The Team
AMIN ULLAH
Specialist Areas:
- Head injury
- Spinal cord injury
Amin is the Principal Solicitor with over 15 years experience in personal injury work. After leaving the Coventry School of Performing Arts Amin read Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1990. Having worked in many prominent legal firms in West Yorkshire, in 1993 he set up the Applebys office in Bradford.
He has over the years developed a specialism in helping clients who have unfortunately sustained serious head injuries or spinal cord injuries recovering for them substantial compensation thus helping them to rebuild their life. For example in respect of one client who had sustained a serious head injury he recovered a sum of £1.5 million pounds. He believes that whilst any amount of compensation cannot bring back the health once enjoyed, it can help to ease the pain by for example making sure that the accommodation is suited to their requirements, and they receive prompt help from suitable experts and professionals.
Amin believes client care is of the utmost importance and the client is never wrong. He recalls a colleague once said to him that "There is only one boss. The client. And he can fire everybody in the firm from the boss on down simply by spending his money elsewhere."
GRAHAM BALMFORTH
Specialist Areas:
- Road Traffic Accidents
- Slips and Trips
- Accidents at Work
- Criminal Injuries Claims
- Civil Litigation
- Credit Hire and Uninsured Loss Recovery
After Leaving the Royal Horse Artillery in the mid 1990s Graham began reading Law and Finance at University, he qualified as a Barrister in 1997 and following a brief period of Independent advocacy in London, he joined a specialist Personal Injury Firm in Yorkshire. He worked on a varied caseload of personal injury matters recovering many millions of pounds in compensation for his clients. He moved to Applebys in 2008 and now heads up the Bradford Personal Injury Unit.
He is married and spends his spare time restoring classic cars and travelling. Graham is currently based in our Bradford Office.
MARGARET HARVEY
Specialist Areas:
- Mis selling of personal protection insurance
- Unenforceable Loans
- Consumer litigation
- Travel Claims
- Personal Injury, particularly accidents at work
- Medical Negligence
Margaret is a Solicitor in the Huddersfield Office. She specializes in commercial law and civil litigation, especially cases where credit agreements are in dispute.
Margaret trained as a lawyer in Zimbabwe where she dealt with many different aspects of law from conveyancing and probate to civil litigation and personal injury. Margaret's legal career started in 1975 when she worked for the Ministry of Justice. In addition she has worked for two private practices in Harare. Margaret has both an LLB and an LLM from the University of South Africa.
Margaret is now leading the firm's efforts in challenging the mis-selling of personal protection insurance and unenforceable loans. In addition, Margaret is building a practice in the emerging area of travel claims.
In addition to this Margaret also deals with personal injury and clinical negligence matters, with a particular interest in litigation arising out of accidents at work. Margaret lives in Derbyshire with her three children and young grandson.
