuries were catastrophic. He is also experienced in dealing with work related industrial disease claims. Ian recently settled a complex brain injury case for £1.1 million where the defendant argued the claimant was partly at fault.
Having also worked in the Defendant industry, Ian has the added advantage of knowing how an opponent is likely to respond to a claim and this wealth of experience keeps Ian steps ahead of his opponents both inside and outside the Courtroom.
Pritee Manji
Pritee is a qualified Solicitor and has been at SC Law for four years.
She is head of the Road Traffic Department and runs cases quickly and efficiently through the government’s new claims process. She also handles very serious injury cases caused by motor accidents, including amputations.
Pritee has a proven track record of winning difficult tripping and slipping cases against local authorities and at work.
Jasbir Virdee
Jas is a qualified Solicitor with over seven years experience and specialises in workplace accidents and very serious brain injury and amputation cases, securing six figure settlements.
He often deals with complex and disputed liability accidents and has an excellent success rate of winning even the most challenging cases. Jas is also experienced in handling sporting and leisure accidents and dog bite cases.
He recently won a heavily disputed case where a claimant slipped on a drink can at a train station and the case went all the way to full blown trial.
Althea Francis
Althea joined the firm as a Paralegal and has many years of personal injury experience through her former role as an investigator at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. She was previously also a qualified nurse and her medical knowledge is invaluable to her work as a legal advisor.
Tim Self
Tim is the firm’s Practice Director and manages the firm’s development, finances and IT requirements.
