Leigh Day — England

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- Leigh Day > E&W – London - Leigh Day > No location Leigh Day is a law firm established to combat injustice. Championing the underdog, the firm stands against entities and their wrong doings. Through hundreds of cases, Leigh Day secures compensation, influences legal changes, and restores justice. Comprising 800 passionate individuals, Leigh Day welcomes those with just causes, assuring them access to objective, professional advice, with a commitment to an open, honest relationship. Our promise is to afford ordinary individuals the same quality of legal advice as state bodies, insurers and multinationals. Regardless of where injustice unfolds, Leigh Day stands as an unwavering force, ready to fight relentlessly for justice. - Types of work undertaken Personal injury: The team acts for clients who have suffered severe and often life changing injuries. This includes cases of severe orthopaedic fractures, life changing injuries such as limb loss and brain and spinal injuries and representing a very large number of bereaved families. The cycling team handles hundreds of claims every year and is the exclusive provider of legal support to British Cycling and British Triathlon members. Industrial disease: The industrial disease team at Leigh Day not only represent clients who have developed an illness, usually from negligent exposure to asbestos in the workplace, but they also have shaped the law through landmark rulings, including from the Supreme Court, which improve the rights of all negligence victims. Administrative and public law: The has one of the leading claimant judicial review and public law practices in the country. The firm undertakes a large number of high-profile judicial reviews for charities and civil society organisations including challenges to immigration policy, the roll out of Universal Credit, multiple major infrastructure projects, arms exports, trade policy and failures to prosecute bribery and corruption. The firm also represents individuals seeking to address wrongs in fields ranging from immigration and health and social care to planning law. Clinical negligence: The firm has 36 lawyers representing clients who have been injured, or the families of the deceased, through negligence in a healthcare setting. New head of department Suzanne White is a trustee of the Patients Association and the team works with many other organisations campaigning for patient safety across the NHS and in private practice. Employment: The employment team at Leigh Day represents individuals in the most complex and high value claims covering all aspects of employment and discrimination law. It also acts for around 80,000 supermarket workers in some of the largest equal pay group claims in history, as well as bringing claims challenging discriminatory changes to public sector pensions. The team has also pioneered legal challenges against gig economy employers and continues to represent thousands of gig economy workers. Environment: The firm specialises in public law challenges to decisions impacting upon the environment as well as tortious claims resulting from exposure to pollution, including radiation, chemicals, pesticides and sewage in the sea. The firm regularly acts in challenges to major infrastructure projects including Heathrow, Bristol and Southampton Airports, major road projects including the Stonehenge and rail projects including HS2. The firm successfully challenged the government’s Net Zero Strategy in 2022. The firm represents Wild Justice, a group led by the naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham, frequently litigating to protect wildlife and ecosystem. The firm also represents communities abroad who suffer environmental damage as a result of the acts of UK based companies, including oil spills in the Niger delta and mining in Zambia. Human rights: The human rights department offers specialist expertise in a wide range of human rights and civil liberties issues including: claims against the police, immigration, support for migrants, unlawful detention and false imprisonment, healthcare and social care rights, inquests and bereavement, welfare rights, prisoners’ rights, the abuse of children and vulnerable adults, data rights and confidentiality, planning and the environment. The team has an outstanding reputation for its work in all these areas and has been ground-breaking in its consideration of the impact of human rights on health and social care law. International: The firm has pioneered legal developments in multi-party cases on behalf of claimants in the UK and overseas, ensuring that large corporations based in the UK face justice in the UK over the actions of their subsidiaries in developing countries. The firm has also been at the forefront of litigation against the UK Government for alleged human rights breaches arising from the UK’s involvement in overseas military operations and the global ‘war on terror’. In addition, the firm has been at the vanguard of modern slavery litigation. The department’s cases emanate from across globe, in particular Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. Over the past 30 years Leigh Day has provided access to justice to thousands of individuals who would otherwise have gone without redress. The work of the international team has established numerous landmark legal precedents, including Supreme Court authority, on issues as diverse as parent company liability and jurisdiction, the remit of English courts to adjudicate on the UK’s actions overseas, the interplay of UN Security Council Resolutions and the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and the duty of care owed to those serving in the British military abroad. The team’s successes go beyond securing compensation, such as in 2018, obtaining an unprecedented public apology from the UK Government for its role in the ’detention, rendition and suffering’ of its clients Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar. Product liability: The department has been involved in some of the most important product liability cases of the last 25 years. Claims include those against manufacturers of home appliances, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food products. They have also acted on behalf of claimants injured in clinical trials. They acted for the family of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse who died following an allergic reaction. The high-profile case led to a change in the law on ingredient labelling which is now known as “Natasha’s Law”. The team are currently acting as the joint-lead lawyers, in the emissions defeat device group litigation against Volkswagen in the UK believed to be the largest group action in the UK. ### Staffing Figures - 86 Number of UK partners - 279 Qualified Lawyers (including partners and legal execs) - 308 Fee-earners (including paralegals and qualified fee earners)

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Alison Millar

Partner · Human Rights

Amy Chater

Partner · Personal Injury

Andrew Lord

Partner · Human Rights

Andrew Stinchcombe

Partner · Personal Injury

Angharad Vaughan

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Anna Moore

Partner · Human Rights

Benjamin Burrows

Partner · Human Rights

Chris Benson

Partner · Employment

Clare Campbell

Road traffic accidents abroad, aviation accidents, cruise accidents, workplace accidents abroad, group illness litigation, accidents in America, claims arising out of the Package Travel Regulations, fatal accidents, Inquests, consumer group actions. · Personal Injury

Colin Murphy

Partner · Personal Injury

Daniel Easton

Partner · Personal Injury

Daniel Leader

Partner · Litigation

Emma Satyamurti

Partner · Employment

Emmalene Bushnell

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Ewan Tant

Partner · Personal Injury

Gene Matthews

Partner · Human Rights

Harminder Bains

Partner · Personal Injury

Ida Aduwa

Senior associate solicitor · Human Rights

Jamie Beagent

Partner · Public / Administrative Law

Jill Paterson

Partner · Product Liability

Kevin Johnson

Partner · Personal Injury

Lauren Tully

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Liana Wood

Partner · Employment

Maria Panteli

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Martyn Day

Senior partner · Personal Injury

Matthew Westlake

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Michael Newman

Partner · Employment

Michelle Victor

Partner · Product Liability

Nath Gbikpi

Senior Associate · Immigration

Nichola Marshall

Partner · Litigation

Nick Webster

Partner · Employment

Nigel MacKay

Partner · Employment

Rebecca Ridgeon

Senior Associate Solicitor · Clinical Negligence

Richard Meeran

Partner · International Personal Injury

Ryan Bradshaw

Partner · Employment

Sally Moore

Partner · Personal Injury

Sanja Strkljevic

Partner · Clinical Negligence

Sapna Malik

Partner · Personal Injury

Sarah Westoby

Senior associate solicitor · Human Rights

Sean Humber

Partner · Human Rights

Stephanie Hill

Partner · Human Rights

Stephen Jones

Stephen has specialised in clinical negligence work since qualification, with particular expertise in cerebral palsy, spinal and amputation cases. Over many years has consistently secured million pound plus awards: since joining Leigh Day in 2015 these include awards of £13m (spinal claim, 2021), £10.677m (cerebral palsy, 2021), £4.05m (spinal claim, 2025), £2.25 (spinal claim, 2019) and £1.8m (fatal claim, 2025); recently secured interim payments of £5.58m on account of damages in ongoing cerebral palsy claim, and damages of £850,000 for an avoidable forefoot amputation. Previously acted for Denise Hendry, wife of former Scotland footballer Colin Hendry, obtaining then highest award ever made in a cosmetic surgery case. Stephen has a specific interest in Inquiry and inquest work: represented over 100 patients at Ashworth Hospital in Fallon Inquiry; he acted as Solicitor to Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry (“Alder Hey Inquiry”) and Redfern Inquiry into tissue sampling (“Sellafield Inquiry”); and regularly represents families personally at inquests. · Clinical Negligence

Steven Dickens

Partner · Personal Injury

Suzanne White

Partner · Clinical Negligence

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Tessa Gregory

Partner · Human Rights

Vijay Ganapathy

Partner · Personal Injury

Yvonne Kestler

Senior associate solicitor · Human Rights