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- Hugh James > E&W – Cardiff - Hugh James > E&W – Cardiff The firm: Hugh James is a leading law firm, employing more than 680 staff from its headquarters in Cardiff and offices in London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth. Hugh James has been established for more than 65 years and has built its success on offering expert advice through a personal and friendly service to its clients. A highly innovative firm, it creates a competitive advantage through a blend of excellence in client service, bespoke technical systems and the expertise of its people. The firm handles the full range of services across a variety of industries. Business sectors where the firm has particular expertise including banking and finance, property and construction, technology, media and telecommunications, energy and sustainability, creative industries, leisure and hospitality, agriculture, insurance and health care. In the public and not for profit sectors, the firm acts for the Welsh Government and is on the legal panels of most of the local authorities in Wales as well as a number in England. It carries out the full range of public sector work for these authorities, including childcare and inquests. The firm is also well known for its work in social housing and acts for a large number of registered social landlords and registered providers. In addition to its transactional work, the firm has a strong commercial litigation practice that handles disputes across all areas, including commercial disputes, professional negligence, intellectual property, copyright, trademarks and passing off, defamation, landlords and tenant and contentious probate. Unusually for a firm with a comprehensive commercial offering, Hugh James also has a highly rated private client department which advises on the whole spectrum of personal matters, including matrimonial legal advice, will writing and probate, inheritance disputes, and estate, finance and tax planning. The firm also has its own team of independent financial advisors. Another area in which the firm excels is claimant litigation. It has nationally renowned practices in clinical negligence, catastrophic and general injury claims, as well as expertise in running large group actions for industrial disease, product liability and environmental claims. ### Languages - Welsh ### Staffing Figures - 97 Number of UK partners - 318 Number of other UK fee-earners - 620 Total staff
Office locations
London
London
Hugh James 99 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NG
Manchester
Manchester
Hugh James 12 Commercial Street Manchester M15 4PZ North West
Southampton
Southampton
Hugh James 2 Charlotte Place Southampton SO14 0TB South East
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alison Hartley
Partner · Personal Injury
Amber Mitchell
Partner · Personal Injury
Catherine Keeley
Partner · Court of Protection
Gill Edwards
Partner · Clinical Negligence
Hayley Yates
Chartered Legal Executive · Court of Protection
Helen Budge
Partner · Clinical Negligence
James Gratton
Senior Associate · Personal Injury
Jeanne Evans
Partner · Personal Injury
Lesley Herbertson
Partner · Clinical Negligence
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. He is also the lead solicitor in the Wright Medical Conserve metal on metal hip GLO as well as a member of the claimants’ steering committees in both the Pinnacle and Zimmer metal on metal hip GLOs. He is responsible for leading claims concerning various injuries and complaints from medical devices. He negotiated a settlement protocol for patients who alleged visual problems from their cataract remedial intraocular lenses as well as obtaining compensation for one individual who complained of a defective hip prosthesis, and another who suffered injury from a piece of aircraft furniture in a first class cabin. He is currently investigating new claims relating to hearing implants and two other cataract remedial intraocular lenses complaints. Mark has represented victims in many travel disasters, including Zeebrugge, Clapham, P&O Lifeboat accident in Cherbourg, the Maidenhead rail fire and the Ufton Nervet rail crossing accident. He was a member of the Steering Committees for both the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail crashes. He is currently representing the passengers and driver of the Edwards’ Coaches bus crash in Switzerland who are pursuing claims against the Swiss insurers of the lorry that caused the accident. Mark successfully concluded claims on behalf of the foreign victims of an air accident concerning four separate countries and obtained Euro compensation for the foreign victims of an explosion at sea this time involving three separate countries and their jurisdictions. He is helping British citizens with accidents they sustained in various European and African countries as well as providing expert advice to and representation of clients of lawyers from overseas jurisdictions. He represented the first professional rugby player to successfully sue another for an incident arising from an international rugby game when he represented Wales professional forward Ricky Evans in suing Oliver Merle of France following a France versus Wales rugby game. He negotiated substantial compensation for another first class rugby player who suffered a career ending injury after losing an eye in a rugby match. He continues to lecture extensively on sports related injuries as well as harmful products and overseas accident law. Expertise Disaster claims Accidents abroad Product liability Professional negligence Group action claims Mark is former President of Cardiff & District Law Society, past member of the Civil Justice Council and is past secretary of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). He is also one of the two UK Governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ); Co-Chair of their International Practice Section and a Fellow of APIL. Mark was recently accredited by APIL as accidents and illnesses abroad specialist and was appointed an assessor to the same scheme. · Product Liability
Mark Robinson
Partner · Personal Injury
Mark Wilding
Senior Associate · Court of Protection
Matthew Hall
Chartered Legal Executive · Personal Injury
Naomi O\'Rourke
Solicitor · Personal Injury
Nicola Mepstead
Partner · Personal Injury
Peter Renshaw
Partner · Welfare Benefits
Philip Edwards
Philip is a partner in the Serious Injury team specialising in head injury claims. · Personal Injury
Sami Palmer-Latif
Senior Associate · Personal Injury
Sophie Birch
Senior Associate · Clinical Negligence