Miss Bassinder has specific experience in personal injury claims arising out of:

• Road traffic accidents, particularly with regard to LVI and allegations of fraud/fundamental dishonesty and phantom passenger(s);
• Credit hire, including complex arguments in respect of enforceability;
• Workplace accidents, with an interest in claims relating to working from height, electrocution and machinery;
• Alleged breaches of the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957/1984, particularly against schools, hospitals and supermarkets;
• Accidents on public highways;

Miss Bassinder is a civil practitioner specialising in personal injury and housing disrepair, with particular strength in written advocacy, pleadings, and strategic advisory work.

Regularly instructed in personal injury matters, including road traffic accidents and employer’s and public liability claims, advising on liability, quantum and settlement strategy, including at an early stage of proceedings.

Acts in housing disrepair claims, including those brought under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, and Defective Premises Act 1972.

Brings extensive experience in drafting Particulars of Claim, Replies, Schedules of Loss, and Part 35 questions, particularly in complex or document-heavy matters.

Recognised for an approachable, practical and commercially-minded style, with a consistently swift turnaround of written work.

Notable Cases 

Longhurst & Longhurst v Thirteen Housing Group Limited (2025, Middlesbrough County Court) – Appeal

Successful appeal against the allocation of a housing disrepair claim to the small claims track. The Circuit Judge held that the first-instance Judge had erred in the application of the allocation principles, exercised discretion too broadly, and wrongly declined to make a ‘Birmingham v Lee’ costs order. The claim was re-allocated to the fast track. All three grounds of appeal were upheld.