Mr Amandeep DHILLON

Expertise

Amandeep focuses on high value and complex cases of clinical negligence, serious injury and commercial litigation. He is also a strong advocate and negotiator.

Career History

Amandeep was previously a partner at Irwin Mitchell (youngest partner). He handled globally litigated cases such as the Costa Concordia disaster and appeared multiple times on international and national television. He has also dealt with a number of fatalities and complex cases, including challenging constitutions of sovereign nations.

His notable achievements also include given expertise in maritime law, assisted the government in drafting legislation around minimum insurance requirements for maritime vessels.

Education & Qualifications

Amandeep graduated with a law degree, LLB (Honours) from the University of Birmingham. Higher rights of audience (civil).

Awards, Publications, and Media

Amandeep has multiple Legal 500 rankings as a “great team player and strategic thinker”, “a genuinely creative lawyer who thinks outside the box”, “an excellent leader who achieves outstanding results”, and as “bringing a high degree of focus and strategic litigation”, and Chambers Directory as “very astute”.

Amandeep has regularly appeared on the BBC, ITV, and Sky News, as well as in national print and online media. His notable press appearances and lead cases include:

• Securing a six-figure settlement totalling £275,000 for 28 victims of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated German eggs at the Real China restaurant in Eastleigh, Hampshire, in a case that involved collaboration with Public Health England and contributed to a wider national food safety investigation (BBC)
• Providing expert public health commentary on ITV News during the 2014 salmonella outbreak at Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital, which affected at least 23 people across eight wards and was ultimately linked to three deaths, calling for a full investigation into the cause of infection (ITV News)
• Acting as lead advocate for a teenager who contracted severe salmonella food poisoning on a Nile cruise holiday, securing a six-figure compensation payout against the tour operator after the illness caused prolonged, debilitating symptoms (Sky News)
• Representing cruise ship passengers who launched legal action after a mass vomiting bug outbreak on board, highlighting failures in hygiene standards and food safety at sea (Sky News)
• Leading a group action on behalf of over 40 holidaymakers struck down with gastric illness at the Los Gigantes Hotel in Tenerife, achieving settlements for all clients after TUI UK Ltd denied liability throughout. The case included John Fulstow, 74, from Weston-super-Mare, who described the hotel’s conditions as “appalling” (Weston Mercury)
• Representing a Dunfermline woman and her mother who suffered such severe illness, bed bug bites, and injuries at the Smartline Colour Beach Hotel in Egypt that they had to be airlifted home, after a two-week holiday extended into a nine-week ordeal involving multiple hospitalisations (Dunfermline Press)
• Acting for a group of 11 British holidaymakers from Kent who sued the five-star Jaz Aquamarine hotel in Hurghada, Egypt, after contracting gastric illness during a trip to celebrate birthdays and a wedding anniversary — part of a wider pattern of outbreaks at the hotel where Irwin Mitchell successfully concluded claims for 125 people from an earlier 2017 outbreak (Daily Mail)
• Representing the family of seven-year-old Luay Mohammad from Birmingham, who developed severe salmonella poisoning at the Tia Heights resort in Hurghada, Egypt. His condition deteriorated after returning to the UK, leading to high fever, hallucinations, sepsis, seizures, and a stroke that left him in intensive care for nearly three weeks at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (Birmingham Mail)
• Representing 12 British passengers and crew who suffered significant psychological injuries in the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise disaster off the Italian coast, one of the deadliest maritime incidents in modern European history, in which 32 people lost their lives (The Telegraph)

Personal

Committed to diversity and inclusion. Amandeep has implemented programmes in law firms and private industry that improved representation and equality across the board, winning awards for the same.