Frances McCarthy is managing partner of Pattinson & Brewer where she heads up the personal injury department. She is the past president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and is a former member of the Civil Justice Council.
She is qualified CEDR mediator and jointly with Tim Wallis mediated various costs issues at the request of the Civil Justice Council, including the levels of success fees to be claimed in personal injury cases. She helped to set up Trust Mediation with Tim Wallis, Sir Henry Brook and others.
She is a senior fellow of APIL and was a member of Lord Woolf’s working party which developed the personal injury pre-action protocols.
She lectures and publishes frequently and is the joint editor of ‘APIL personal injury law practice and precedents.’ She contributes to Jordan’s Civil Court Service.