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Board of Management Partners
Alun Jones
Managing Partner
Chair of the Board of Management
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.
Stephen Webber
Partner
Expertise:
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.
Ioan Prydderch
Partner
Head of Division: Business Clients
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. He has extensive experience in the construction and engineering sector and has acted in a number of high value and complicated disputes.
Gwen Morgan-Evans
Partner
Head of Division: Individual Clients
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.
Richard Locke
Partner
Head of Dispute Resolution
Expertise:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Badly Invested Care Funds
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Defamation
- Dispute Resolution
- Health & Safety
- Insolvency
- Intellectual Property
- Negligent Accountants
- Negligent Architects
- Negligent Barristers
- Negligent Financial Advisers
- Negligent Solicitors
- Negligent Surveyors
- Professional Negligence
- Rail
- Technology & IT
- Under Settled Brain or Spinal Cord Injury Claims
- What is Professional Negligence?
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
Partner
Expertise:
- Class Action Litigation
- Defined Benefit Pension Transfer
- Energy Mis-Selling Claims
- Environmental Compensation
- Environmental Nuisance
- Land Compensation Act
- Mis-Sold Annuity Claims
- Mis-Sold Investment & Financial Claims
- Mis-Sold Pensions
- Personal Injury Compensation
- Property Investment Scams
- Road Development & Expansion
- Runway Development & Expansion
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.
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Diane Brooks
Chief People Officer
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.
Gemma Rowe
Head of Marketing, PR & Communications
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.
Joanne Cromwell
Chief Quality & Governance Officer
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 Standards and Regulations, GDPR and Money Laundering legislation.
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