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  • Sophie Birch

    Sophie Birch is a Senior Associate in the Clinical Negligence team, based in the Manchester office. Sophie has over 10 years’ experience in advising and supporting clients who have suffered serious injuries as a result of negligent medical treatment.

    Sophie is experienced in dealing with a wide range of clinical negligence cases including those involving surgical negligence, delays in diagnosis and injuries resulting in death. As well as representing her own clients, Sophie also supports the Partners in the team with high value and complex cases including those involving amputation, brain injury, birth injury and spinal injury.

  • Samantha Hind

    Samantha Hind is a Senior Associate in our Court of Protection team based from our Manchester office. Sam acts as professional deputy for clients who have sustained serious brain injuries which have impacted upon their capacity to make financial decisions for themselves.

  • Jemma Valvona

    Jemma Valvona is a Senior Associate in our Serious Injury team and is based in our Southampton office. She specialises in claims where adults have suffered traumatic brain injuries, amputations and polytrauma.

  • Kelly Knight

    Kelly Knight specialises in matters relating to the Court of Protection in relation to an individual’s property and financial affairs. She also advises in relation to personal injury trusts.

  • Jonathan Syddall

    Jonathan Syddall, a senior associate in the serious injury department, has acted in the field of serious personal injury for over 28 years.

    Jonathan joined Hugh James in January 2024, having previously been a partner at a Legal 500 Tier 1 firm, which he joined in 1995.

    Jonathan has been the lead lawyer dealing with cases involving catastrophic and serious injuries. He has acted exclusively for claimants throughout his career. He specialises in high-value claims including spinal injury, brain injury, amputations, polytrauma and fatal accidents.

  • Deborah Sleightholme

    Working alongside fellow partners in the Individual Services Division, Deborah Sleightholme’s role involves developing and leading on regional and national business development strategies, building strong and valuable relationships with professionals and charities working with seriously injured and bereaved people, and understanding and showcasing the expertise of the different individual lawyers and specialist teams at the firm.

  • Claire Tait

    Claire Tait provides specialist business partnering on all aspects of HR and Employment Law. She provides external complex employment investigations support for the private and public sector. She provides a full outsourced HR/in house Counsel support service.

  • Christine Bunting

    Christine Bunting is a Chartered Legal Executive, TEP and a Partner in the Court of Protection team at Hugh James Solicitors specialising in Property and Affairs Deputyships, the creation and management of Personal Injury Trusts and providing expert witness services to litigation lawyers. Chris was admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 1985 and have more than 30 years’ experience of working in private practice.  She is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and a member of Solicitors for the Elderly, The Professional Deputies Forum, and the London Court of Protection Users Group, having been invited to join at its inception.

  • Nina Roland

    Nina Roland is a consultant working with Hugh James’ clinical negligence department. She is in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for claimant clinical negligence, having been listed as a Leading Individual for over 10 years. Within the last year, she has recovered over £50m (capitalised) for clinical negligence claimants.

  • Jayne Bradshaw

    Jayne Bradshaw joined Hugh James in December 2021 and is responsible for overseeing our approach to relationship management and ensuring we keep our promises to our clients.

    Jayne has a wealth of experience within professional services, having worked for eight years for PwC and, prior to that, the law firms Clarke Willmott, TLT and Burges Salmon.

  • James Pearn

    James Pearn is a consultant in the commercial property team, and specialises in advising on all aspects on commercial and residential property.

  • Rachel Seddon

    Rachel Seddon is a Senior Associate Solicitor and APIL Accredited Senior Litigator. She is experienced in cases involving catastrophic injury, illness and medical negligence and is predominantly instructed in cases involving the Ministry of Defence.

  • Penni Gibbs

    Penni Gibbs is an experienced property litigator whose work spans the full range of property related disputes including easements and wayleaves, restrictive covenants, right to light, trespass and nuisance, adverse possession, vendor misrepresentation, TOLATA claims, boundary and party wall disputes, and possession claims.

  • Alison Hartley

    Alison Hartley has extensive experience of dealing with Claimant catastrophic brain injury claims in a career that has spanned more than 3 decades. She has a particular interest in child brain injury claims and professional negligence claims arising from the under settlement of high value personal injury claims. She has also successfully represented dependents bringing claims under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 and victims of crime pursuing claims under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority procedure.

  • Gill Edwards

    Gill Edwards has specialised solely in clinical negligence throughout her career. She has acted for Claimants who have been injured due to all aspects of clinical negligence involving GPs and hospital Trusts and she specialises in birth injury, brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation claims.

  • Tamlyn Palmer

    Tamlyn Palmer is a Senior Associate in the Serious Injury Team. Tamlyn is passionate about obtaining the best possible outcome for her clients and ensuring that they have access to specialist early rehabilitation as soon as possible.

    Tamlyn has over 14 years’ experience in personal injury litigation representing a wide range of clients and seeing claims through to settlement by negotiation or trial. Tamlyn’s main practice area is serious and complex injuries including brain damage, spinal injuries and chronic pain conditions.

  • Mark Robinson

    Mark Robinson is a Partner in the Serious Injury Department in Manchester and specialises in motorcycle accident claims of the utmost severity and complexity. He understands that motorcyclists remain one of the most vulnerable road users and the effects of an accident are a genuine concern for the motorcyclist and their loved ones. Mark has assisted clients with life changing injuries including brain and spinal injuries, severe orthopaedic injuries and amputations.

  • Greg Poole

    Greg is head of the Court of Protection team in our Manchester office. Greg acts as professional Deputy for clients who have sustained serious brain injuries which have impacted upon their capacity to make financial decisions for themselves. He acts as professional Trustee for clients who have retained capacity but require specialist advice in managing their compensation award.

  • Nicola Mepstead

    Nicola Mepstead acts mainly for brain injured clients, however injured, including workplace and road traffic accidents or criminal assault. Also acting for spinal cord injured clients or those that have suffered amputation or serious orthopaedic injuries and in fatal accidents.

  • Amber Mitchell

    Amber Mitchell is a Partner in our Serious Injury department and specialises in acting on behalf of those who have sustained traumatic brain injuries, polytrauma and psychiatric injuries.

    Amber is experienced in pursuing compensation claims against Defendant insurance companies, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.

  • Helen Dolan

    Helen Dolan is Joint Head of the Manchester Office and Head of the Clinical Negligence team. Helen specialises in high value complex secondary brain injury, spinal cord injury (including cauda equina syndrome), birth injury, cerebral palsy and wrongful birth cases, and also has extensive experience of orthopaedic and surgical cases.

  • Jeanne Evans

    Jeanne Evans is a partner in the personal injury department, Manchester office acting for claimants and almost exclusively those who have suffered a traumatic brain injury arising from Road Traffic Accidents, Employer’s Liability Claims and Public Liability Claims.

  • Helen Budge

    Helen Budge is a Partner in our clinical negligence department. She has more than 20 years of experience providing legal advice and support to claimants who have suffered serious injuries and has specialised in clinical negligence cases for most of her career. Helen deals with a broad range of medical negligence claims including brain injury cases (both adult and child), amputations, fatal claims and spinal injury cases. She has also represented many children who have cerebral palsy as a result of brain damage at birth.

  • Peter Renshaw

    Peter Renshaw is the head of our highly regarded Welfare Benefits Department, which has been in existence since the establishment of Potter Rees Dolan Solicitors.

  • Louise Gardner

    Louise Gardner is a senior associate in our serious injuries team representing claimants with traumatic brain injuries. Louise joined Hugh James in 2023. Louise’ cases are often complex, can involve disputed liability and involve significant damages. She has a proven track record of securing rehabilitation, therapies, interim payments and support for her clients as well as significant compensation for her clients.

  • Siobhan Thomas

    Siobhan Thomas represents individuals who have suffered a serious injury through no fault of their own. Many of her clients have experienced traumatic events and life changing injuries, that have seriously affected not only their health and wellbeing, but that of their loved ones too.

  • Anna Higham

    Anna Higham has specialised in high value and complex clinical negligence litigation, acting solely for claimants, since qualifying as a solicitor in 2009. She acts for clients who have suffered a range of injuries including catastrophic brain and spinal injury. She is also experienced in claims involving surgical negligence; failures to diagnose/treat strokes or other neurological conditions; fatal claims; orthopaedic injuries; birth injuries to both mother and baby and injuries during the neonatal period.

  • Kelly Charlton

    Kelly Charlton is a Senior Associate in the Clinical Negligence Department. She has exclusively practised in Claimant Clinical Negligence work since qualifying as a Solicitor in 2014.

    Kelly is based in Manchester deals primarily with complex and high value work including child and adult brain injury cases, spinal injury, and amputation claims.

  • Richard Edwards

    Richard Edwards is a Partner in the Serious Injury Department of our Manchester office. For nearly 20 years he has handled high value complex personal injury claims for those who have sustained brain, spinal and amputation injuries. He has dealt with claims in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and those with cross border jurisdiction issues, including in the US and Republic of Ireland.

  • Hugh Potter

    Hugh Potter is Joint Head of the Manchester Office and Head of the Personal injury team in Manchester. Throughout his career, Hugh has acted on behalf of clients with brain and spinal cord injuries of the utmost severity, as well as having experience handing professional negligence cases, achieving record settlements with a reputation recognised nationally.

  • Victoria Cannon

    Throughout her career spanning over 19 years in family law, Victoria Cannon has amassed extensive experience in advising business owners on safeguarding their enterprises during divorce proceedings and minimising disruption to their business.

  • Sami Palmer-Latif

    Sami Palmer-Latif is a Senior Associate within the Serious Injury Department at Hugh James. He has over 15 years’ experience across a wide spectrum of personal injury litigation.

  • Gary Herbert

    Gary Herbert is a Partner within our Personal Injury team and has dealt extensively with clients who have sustained life changing catastrophic injuries for 18 years. He specialises in acting for children and adults who have sustained a traumatic brain injury.

  • Catherine Keeley

    Catherine Keeley has worked in the Court of Protection field for 20 years and specialises in managing the financial affairs of clients who lack capacity, due to catastrophic injury or illness.

  • David Flanagan

    David Flanagan is a Senior Associate in our Court of Protection team, and has extensive experience working with protected parties from a range of backgrounds, whether this be birth injuries, clinical negligence or serious injuries as a result of road traffic accidents. David’s clients vary in ages from 5 years old to adult in their mid-60’s. He works closely with litigators on pre-settlement cases, forming part of the wider multi-disciplinary team as well as settled cases.

  • Lesley Herbertson

    Lesley Herbertson is a Partner at Hugh James and a leading medical negligence solicitor with over 30 years’ experience in dealing with catastrophic and serious injury medical negligence cases.

  • Mark Wilding

    Mark Wilding is a Senior Associate in our Court of Protection department and Director of the Potter Rees Dolan Trust Corporation Limited.

  • Jeremy Smith

    Jeremy Smith is a very experienced personal injury solicitor, having qualified in 1991. Since 2006, he has represented clients who have sustained catastrophic brain and spinal cord injuries, having previously acted mainly for sufferers of asbestos and other industrial diseases.

  • James Gratton

    James Gratton is a senior associate in the Manchester office and specialises in catastrophic injury claims, involving brain injury, spinal injury, and limb amputation claims, and combinations of serious injuries sustained in a single accident, otherwise known as polytrauma claims. James can deal with cases which occur in any setting, whether accidents on the road, at work, or in a public place.

  • Maria Cosslett

    Maria Cosslett has many years of experience when it comes to providing clear, concise advice to clients in relation to their wills, powers of attorney and administration of estates and trusts. She has many long-standing clients, whom she has advised through the generations.

  • Alix Langrognat

    Alix Langrognat is a partner in the Wills and Estate Planning team, and advises a range of clients including individuals, business owners and trustees and maintains a mixed practice. She prides herself on exceptional client service and has a proactive and solutions-based attitude.

  • Connor Hegarty

    Since qualification in 2017, Connor Hegarty has worked exclusively within the field of health and social care, with expertise in mental capacity, mental health, medical treatment, and inquests. Having recently joined the Regulatory team Connor brings his experience of having advised CCGs/ICBs, trusts, health boards, and private care providers regarding these difficult and sensitive areas of law.

    Connor also has experience in advising Court of Protection Professional Deputies on inter-related property/financial affairs and health/welfare issues.

  • Siôn Tudur

    Siôn Tudur has a wealth of experience advising businesses of various sizes, from start-ups to PLCs as well as charities and the public sector. He enjoys corporate transactional work and has in-depth knowledge and expertise in a range of corporate matters, from mergers and acquisitions to management buy-outs and equity investments.

  • Karl Thomas

    Karl Thomas has a proven track record in mediation and alternative dispute resolution, and a background in sports law having advised numerous national governing bodies on regulatory and disciplinary matters.

  • Mark Loosemore

    Mark Loosemore is a partner in the corporate/commercial team who specialises in the sport, hospitality & leisure and media & entertainment sectors. He joined Hugh James in July 2023 following the acquisition of Loosemores Solicitors.

  • Alena Zavarin

    Alena Zavarin is a Chartered Financial Planner who joined Hugh James in May 2023. Alena is experienced in all major areas of personal finance, including investments, pensions, estate planning, and protection strategies. Her proficiency extends to working with vulnerable clients and those in long-term care settings.

  • Stephanie Cross

    Stephanie works within the Independent Financial Adviser team as a Paraplanner, and assists in building, and ensuring the continued suitability of, financial plans for clients across the UK.

  • Thomas Powell

    Thomas Powell is the Junior Paraplanner within the Independent Financial Adviser team, aiding the advisers in the production of reports and product research.

  • Gemma Rowe

    As Head of PR and Communications, Gemma Rowe brings a wealth of experience in strategic communication, public relations, and media management. She has a proven track record of delivering successful PR campaigns and managing high-profile events spanning 19 years.

  • Rajan Shori

    Rajan Shori draws from nearly two decades of real estate experience to help clients advance business objectives in commercial real estate transactions, acquisitions and financings.

  • Anna Burns

    Anna Burns is a specialist Asbestos Litigator who has been helping individuals diagnosed with asbestos related illnesses to claim compensation since she qualified as a Solicitor in 2007.

  • Campbell McKellar

    Campbell is a Senior Associate in the corporate commercial team at Hugh James and works on all aspects of corporate transactional work, including mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity investments, management buyouts (MBOs) and disposals. He also advises companies on commercial contracts and general company law.

  • Gemma Davies

    As a Senior Associate in the corporate commercial team at Hugh James, Gemma works on all aspects of corporate transactional work, including mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity investments, management buyouts (MBOs) and disposals. She also advises companies on commercial contracts and general company law.

  • Ceri Webster

    Ceri Webster, a senior associate in our trusts and estates administration department, acts in estate administration cases on behalf of high street banks.

  • Angharad Jones

    Angharad is a Senior Associate in the Industrial Disease department and has over three years of experience in dealing with asbestos related disease claims. She acts for patients suffering from asbestos related diseases including asbestosis, pleural thickening and mesothelioma, and also specialises in claims for silicosis.

  • Ruth Davies

    Ruth Davies is a Senior Associate within the Industrial Disease department at Hugh James. She qualified as a solicitor in 2011 specialising civil litigation before joining Hugh James in 2012. She has experience in dealing with group actions and claimant industrial disease litigation, with specialism in occupational noise induced hearing loss claims.

  • Rhian Hardy

    Rhian is an Associate in the Group Actions department and has over ten years’ experience in high profile multi-party group litigation both in the UK and Internationally.

  • Gareth Beard

    Gareth has worked exclusively on clinical negligence claims since 2010, involving defendants in both England and Wales.

    During this time he has experienced claims involving a broad range of medical conditions and complications.  Of particular interest to Gareth are claims involving nerve injuries and chronic pain conditions, orthopaedic injuries/complications, hospital acquired infections, vascular cases, general surgical cases and bowel injury cases.

  • Gareth Morgan

    Gareth is a Consultant who specialises in disease litigation, multi-party action, professional negligence and industrial accidents.

  • Sarah O’Grady

    Sarah O’Grady joined Hugh James in 2022 as a Senior Associate in the Private Wealth Disputes team. She specialises in all types of probate and trust disputes, including claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, removal of trustees and executors, challenges to the validity of wills, construction and rectification claims and beneficiary disputes.

  • Ryan Taylor

    Ryan Taylor is a Senior Associate in the Private Wealth Disputes team, working in the London office. He has considerable experience in the field of litigated estates and trusts, where he advises clients in relation to beneficiary disputes, claims on estates, disputes over wills, and contentious Court of Protection matters. He acts both for executors seeking to defend estates; and disappointed beneficiaries in seeking to claim further provision and/or dispute the validity of wills. His practise also deals with trust disputes and arguments over the beneficial entitlement to land and property.

  • Elinor Corbett-Jones

    Elinor is a Senior Associate in the Employment and HR Services team, with a particular focus on employee relations.

  • Ivan Moody

    Ivan is a Senior Associate in the Clinical Negligence department. He has specialised exclusively in clinical negligence work in a wide variety of areas since qualifying as a solicitor over 20 years ago.

  • Christine Bradbury

    Christine Bradbury is a Senior Associate in our Employment team who specialises in providing practical and commercial advice to private and public sector organisations in relation to a wide-range of often complex employment issues.

  • Sophie Jones

    Sophie specialises exclusively in clinical negligence work in a wide variety of areas, and has a special interest in cases involving delays in diagnosis of cancer, negligent surgery, obstetric mismanagement, avoidable amputation and injuries resulting in death.

  • Eleanor Bamber

    Throughout her career as an employment law specialist, Eleanor has regularly advised private clients and numerous public sector bodies on a wide range of issues, including conducting large scale redundancies and reorganisations and dealing with the implications of TUPE.

    Eleanor also has significant experience in defending multiple equal pay cases in the public sector as well as successfully defending numerous claims for discrimination and unfair dismissal brought by individual employees in the private sector. Eleanor deals with employment tribunal litigation, settlement agreements, pre-termination negotiations, disciplinary and grievance issues and performance and absence management issues.

  • Kirsten Franklin

    Since joining Hugh James in 2011, Kirsten has specialised in trusts and their administration.

    Kirsten currently heads up the trust administration team which acts for private individuals, corporate clients, professional trustees and trust corporations.

  • Mark Lane

    Mark Lane is a Legal Director undertaking a variety of clinical negligence work relating to NHS, GP and private treatment. Having practised in medical negligence since qualifying, he has gained a great deal of experience in investigating and pursuing such matters.

  • Tim Howorth

    Tim is a senior associate with a wealth of experience specialising in property damage and liability disputes. Tim deals with numerous large value claims arising from fire, floods, explosions, vehicular impact, and negligence of property owners and escape of water.

  • James Guile

  • Kimberley Sutton

    Kimberley is a Senior Associate in the environmental team and specialises in group action private nuisance claims. She is involved in a number of private nuisance group actions, involving allegations of dust, odour and noise nuisance.

  • Christiane Welsh

    Christiane Welsh has specialist experience in a wide range of areas including commercial property, development, landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions and disposals and re-financing.

    Christy also has specific experience dealing with housing associations, developers, lending institutions and private clients.

  • Paul Spiteri

    Paul Spiteri is a Senior Associate in the Industrial Disease department, where he acts on behalf of clients who are existing or veteran service personnel with noise induced hearing loss claims. He also has experience of dealing with asbestos claims.

  • Mark Powell KC

    Mark Powell KC is a Consultant with Hugh James. As the only practising KC solicitor in Wales, he has extensive experience in advising clients in family law matters, representing local authorities in high profile child care cases and has special expertise in adoption.

  • Phoebe Orbell

    Phoebe is a Senior HR Advisor for Hugh James and is based in the Cardiff office.

  • Gemma Osgood

    Gemma is a partner in the Clinical Negligence team in our Southampton office. Gemma represents individuals who have suffered an injury through no fault of their own. She helps them to obtain compensation for their injury and to get closure on what has happened to them. She is able to provide the support and advice that these clients need at a difficult time in their life.

    She has a number of years of experience in this type of work and is well respected by barristers, experts and clients for the excellent results she achieves.

  • David Hulse

    David Hulse heads up the Hugh James Independent Financial adviser team. An experienced adviser looking after personal and professional clients based all over the UK from London to Edinburgh and closer to home here in South Wales.

  • Diane Brooks

    In her role as HR Director, Diane Brooks is responsible for the smooth operation of the firm’s HR department. This includes implementing HR strategies including talent acquisition, staffing, employee benefits, health and wellbeing, learning and development, succession planning, employee relations and retention.

  • Kathleen Hallisey

    Kathleen Hallisey is a Senior Associate in the Abuse Team at Hugh James.

    Originally from the US, she began her legal career in New York before moving to the UK and becoming a solicitor. Throughout her career, she has exclusively acted on behalf of claimants, including those who suffered catastrophic injuries on the road or at work, were dismissed from their jobs as a result of discrimination, or sexually assaulted on university campuses.

  • Gareth Williams

    Gareth Williams is a consultant at Hugh James.  For twelve years (until his retirement as a partner in 2017) he was the firm’s senior partner.  He specialises in sports law and substantial commercial and insurance litigation.  He has represented insurance and corporate risk clients for more than 25 years, handling complex and high value cases.

  • Joe Purcell

    Joe Purcell is head of business development and marketing at Hugh James.

    He is responsible for implementing the firm’s business development and marketing strategy.

    He is also the firm’s main contact for any media enquiries.

  • Catrin Wigley

    Catrin Wigley joined Hugh James as a Partner in 2022 in the firm’s Wills and Estate Planning department. She brings with her a wealth of experience of acting for high net worth clients and business owners. Catrin regularly receives referrals from other law firms, accountants, charities and Independent Financial Advisers together with direct client instructions, across the spectrum of wills, trusts and estate planning matters.

  • Tom Hall

    Tom is a partner in the firm’s Court of Protection unit and has specialised exclusively in this area since 2012. Tom joined Hugh James in September 2022, having previously been a partner at Thomson Snell & Passmore.

    The majority of Tom’s clients are brain injury survivors who have received compensation awards. Tom is also often instructed to prepare expert witness statements regarding Court of Protection costs to assist with ongoing personal injury and clinical negligence claims.

  • Victoria Jones

    Victoria Jones is a Partner in the Private Wealth Disputes team. She advises and represents charities, homes and families in probate, charitable legacy and contentious will and trust disputes.

    Victoria also specialises in cases involving the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Court of Protection disputes. She has a particular interest in cases in cases involving financial fraud and disputed lifetime gifts involving vulnerable adults.

  • Lynda Reynolds

    Lynda is a Partner and Head of the Inquest Team that forms part of the Clinical Negligence Department in the London office. She has considerable experience in assisting families with inquests that relate to deaths in hospital or care homes, where medical negligence is suspected.

    She has been instructed on Article 2 inquests, inquests with juries and complicated medical inquests where numerous experts have been instructed. Where necessary she will make submissions on the Coroner’s power to issue Prevention of Future Deaths reports. Her inquest role combined with subsequent civil claims ensures that she is a specialist on Fatal Accident Act Claims. She is recognised in both UK Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

    In addition to her role in the Inquest team Lynda has a caseload of complex clinical negligence matters which include cerebral palsy, brain injuries, spinal injuries and cauda equina claims.

  • Rebecca Rees

    Rebecca is a Partner and heads up the Property Dispute Resolution team, having been a member of the team since qualification in 1999, she has built up a reputation as a leading expert in the area.

    She has extensive experience of landlord and tenant matters, both commercial and residential, and of property disputes such as boundary issues, restrictive covenants, easements and other property rights, public and private rights of way.

  • Andrew Hoad

    A Corporate / Commercial Partner in our London city office, Andrew Hoad has over 23 years’ experience in dealing with all types of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, private and public equity fundraising and shareholder restructuring.

    During his career, he has worked as a corporate lawyer for firms including Nabarro Nathanson, as well as establishing boutique corporate law practices, where he has been involved in building impressive client rosters from scratch.

  • Andrew Walker

    Andrew Walker joined Hugh James in April 2021 and is a Partner in the Specialist Asbestos team, based in Plymouth. Andrew has acted for those suffering from asbestos related diseases exclusively for the last 13 years.

    Due to Andrew’s location in Plymouth, he has extensive knowledge of the exposures to asbestos at Devonport Royal Dockyard and has represented many clients who were employed there.

  • Andrew Harding

    Andrew is a consultant in the firm’s Neurolaw Department covering brain and spinal injuries and Court of Protection deputyship. Andrew established the firm’s dedicated Brain Injury Unit in 1998 and has over 30 years’ experience representing the survivors of catastrophic injury. He is responsible for the growth and development of the unit into a national multidisciplinary specialist department.

  • Abigail Flanagan

    Abigail Flanagan joined the dispute resolution team in 2005 and became a Partner in May 2022. Abbie specialises in professional negligence claims (mainly against solicitors, accountancy practitioners and other finance professionals), general commercial litigation matters (including warranty, contractual and director/shareholder disputes) and insolvency matters.

  • Mary Mulhall

    Mary Mulhall is a Partner in the Industrial Disease department, and has been representing claimants in asbestos disease cases since 2012, specialising in mesothelioma, asbestosis and pleural thickening cases.

  • Rhiannon Dale

    A Partner in the Employment and HR Services team, Rhiannon joined Hugh James in 2008 as a paralegal in the same team.

    On a daily basis Rhiannon advises and assists on a variety of contentious and non-contentious employment issues to a range of clients, from family-owned business and individuals, to third sector and local authority clients. She also reviews and drafts contracts of employment, staff handbooks, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the ever changing employment legislation and ensure that they are tailored to suit the needs, ethos and culture of individual organisations.

     

  • Peter Hilditch

    Peter joined Hugh James in April 2021 and is a Partner in the Specialist Asbestos team, based in the Southampton office. Peter has specialised in asbestos disease claims for over 20 years, including claims for mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis.

  • Lynn Yeates

    Lynn Yeates joined Hugh James in April 2021 and is a Partner in the Specialist Asbestos team based in the Southampton office. She specialises solely in asbestos disease litigation and has a long history of representing victims of asbestos exposure and their families.

    Lynn has considerable experience working on complex, high value compensation claims and has strong links with medical specialists, palliative care providers, support organisations and barristers. She has in excess of 15 years’ experience working solely with people diagnosed with illnesses such as mesothelioma and other serious asbestos related illnesses.

  • Ruth Powell

    Ruth is a Partner and Head of our Clinical Negligence Department. She has exclusively practised in clinical negligence since qualifying in 1995 and has a wealth of experience in complex and high value clinical negligence claims.

  • Kevin O’Brien

    Kevin is a partner in our Dispute Resolution, he has more than 20 years’ experience acting on behalf of banking and lender clients, businesses and individuals, in a wide range of complex and high-value professional negligence and liability claims.

    Ranked as a leading individual in the field of professional negligence by industry bible the Legal 500, Kevin’s thorough, knowledgeable, and commercially sensible approach is singled out in the latest Chamber and Partners directory. He is also an accredited mediator, with 17 years’ experience mediating a range of civil and commercial disputes.

  • Jody Bingham

    Jody is a Partner in the firm’s banking team. He is based in the firm’s London office and his expertise includes real estate finance, healthcare, acquisition finance, back-to-back funding lines and general corporate banking. Jody acts for a broad range of clients which includes banks, alternative lenders, FinTechs and borrowers.

  • Richard Pike

    Richard is a Partner in our Commercial Property team based in London. Richard has a broad general commercial property experience including advising on landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions and disposals, estate management work and secured lending on behalf of lenders.

    Richard also specialises in acting for both landowners and mineral and aggregates operating companies on the management and extraction of mineral deposits.

  • Kelly Davies

    Kelly qualified into the Property Division at Hugh James following completion of her training contract with the firm in 2007.

    She has experience in a wide range of areas including the acquisition and disposal of commercial property, advising on landlord and tenant matters, commercial property development transactions and secured lending.

    Kelly has particular experience in dealing with developers, lending institutions, residential house builders and housing associations.

  • Matthew Stevens

    Matthew has specialised exclusively in construction and engineering law since qualification and has considerable experience in dealing with contentious, non-contentious and professional negligence issues.

  • Lucy Strong

    Lucy is a partner in the asbestos litigation group and leads the team in Wales.  Lucy has extensive experience working on complex asbestos-related disease claims and regularly secures large compensation awards for her clients.

  • Bethan Gladwyn

    Bethan Gladwyn is head of the housing management team as a result of her capability and specialist knowledge in her field of law. A specialist in social housing law and practice, anti-social behaviour and landlord and tenant (residential), Bethan assisted in setting up Wales’s first anti-social behaviour unit at Hugh James.

  • Rowena Downie

    Rowena is a partner and works within the firm’s banking team.  Her area of expertise includes real estate finance, acquisition finance, renewables finance, development finance and intercreditor arrangements.

    Some of her most notable clients include NatWest, HSBC Bank Plc, Hodge Bank, Metro Bank Plc, Lloyds Private Bank and the Development Bank of Wales (formerly Finance Wales). She regularly provides advice to these clients on all areas of banking.

  • Elin Davies

    Elin has extensive knowledge of medical negligence claims having dealt with a variety of cases, including orthopaedic injuries, cancer misdiagnosis, ophthalmic negligence particularly in respect of cataract surgery and stroke management.

    Successful claims against nursing homes and hospitals have been pursued by Elin in respect of failings in the care of the elderly. She also has vast experience in representing minors who have experienced a range of injuries as a result of negligent care.

  • Emily Powell

    Emily is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial team. Emily specialises in commercial law, public procurement and subsidy control. Emily has advised housing associations on their procurement processes and can provide a complete legal service for all procurement and project requirements. Emily also hosts a forum for ‘heads of’ procurement working within the social housing sector.

  • Ciaran McCabe

    Ciaran McCabe is a Partner and joint head of the National Serious Injury Department. The department was awarded Claimant Catastrophic Injury Team of the year at the PI Awards in 2021. He has specialised for over 20 years in assisting both adults and children, through England and Wales, who have sustained life changing injuries to the brain, spinal cord and limb loss.

  • Katie McCraith

    Since 2005 Katie has exclusively undertaken clinical negligence work. She has experience in a wide variety of areas. Katie has a specialist interest in orthopaedic, gynaecological and cardiac claims and cases involving gall bladder injuries, as well as delays in diagnosis and missed diagnosis of cancer.

  • James Gibson

    James is a Partner at Hugh James specialising in group litigation and international asbestos-related disease claims. Having been appointed as a lead solicitor in a number of complex and high-profile group litigation actions, James has successfully settled hundreds of personal injury claims and recovered millions of pounds in compensation for clients over the past 14 years.

  • Jo Brown

    Jo is a Partner within the dispute resolution team and has a broad range of experience across all aspects of commercial dispute resolution with an emphasis on property litigation disputes including misrepresentation, squatter evictions, lease renewal litigation, the operation of break clauses, possession claims, easements and other third party claims.

    Jo has particular experience of advising clients in the telecoms sector specifically in relation to the implications of the Digital Economy Act 2017. She frequently assists a large telecom investment company who invests in telecoms sites in the UK.  She is also recognised for her work in the hospitality and leisure sector on property related issues for companies such as S.A. Brain & Co Limited and Coffee#1 Limited.

  • Alex Pay

    Alex Pay is a partner within the dispute resolution team and leads the insolvency team. Alex has over 20 years’ experience in this practice area acting for a range of clients including insolvency practitioners, lenders, and business professionals.

    He has particular expertise in both contentious and non-contentious insolvency work. Alex also handles mainstream litigation work, which usually relates to commercial disputes.

  • Daniel Morgan

    Daniel Morgan has considerable experience across all aspects of commercial property for a broad range of clients.  He has particular expertise in the leisure, betting and gaming sectors, advising on property issues for companies such as S.A. Brain & Company Limited, Coffee #1 Limited, Novomatic UK Limited, the Rainbow Casino Group and TCS John Huxley Limited.

  • Katherine Allen

    Katherine acts for Claimants in cases across the whole range of travel personal injury litigation including package holiday claims, foreign RTAs, aviation accidents, accidents on cruise ships, foreign employers and occupier’s liability claims.  She has over 18 years’ experience in this field and has particular expertise in serious brain and spinal injury cases and cases involving points relating to jurisdiction and applicable law.

  • Cari Sowden-Taylor

    Cari is a Partner and Joint Head of the National Serious Injury Team, and specialises in representing adult and child claimants who have sustained life changing injuries such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, limb loss and polytrauma following road traffic collisions, injuries at work and assaults.

  • Roman Kubiak TEP

    Roman Kubiak is a Partner and Head of the market leading Private Wealth Disputes team.

    He advises across the whole spectrum of private wealth disputes, with a particular focus on high value, complex and cross-border disputes including: trust disputes, breach of trust claims and applications to remove trustees; will disputes, particularly those with an international element; claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; and claims for equitable relief under proprietary estoppel, constructive trusts and resulting trusts.

  • Tracey Singlehurst-Ward

    Tracey Singlehurst-Ward is a Partner in the firm and sits within the dispute resolution team. Tracey practises in general commercial and company disputes, and complements her strong core practice with specialist expertise in intellectual property, sports law, information law and privacy and media.

  • Alan Collins

    Alan Collins is one of the best known and most experienced solicitors in the field of child abuse litigation and has acted in many high profile cases, including the Jimmy Savile and Haut de la Garenne abuse scandals.  Alan has represented interested parties before public inquiries including the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, and IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse).

    Internationally, Alan works in Australia, South East Asia, Uganda, Kenya, and California representing clients in high profile sexual abuse cases. Alan also spoke at the Third Regional Workshop on Justice for Children in East Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok hosted by Unicef and HCCH (Hague Conference on Private International Law).

  • Rhian Parsons

    Rhian Parsons has specialised exclusively in Clinical Negligence work thereby gaining experience in all areas, but with a special interest in obstetrics, oncology and wrongful birth claims.

  • Eleanor Evans TEP

    Eleanor is Head of the Trusts and Estates Administration Department, a large team dealing with estates and trusts administration on behalf of financial institution and trust corporation clients.  Eleanor is a specialist in wills, probate, tax and trusts, and is a full member of STEP (the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners).  She is also a committee member of the STEP Wales branch.

  • Stephanie Eedy

    Stephanie Eedy specialises in group actions on behalf of communities and residents across England and Wales affected by various forms of environmental pollution such as odour, noise and dust emanating from factories, landfill sites and other similar commercial entities.  She has successfully concluded a number of environmental group actions in locations within the UK and has secured compensation and an end to the nuisance on behalf of a large number of individuals.

  • Gareth Wisdom

    Gareth Wisdom is a partner and head of our will writing services. He is responsible for the business development of the will writing team and our wider private wealth management proposition.

  • Iwan Jenkins

    Iwan advises on non-contentious construction matters and has prepared and negotiated documentation on a wide variety of projects. He has advised on building contracts, appointments, development agreements, construction security documentation and all associated documentation.

    Iwan has advised public sector clients in social housing, education, local and national government as well as contractors, consultants, sub-contractors, developers and funders in the private sector.

    Iwan has a particular interest and expertise in framework agreements and collaborative construction contracts.

  • Greg Williams

    Greg is a partner within the corporate and commercial team. He has a wealth of experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions with a focus on domestic and international M&A, advising investor and investee companies on private equity investments, particularly in the life science sector. Greg’s clients include Development Bank of Wales, Creo Medical and FP Hurley. He has acted as the lead on a number of standout corporate transactions including Voltcom on its reorganisation and multimillion pound investment by Beechbrook Capital and sale of Amber Engineering of Biffa Plc.

    Greg also leads the dedicated healthcare team. He is highly regarded within this sector as has a wealth of experience acting for the healthcare and the life sciences businesses.

  • Alun Tobias

    Alun Tobias heads up the subrogated recovery team and advises both insurers and large corporates on high value/complex subrogated recovery claims. Alun’s advice expands across the spectrum of perils, including high value/complex impact, escape of water, flood, fire, landslip and subsidence. As part of his role, Alun leads a team of five lawyers specialising in recovering outlays for insurers, with a particular focus on losses, in the construction industry.

  • Lisa Morgan

    Lisa Morgan is a Partner and Head of the Nursing Care department. She is regarded as an experienced and specialist solicitor leading in the niche area of continuing healthcare.

    She has been instrumental in developing a niche legal department in Hugh James, which comprises of 40 fee earners who solely act for the elderly and families in recovering wrongly paid nursing fees.

  • David Pittick

    A Partner in the Commercial property team, David’s focus is on plot sales and part exchange transactions. He has extensive experience of associated planning agreements, statutory infrastructure agreements, residential conveyancing, and site acquisitions including greenfield and brownfield sites, mixed-use developments, and urban regeneration schemes.

  • Gwen Morgan-Evans

    Gwen is head of environmental claims and one of the UK’s leading environmental lawyers. She has 11 years’ experience specialising in group actions on behalf of communities affected by various forms of environmental pollution.

    Gwen has successfully concluded a number of large environmental group actions in locations throughout the UK. She has represented many thousands of individuals securing compensation, and more importantly to the claimants, an end to the nuisance.

  • Louise Price

    A highly specialised lawyer, Louise is a Partner and Head of Employment and HR services. Her expertise includes corporate support work, TUPE, pensions and employee benefits advice. She regularly advises private, public and third sector clients regarding large scale TUPE transfers of staff including drafting indemnities and warranties, advising on potential employment and pension liabilities, information and consultation obligations, and providing best value guidance.

  • Yvonne Davies

    Yvonne is a Partner in the firm’s Commercial Property team and has over 20 years’ experience acting for Welsh registered social landlords. Yvonne has experience of dealing with all property issues concerning Residential Social Landlord (RSLs). As a result of specialising in this work, Yvonne not only has excellent experience and knowledge, but also an in depth understanding of the sector. This includes the requirements of the Welsh Government in relation to governance and grant funding.

  • Richard Green

    Richard is a Partner and Head of the Asbestos Litigation team. Richard specialises in asbestos-related disease claims and has recovered millions of pounds in compensation for his clients.

  • Simon Ellis

    Simon Ellis is a Partner with Hugh James and has worked with the firm for more than 25 years, having trained and qualified here. Simon heads up the Military Department, advising and assisting current and former military personnel with various health conditions and injuries. He specialises in claims such as hearing loss, non-freezing cold injuries, compartment syndrome and military injury cases. He is often asked to advise on more unusual claims in the military context.

  • Kathryn Singh

    Kathryn is a partner and head of the Workplace Disease and Illness department which is ranked as a top tier firm for the work carried out. Kathryn leads a strong team of industrial disease specialists with an emphasis upon delivering a high level of specialist advice in multiple high value disease illness claims and complex group litigation.

  • Matthew Evans

    Matthew is a partner and heads up the firm’s private wealth offering. He is responsible for the development, implementation and long-term strategy of the team.

    Matthew has a UK-wide reputation in the field of contentious probate, recognised by his clients and peers in the leading legal directories.

  • Caroline O’Flaherty

    As a Partner in the Commercial Property team, Caroline O’Flaherty, specialises in acquisitions, disposals, property development and finance. Working across a variety of sectors, from office, retail, and industrial to leisure, Caroline has particular expertise in property portfolio management and leasing work.

  • Dominic Marshall

    Dominic is a partner and head of the banking and finance team. Dominic is a vastly experienced banking and finance lawyer who, since joining Hugh James in 2010 has grown and developed the banking team into a leading player, acting for high street banks, challenger banks, financial institutions and building societies.

  • David King

    With vast experience within the sector advising private network owners, investors and landlords, telecoms law is a key area of David’s portfolio.

    Nationally recognised as a leading specialist in advising on the new Electronic Communications Code and telecoms leases, David’s niche extends to advising on the acquisition and decommissioning of telecoms sites by investors and operators, and in advising on the decommissioning of telecoms sites.

  • Aled Walters

    Aled Walters is a corporate, M&A and commercial partner who heads the commercial team. Aled advises on corporate and commercial matters, often advising on complex and high-value commercial agreements. He has significant experience advising on complex contracts and deals with a multi-jurisdictional dimension.

  • Martin Jones

    As the Head of the Regulatory Department, Martin acts in a wide-range of regulatory crime and professional regulation matters. Martin has built up over 20 years of experience and a wealth of specialist knowledge.

    He leads the firm’s cross-departmental alcohol and gaming licensing teams. Additionally Martin manages the teams providing a range of outsourced services to local authorities, including court representation of local authorities Adult and Children’s Services Departments.

  • Peter Hurn

    Peter heads up the fastest expanding real estate team in Wales. He was responsible for negotiating the lease for one of the biggest pre-let office deals in Wales, the firm’s new landmark headquarters at Two Central Square.

  • Gerallt Jones

    Gerallt is a partner and head of the corporate and commercial team. Since joining Hugh James in 2005, Gerallt has led the team to be a leading player within the corporate and commercial market, advising clients including the Welsh Government, Princes Gate Water and the Development Bank of Wales.

    Gerallt also has particular expertise in the sport and food & drink sectors, leading Hugh James’s relationships with clients in these sectors including the Welsh Rugby Union and Braces Bakery.

  • Mark Harvey

    Mark Harvey is a Partner in the claimant division. He has obtained compensation for many individual victims of common but defective consumer products as well as victims of accidents overseas and arising out of travel generally.

    Mark is the court appointed lead solicitor coordinating over 1,000 claimants in a group litigation order (GLO) arising out of the recall and health alert relating to the French manufacturer’s PIP silicone breast implants.

  • Andrew Davies

    Andrew Davies specialises in funding, budgeting and legal costs in high value complex and multi-party litigation both in the UK and internationally. He also specialises in law relating to medical, surgical and clinical practice. Andrew is now part of the Senior Management Team overseeing multi-party group actions and has considerable expertise in legal costs on which he takes the lead.

  • Matthew Tossell

    Matthew Tossell is currently the most senior partner in Hugh James. Having had varied responsibilities and holding several senior management positions throughout his career, he is currently responsible for a number of major partnership projects.

  • Richard Locke

    Richard is a Partner and an elected partner on the firm’s board of management.  He is also Group Head of the ever expanding dispute resolution team at Hugh James. He conducts major commercial disputes frequently with an international flavour including commercial claims, mining disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, contentious IT disputes, injunctive relief and insolvency.

  • Neil Stockdale

    Neil is head of the firm’s group actions and financial mis-selling teams, specialising in handling claims for financial mis-selling relating to energy contracts, pensions, investments and timeshares.

  • Ioan Prydderch

    Ioan is head of the firm’s business services division, which comprises all of the teams which provide transactional, contractual, advisory and dispute resolution advice to businesses and organisations.  Ioan is also Head of our Construction, Energy and Projects team and has spent almost 20 years advising clients on non-contentious and contentious construction matters. He has extensive experience in the construction and engineering sector and has acted in a number of high value and complicated disputes.

    Ioan’s role involves advising the firm’s key clients on some of the most significant construction projects and disputes in Wales and the wider UK.

  • Stephen Webber

    Steve is head of one of the two divisions at Hugh James. This division comprises all of the teams which advise private individuals; both claimant litigants and individuals requiring advice on their personal finances and family. Steve specialises in high value medical negligence cases including cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, brain injury, psychiatric, obstetric cases and issues relating to human rights.

  • Laura Metcalfe

    Laura Metcalfe is a Senior Associate in the Court of Protection Team within the Serious Injury Department. Working within the Court of Protection Team Laura specialises in providing professional deputy input to those who lack the necessary capacity to manage and administer their own finances.

  • Kieran Forsyth

    Kieran Forsyth is a Senior Associate in the Private Wealth Disputes team. He advises both on contentious and non-contentious matters. On the non-contentious side, Kieran advises on high net worth trust and estate planning matters, whilst on the contentious side, Kieran can advise on all matters of trust, will and estate disputes including Inheritance Act claims.

  • Kate Coles

    Kate works in the Court of Protection department as the Specialist Support Services Manager.

    Kate provides a unique role in providing support, assistance and guidance not only to clients but often importantly to families. Her understanding of the complexities of brain injury ensures that appropriate professionals are instructed.

  • June Parry

    June Parry is a associate who joined Hugh James in 1977. June works in the Claimant Litigation Division and built her expertise in claimant personal injury, specifically in road traffic claims and more recently industrial injury claims such as lung cancer and respiratory claims.

    June has been heavily involved in the preparation of the Phurnacite group litigation trial where claims were brought for respiratory disease and cancers.

  • Joy Davies

    Joy works in the Court of Protection department and deals with applications to the Court of Protection for statutory wills and other property and affair issues. She also manages the day to day running of deputyship matters.

  • Jason Lloyd

    Since leaving the University of Chester with a degree in Business Studies (BA Hons) in 2010, Jason Lloyd immediately began work with Innes Reid Investments Ltd, one of the leading Independent Financial Adviser’s in the North East where he quickly developed to the role of Paraplanner. After a short time back in his home county of Pembrokeshire, Jason joined the Independent Financial Advisers team at Hugh James in July 2013.

  • James Coleman

    He is currently a member of the Financial Mis-Selling team where he specialises in recovering compensation relating to property investment scams, pensions, mortgages and other financial products.

  • Francesca Bamsey

    Francesca Bamsey joined Hugh James in February 2013. Francesca works in the Claimant Litigation Division specialising in industrial injury claims such as hearing loss claims.

  • Erich Kurtz

    Erich joined Hugh James in 2021 as a Senior Associate in the Financial Mis-Selling team. He specialises in recovering compensation relating to regulated and unregulated investments, insurance, consumer credit agreements, pensions, mortgages and other financial products.

    Erich has specialised in complex multi-claimant litigation, with a strong track record of leading financial group litigation cases.

  • Danielle Vincent

    Danielle is a Senior Associate in the Abuse Specialist Personal Injury Department. She specialises in representing survivors of abuse and has experience in bringing claims against a number of institutions as well as individual abusers.

  • Charlotte Fletcher

    Charlotte Fletcher is a Partner in the serious injury department and specialises in Court of Protection matters, assisting with providing professional deputy input to those who lack the necessary capacity to manage and administer their own finances.

  • Austin Gill TEP

    Austin Gill is a Legal Director in the Trusts and Estate Administration Department at Hugh James. He joined Hugh James in 2015, having previously worked at a leading provider of probate and estate administration services.

  • Aidan Lloyd

    Aidan Lloyd is a Senior Associate in the Specialist PI Department having joined Hugh James in 2010. He is an accredited Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) with extensive experience of complex, high value personal injury litigation. He specialises in recovering compensation for victims of overseas accidents and injuries caused as a result of defective and harmful products, with particular expertise in defective medical devices.

  • Helen Saunders

    Helen is responsible for the overall management of Legal Network including its relationships with its member firms, seminars and training, the buying group and future initiatives such as value added services.

  • Emma Poole

    Emma leads relationships with Hugh James’ clients in social housing and third sectors, representing a dedicated team consisting of over 150 lawyers, paralegals and support staff. In this role she uses her extensive commercial knowledge of the legal issues faced by organisations in these sectors, and takes account of the unique culture, values and political landscape that drive their development.

  • Sheila Moore

    Sheila Moore is the lead contact in the regulatory department for dealing with Adult social services matters on behalf of local authorities. She has extensive experience within Family having worked in the family department for 15 years prior to taking maternity leave in 2011. In 2012 Sheila took up a position on a part time basis in the regulatory department where she remains.

  • Sion Richards

    ​Sion Richards is an Associate in the Neurolaw department and, since his qualification in 2018, has specialised in Court of Protection property and affairs matters and Personal Injury Trusts.

  • Saran Estebanez

    Saran has been specialising in the niche area of continuing healthcare funding since 2007 and has acted for hundreds of clients in England and Wales in securing NHS funding, challenging current and retrospective decisions to refuse NHS funded continuing healthcare to long-term care home residents.

  • Sarah Morgan

    Sarah is an Associate solicitor in the Trusts and Estates Administration team. She joined Hugh James in 2012 as a paralegal and starter her training contract in 2016.

  • Sarah-Jane Jerard

    Sarah-Jane Jerard is an Associate in the Specialist PI Department and has extensive experience in personal injury and disease litigation. She manages the fast-track personal injury team which deals with road traffic accident claims and employers’ liability and public liability claims up to the value of £25,000.

  • Sandeep Gill

    Sandeep is a Partner in our specialist injury team, representing both adults and children who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, polytrauma and spinal injuries. In addition, Sandeep has extensive knowledge of handling fatal accident claims.

  • Samantha Roberts TEP

    Samantha Roberts is a Partner at Hugh James and works in the managed probate team of asset management.

  • Richard Jones

    Richard Jones joined the commercial property division at Hugh James in January 2020. Richard has more than 10 years’ experience in a wide range of residential property matters including sales, purchases, remortgages, transfers, shared ownership/equity, new builds, help to buy, equity release, and boundary adjustments.

  • Ria Coleman

    Ria currently specialises in handling claims for financial mis-selling relating to pensions, mortgages and other financial products.

  • Rebecca Mather

    Since completing her training at Hugh James Rebecca has Specialised entirely in clinical negligence and NHS Redress complaints.

    In addition to running her own caseload covering a range of injuries to include orthopaedic claims, delay in diagnosis of cancer, dental claims and NHS Redress complaints; Rebecca assists her colleagues in the department with more complex cases.

  • Rebecca Gilmore

    Rebecca is a Senior Associate in the Specialist PI Department and specialises in Travel litigation. She has over 12 years’ experience in this area, regularly dealing with complex issues of jurisdiction and applicable law. Rebecca’s passion is helping victims gain access to rehabilitation and financial help at a time of vulnerability and often desperation, more acutely experienced when accidents occur abroad. Clients comment on Rebecca’s down to earth and compassionate approach and feel quickly at ease with her.

  • Rebecca Andrews

    Rebecca specialises in group actions on behalf of communities across England and Wales affected by various forms of environmental nuisance as well as homeowners of blighted properties, devalued by road or airport expansions.

  • Phoebe Osborne

    Phoebe joined Hugh James in March 2021 and is a Legal Director in the specialist Asbestos team. Phoebe has acted solely for Claimants in asbestos disease litigation since qualifying as a solicitor in 2013. Since then, she has successfully obtained compensation for a significant number of patients following their diagnoses of mesothelioma, asbestosis, pleural thickening and lung cancer.

  • Pauline Roberts

    Pauline Roberts has over 32 years’ experience of multi-party litigation relating to medical devices, implants and pharmaceuticals. She has also acted on behalf of claimants in all aspects of health care claims. Representing adults, children and claimants without capacity.  Handling claims of moderate value up to claims involving multi-million pound damages.

  • Nicola Sidoli

    Nicola is a Consultant in the Nursing Care Department and is an experienced specialist in health care work, particularly current and retrospective challenges to decisions to refuse NHS funded continuing healthcare to long-term nursing home residents. Nicola was instrumental in developing the Nursing Care Department and now enjoys a managerial role within this team.

  • Nia-Wyn Evans

    Nia-Wyn is a senior associate solicitor with Hugh James. She has specialised in representing military service personnel and veterans bring claims against the Ministry of Defence, with a particular interest in cold related injuries.

  • Michelle Evans

    Michelle Evans is a Legal Director in the niche area of continuing healthcare, and has represented many clients, in both England and Wales, in challenging current and retrospective decisions to refuse NHS funded continuing healthcare to long-term nursing home residents.

  • Mari Rosser

    Recognised as a leader in the field of medical negligence and known for her litigation and client care skills, Mari has been the head of the medical negligence team since 2017.

    Mari has a particular specialism in both child and adult brain injury cases, and fatal accident claims.

    Mari and the team act as the sole advisor for the Community Health Councils in Wales, and due to their high reputation nationally, receive numerous referrals from other professionals, including solicitors and doctors.

  • Lianne Jones TEP

    Since joining Hugh James as a paralegal in 2009, Lianne Jones has specialised exclusively in wills, trusts and probate.  Lianne has a vast experience in advising and preparing wills for a wide range of clients. Most recently, Lianne’s day to day role has primarily focused on the administration of trusts.

  • Kevin Grealis

    Kevin Grealis is one of the UK’s leading litigation lawyers with more than 30 years’ experience in serious and complex personal injury and clinical negligence cases. He specialises in hybrid claims, i.e., personal injury claims where medical treatment worsens the outcome.

  • Shelley Ikram

    Shelley is a Senior Associate in Hugh James Commercial Property team. She has extensive experience in acquisitions and disposals, consortium schemes, and planning and infrastructure agreements.

    Shelley has experience in dealing with both private and public sector clients including Barratt, Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Welsh Assembly Government and The Crown Estate.

  • Sara Tomaszewski

    Sara Tomaszewski is a highly experienced solicitor who’s primary area of practice is within the childcare sector representing various local authorities within the South Wales area, where she undertakes all aspects of proceedings including advocacy. Sara also has significant experience in representing clients in private family law matters.

  • Justin Davies

    Justin Davies has specialised in criminal and regulatory law since qualification in 2007. He has particular experience of regulatory criminal proceedings instituted by Local Authorities and other non-police agencies, and spent time as a specialist regulatory prosecutor at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, advising and prosecuting on behalf of its trading standards, public/environmental health and counter-fraud departments. Justin now practises in regulatory, corporate crime and allied areas, acting for both prosecution and defence. Justin holds (and regularly exercises) Higher Rights of Audience in Criminal Proceedings, which allows him to represent clients before the higher criminal courts.

  • Carlos Land

    Carlos Land is a Legal Director in the Serious Injury Team. He joined Hugh James in 2012. With over two decades of pursing personal injury claims, Carlos is a highly experienced solicitor specialising in cases where clients have suffered life changing and catastrophic injuries, particularly loss of limb and polytrauma.

    Carlos adopts a holistic approach ensuring rehabilitation is prioritised together with interim payments in the early stages of the claim.

    With an empathetic and client- focused approach, Carlos strives to provide clear and straight forward legal guidance to clients while being mindful of the physical, emotional and financial challenges his clients face.

  • Joanne Cromwell

    Joanne Cromwell is Head of Compliance and Quality at Hugh James.

    She is responsible for managing compliance, quality and risk within the firm, ensuring the firm’s continuing compliance with legal and regulatory requirements including the SRA Handbook, GDPR and Money Laundering legislation.

  • Alun Jones

    Alun Jones is Managing Partner of Hugh James, taking the helm in January 2011. He is also chair of the firm’s board of management.

    In his role as Managing Partner, Alun is responsible for formulating and implementing the firm’s business strategy and day-to-day operations.

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