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- Slater and Gordon > E&W – London - Slater and Gordon > E&W – London - Slater and Gordon > No location About us: Slater and Gordon is one of the UK’s leading consumer law firms, committed to delivering exceptional, affordable consumer legal. With more than 85 years’ experience, the firm’s reputation is built on the range of expertise offered by its lawyers and staff, and on the scope of their practical experience. - Serious and specialised personal injury Personal injury: Our personal injury specialists are based across the UK and have expertise in all areas of personal injury such as road traffic collisions, accidents at work, cycling and motorcycling accidents, accidents in public places, sporting accidents and military accidents. Our specialists have a vast amount of experience in all types of catastrophic injury caused by these types of personal injury, such as brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputation injuries, orthopaedic injuries and fatal injuries. Medical negligence: Slater and Gordon has one of the most successful medical negligence teams in the country, with experts who deal with all types of medical negligence claims. With specialist expertise in misdiagnosis and delays in diagnosis, cosmetic surgery, orthopaedic injury, amputation injury, spinal injury, brain injury and birth injury, the department has a formidable reputation. Industrial disease: Our industrial disease team deal with a full range of industrial disease services. We also have a specialist team of experts who deal solely with asbestos related illnesses such as mesothelioma, asbestos related lung cancer, asbestosis and pleural thickening. Its prominence in asbestos litigation results largely from its long experience in the field, having been involved in some of the most important and ground breaking cases in recent years. Abuse law: Slater and Gordon is recognised throughout the media in respect of high profile abuse cases and has been an instrumental voice for victims of abuse, campaigning for changes in the law and as a result their recommendations regarding mandatory reporting of child abuse were adopted in the final report and the draft Victims’ Law. Travel litigation: Experiencing an injury or illness whilst abroad can be a traumatic experience. There may be a language barrier causing difficulty in understanding what’s happening, any diagnosis received and any treatment given. Our team have specialised in accidents and illnesses abroad for many years and understand how distressing it can be and have a wealth of knowledge when dealing with claims for accidents and illnesses which have taken place in a different country. Court of Protection: Our Court of Protection team are extremely experienced in Court of Protection law, acting for the most vulnerable people who lack mental capacity. We are extremely experienced in acting as professional deputy and act for over 300 clients, managing assets exceeding £400m. We also provide specialist advice to lay deputies on their role and responsibilities. We can also provide assistance where there are disputes in the Court of Protection and applying for statutory wills and gifts. - Consumer legal services Employment law: Our large team of highly experienced and skilled employment lawyers are dedicated to providing prompt, practical and authoritative legal advice on employment law issues – offering immediate legal representation anywhere in the UK. Our award winning employment lawyers are experts in every aspect of employment law and are also specialists within individual practice areas, including individuals who are nationally recognised as leaders in their field. Family law: The family team offer a range of services covering divorce and separation, prenuptial agreements, financial disputes, children matters, civil partnerships and cohabitation matters. Our award winning family lawyers are highly trained, experienced and knowledgeable professionals – guiding clients through the legal aspects and implications during a difficult time in their lives. Wills, tax, trusts and probate: Our award-winning team of WTTP lawyers provide tailored solutions to ensure clients’ assets are protected, in accordance with their wishes. Lawyers provide support for vulnerable individuals, their relatives and carers. The team specialise in all aspects of estate planning, including inheritance tax planning and care home fee planning. The team also consists of dedicated estate administrators who solely deal with probate matters to ensure clients receive the highest quality of service. Residential conveyancing: Our conveyancing lawyers deal with all aspects of residential freehold and leasehold conveyancing – including re-mortgaging, transfers of equity and equity release schemes. The team provide simple, clear and open communication at every stage of the transaction – ensuring the process runs as smoothly and as stress free as possible. Dispute resolution: The team specialises in resolving disputes for clients, whether through negotiation, arbitration, mediation or litigation. If a dispute does turn into a litigation case, then our lawyers have specialisms in civil litigation, estate litigation, insurance disputes, landlord and tenant disputes and consumer contract law. Criminal defence: Our criminal defence lawyers have an excellent record in defending criminal charges, with expertise in road traffic defence, regulatory defence, professional conduct and business crime. Their specialist knowledge and experience enables them to maximise the chances of success in defending proceedings in the Magistrates Court, Crown Court and Court of Appeal. Our lawyers have been involved in many high profile and complex cases, and use that expertise and experience on the behalf of clients. Class actions and group litigation: The litigation team are recognised as leaders for upholding the legal rights for individuals and has conducted major claims in product liability (including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and defective goods), provision of negligent financial advice, mis-selling and other market abuses, employment rights/pensions, breach of consumer rights and personal injury. The team has experience in leading high profile consumer and civil litigation cases including Thalidomide, interest rate swap mis-selling and currently the VW group emissions scandal.
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Cardiff Slater and Gordon Haywood House North Dumfries Place CF10 3GA Wales
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Lawyers in this office
Andrew Owen
Andrew is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon’s office in Cardiff and has more than 28 years’ post qualification experience dealing with all aspects of personal injury work including industrial disease claims. · Personal Injury
Ian Wilson
Ian is a Principal Lawyer and supervises the Cardiff Criminal and Misconduct Department. He undertakes a full range of criminal litigation and police misconduct matters, including representing clients at inquests involving policing issues. Ian has undertaken criminal litigation since qualifying in 1983. He has represented individuals in a wide range of cases, including a defendant in an OFT/CMA prosecution of an alleged £10 million pyramid scheme, a defendant in civil proceedings brought by the FCA and clients facing health and safety allegations. In addition, Ian is regularly instructed by the Police Federation of England and Wales and has also presented lectures on topics such as the Advocacy, Criminal Justice Act, Fraud Act, Police Misconduct Regulations and Police Appeals Tribunals. · Criminal Litigation
John Browne
John is a Principal Lawyer and the Head of Industrial Disease at Slater and Gordon in Cardiff. He specialises in claims concerning disease and represents a number of trade unions and is an expert in asbestos related cases and other respiratory complaints. John has successfully run group and class actions to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He has also brought specific and novel points of law to the High Court and Supreme Court Judiciary for consideration. · Personal Injury
Julian Cason
Julian Cason is an Associate Lawyer at Slater and Gordon based in Cardiff, Wales. Although Julian’s specialism covers the whole of personal injury, he has a bias towards industrial disease claims, having particular emphasis on asbestos claims and mesothelioma compensation claims. Julian has successfully represented a broad range of claimants and has pursued a large number of asbestos disease legal actions throughout Wales and around Southampton and the southern counties of England. These asbestos claims include secondary exposure of asbestos dust and/or fibres suffered by family members from relations who worked directly with asbestos materials. · Personal Injury
Juliette Franklin
Juliette is an Employment Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Cardiff. she has practiced in employment law and discrimination law for over two decades. She has particular expertise in dealing with complex discrimination cases under all strands of anti-discrimination legislation, with a particular interest in disability discrinination, sex and maternity discrimination and whistleblowing. Juliette has acted in a number of high profile and ground breaking cases, and is very experienced in collective labour law issues,m in particular in advising individuals, employee representatives and unions in redundancy situations. Juloiette is a regular contributor to both the local and national press and delivers training to clients and fellow practicioners. Regular contributor to BBC Radio Wales. · Employment
Kelly Lloyd-Davies
Senior associate, Kelly Lloyd-Davies is Team Leader of the complex clinical negligence team in Wales. Based in the Cardiff office, Kelly is an experienced and accomplished clinical negligence solicitor who ably heads the team dealing with a wide range of complex clinical negligence cases whilst running her very own extensive case load of complex and catastrophic claims. A senior and respected manager and lawyer, Kelly was part of the Slater and Gordon national team who devised and implemented the business litigation strategy for the management of complex cases across the organisation. Commercially aware, Kelly is a skilled and very proactive litigator. With nearly two decades of experience, she has gained a vast amount of expertise in advising clients on birth injury claims, delayed or missed diagnosis claims, negligent surgery and treatment claims. Renowned across the sector for her professionalism, knowledge of the law, and empathy, Kelly’s clients include adults, adults with a disability, children, and bereaved families. Working closely with numerous charities and organisations, Kelly is an accredited APIL member and has an excellent understanding of current legislation and case law. · Clinical Negligence
Lara Bennett
Senior associate, Lara Bennett is based in the firm’s Cardiff office where she takes on a supportive and supervisory role with team members, and plays a significant part in building strong relationships for business development. Lara advises clients on a wide range of complex clinical negligence claims, including birth injuries, anaesthetic injury, nerve damage, oncology and gynaecology. She also handles claims involving delay or failure to correctly diagnose, hospital and GP negligence claims, and a number of orthopaedic claims including hip and knee replacement surgery. Renowned for her attention to detail and empathy, Lara is meticulous in ensuring the very best results for her clients. She has handled a number of class actions, delivering excellent results and has a particular interest in birth injury claims, as well as fatal accident and amputation claims. The past year has seen Lara complete her application for Law Society accreditation and continue to play a major role in undertaking settlement meetings with NHS Resolution to assist in bringing claims to a timely settlement. · Clinical Negligence
Megan Cavanagh
An experienced clinical negligence associate, Megan Cavanagh has vast experience in successfully dealing with a wide range of clinical negligence claims. Passionate about ensuring the best possible outcomes for those who have suffered serious injuries as a result of clinical negligence, Megan is recognised and often praised by her clients for her approachable and empathetic nature. In addition to managing her individual caseload, Megan provides support on the handling of cases and mentors colleagues to assist in their career development. Megan also takes a keen interest in arranging and attending fundraising events for charities supporting causes impacting her clients and the wider community. Hannah Saxena, counsel at Farrar Chambers recently praised Megan’s work with the following testimonial: “Megan is a delight to work with on tricky clinical negligence cases. She prepares detailed instructions and has considered the complexities involved in each case. She is approachable and very good with clients, even where there are difficult issues to broach. Megan is good at detailed work and has achieved a very good settlement for the clients in cases I have worked with her on”. · Clinical Negligence
Nicholas Collins
Nick is a Principal Lawyer specialising in personal injury claims at Slater and Gordon’s Cardiff office. Nick has a large amount of expertise dealing with serious and complex claims in areas of employers liability, road traffic accidents and occupiers/public liability. He also has a developing expertise in sports claims. Nick regularly delivers seminars and lectures upon all aspects of personal injury work. · Personal Injury
Yvonne Agnew
Yvonne is a Principal Lawyer in our Cardiff office. She has over 25 years' experience dealing with complex and high value clinical negligence cases. She has extensive experience in all types of clinical negligence cases, particularly in relation to high value and complex birth injury, brain and spinal/vascular injury claims. Yvonne is frequently mentioned in legal directories and praised for her ability to achieve high awards of damages in maximum severity cases. She has been involved achieving some of the highest value settlements in the UK, including a recent award worth £19 million. Yvonne's expertise was recognised when she was asked to form part of the working party appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government to advise on the implementation of the Redress Act in Wales. · Clinical Negligence