Injury lawyer details for Neil Sugarman

About Neil Sugarman

Neil qualified as a solicitor in 1981. Since that time he has practised almost exclusively in the field of personal injury litigation. He has been the managing partner of GLP Solicitors of Bury, Greater Manchester since 1999. Neil has experience of all types of personal injury work.

He is a past member of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel. In addition, he is an APIL Fellow and Executive Committee member, a member of Headway, a former APIL delegate to the Bodily Injury Claims Management Association, and has been involved closely in APIL’s work in the field of rehabilitation.  Neil is also a past president of APIL. 

He has developed a special interest in the presentation of claims to the CICB and CICA on behalf of shaken babies who have suffered catastrophic brain damage. In 2009 he represented a client who is understood to have received the highest award ever made under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. He received a commendation for this work in the UNICEF Child Rights Lawyer of the Year Awards 2001.

Neil attends as an APIL delegate to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Stakeholder and Equality Forum. A contributor to a major legal text on the handling of serious personal injury claims, Neil is also an updating author to Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service. He has lectured widely to a variety of groups on the topic of personal injury and had many academic articles published Neil is an appointed Tribunal Judge to the First Tier Tribunal of the Social Entitlement Chamber.