Meet the team
Philippa Tuckman
Philippa practises in the fields of military and civilian clinical negligence and personal injury, and public law. Her persistence and ingenuity are effective in developing new approaches in these developing and exciting areas.
After training with the well-known Oxford firm, Henmans, Philippa qualified in 1991 and moved to the East End leader, T.V.Edwards. After developing a strong family law practice, including domestic violence, child protection and abduction and adoption, she moved to the personal injury and clinical negligence department in 1996. In 2004 she qualified as a mediator and spent two years both mediating and training. She joined Bolt Burdon Kemp in December 2006.
Philippa’s priority has always been the defence of the individual’s rights, fuelled by a sense of justice and social responsibility. Whilst at T.V.Edwards she recovered damages totalling several millions of pounds (including £3.3m. for a child who had suffered a brain injury at birth) on behalf of clients injured through the negligence of doctors, employers and public authorities, as well representing victims of serious crime claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
As a mediator, Philippa has facilitated settlements in a wide range of disputes in areas including healthcare, commercial litigation and employment. She has been regularly called upon to mediate and train staff in a major (Magic Circle) international solicitors’ firm.
Since joining Bolt Burdon Kemp, Philippa has played an important role in developing the firm’s military claims department, representing clients from the Army, Navy and Air Force who have been injured in action, in training and in treatment by military and civilian bodies. She is the solicitor representing the claimants in the widely and sympathetically-reported test case brought by three Gurkhas to challenge their Ministry of Defence pensions, and is currently seeking leave to take the case to the Court of Appeal.
Reported cases:
R (Gurung, Purja and Shrestha) v Ministry of Defence [2008] EWHC 1496
R (Soper) v Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel EWHC 1496 Civ 1803
Philippa enjoys socialising, writing (so far unpublished) detective novels, singing, reading and walking.
philippatuckman@boltburdonkemp.co.uk
020 7288 4822