Mr Stephen Farnfield is a specialist Financial Planner working with vulnerable individuals and their support teams. He has been an expert to the court for the last 10 years and has worked in financial services since 2000. He has acted as an expert witness on hundreds of cases, providing expert reports and commentary on Pension Loss, Loss of Income, Accommodation (Post RvJ), Cost of Financial Advice, Periodical Payments and the financial structure of damages awards.

With a significant amount of experience in dealing with a vast array of UK based pension schemes, Stephen is an expert that you can trust to deliver a detailed and accurate loss calculation.  Stephen has particular experience dealing with all forms of the government funded Defined Benefit Pension Schemes: Fire fighter (Stephen was involved in a group action for the Grenfell Firefighters), Police, Armed Forces, Local Authority, Civil Service, Teachers and NHS.

Stephen has a particular interest in and experience of working on Cerebral Palsy Cases.

He has extensive experience in cases related to:

• Pension Loss – adults and minors
• Loss of Earnings
• Loss of Income Reports
• Accommodation (Post RvJ)
• Cost of Financial Advice
• Periodical Payments/ PPO/ Form of Award Reports
• Settlement Assessment Reports
• Fatal Accidents; Loss of Dependency
• Lost Years claims
• Financial modelling/planning
• Investment performance management
• Wealth management
• Cashflow Analysis for Court approval

Stephen offers a free initial viability check service, so that solicitors can talk through a case on the phone or video call to then confidently move forwards with the right approach. Please enquire for more information.

He has given evidence in court on several occasions and is comfortable and confident under questioning.

Stephen has a report turnaround time of 4 weeks.