Lawyers in England

Owen Williams

Owen is a Legal Director in our national Construction Group and has over 20 years’ experience of working in the sector. Owen undertakes both (non-contentious) project work and contentious work. Owen advises on procurement strategies, contract drafting and negotiation for stand-alone and complex property/ development agreements and all related construction legal documentation, as well as advising on disputes should they arise. Owen’s work comprises projects procured across a variety of sectors including commercial, infrastructure, retail & leisure, education, healthcare and residential for a large range of clients. Owen’s expertise covers the entire procurement chain, from inception to completion, and he works with a wide range of clients including local authorities, private developers, landlords, tenants, funders, registered providers, contractors, consultants, and sub-contractors.

Blake Morgan LLP

Owen Williams

Owen is a partner in the Commercial & Private Client Litigation team specialising in the main in commercial and corporate disputes.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Paddy Gardiner

Paddy is head of the firm’s disputes group. He handles disputes across a range of sectors, particularly in the media and entertainment industries, including: breach of contract, professional negligence and shareholder claims; complex copyright and trade mark infringement claims; injunction proceedings; and proceedings in the Copyright, Tax and Competition Appeals Tribunals. Paddy has litigated many disputes through to trial, although where possible he seeks to settle them through ADR. He always seeks to deploy a sensible, pragmatic and cost-effective approach for clients. He has represented both corporates and HNW individuals, including PRS for Music, Sir Elton John, U2, PPL and the Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley estates.

Simkins LLP

Paddy Sturman

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Padma Tadi-Booth

Padma is an Employment and Business Immigration Senior Associate who advises on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment and business immigration issues. From a business immigration perspective, Padma has experience in advising on: UKVI checks, record maintenance and penalties, sponsorship of migrant workers, visa applications and immigration related employment issues.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Padraig Cronin

Partner; Padraig has been a partner at the firm since 2001. His previous focus was on public and private M&A, equity capital markets and private equity, and he was based in our Hong Kong office between 2007 and 2011. Since 2017, he has focused entirely on our employment and employee benefits practice. His transition demonstrates the genuine multi-specialist nature of our practice. He brings with him a wealth of experience in advising on cross-over areas between corporate and employment, such as TUPE, restructurings, outsourcings, board-level hirings and firings and executive remuneration. Padraig’s key clients over the years include Cazenove, GE, Prudential and Tata Steel. More recently, he has advised Innogy and Legal & General on employment aspects of significant transactions.

Slaughter and May

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Wikborg Rein

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Macfarlanes LLP

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John has been representing clients who have suffered serious injuries, particularly those who have suffered life-changing neurological conditions, for over 30 years, and has considerable experience in the field of complex personal injury litigation. Clients are at the centre of what he does. He is fully committed to getting to know his clients and their needs and to obtaining funding at the earliest possible opportunity to ensure that they are able to receive the rehabilitation required to meet their life-long needs and to reach their best possible outcome and quality of life. During his career he has acted for hundreds of clients and helped to achieve awards of damages totalling over £200 million. In addition, John has also worked with a number of charities which support individuals who have sustained serious neurological injuries and in 2012 he was recognised for this work by being awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Clients are at the centre of what he does. He is fully committed to getting to know his clients and their needs and to obtaining funding at the earliest possible opportunity to ensure that they are able to receive the rehabilitation required to meet their life-long needs and to reach their best possible outcome and quality of life. During his career he has acted for hundreds of clients and helped to achieve awards of damages totalling over £200 million. In addition, John has also worked with a number of charities which support individuals who have sustained serious neurological injuries and in 2012 he was recognised for this work by being awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Slater and Gordon

Paige Layzell-Payne

Associate, Litigation Paige qualified into the firm’s Litigation team in September 2024, having completed her training at Sinclair Gibson. She works closely with other members of the department to advise on inheritance disputes and Court of Protection applications and regularly collaborates with the Private Client department where probate and trust matters become contentious. Before qualifying as a solicitor, Paige spent five years as a specialist at Sotheby’s. She is developing a niche practice in art law and regularly assists on matters involving high-value artworks and collections. Originally from Bermuda, Paige gained legal experience with a number of offshore firms prior to joining Sinclair Gibson and maintains strong links with offshore practitioners.

Sinclair Gibson LLP

Paige Richards

Solicitor - Court of Protection

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Paige Wood

Associate Solicitor - Court Of Protection

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Pamela Bachu

Consultant

Judge & Priestley LLP

Pamela Collis

Pamela is a consultant at Family Law in Partnership. She is a very senior and highly regarded family lawyer having specialised in family law for over 35 years. Pamela is known for her pragmatic and constructive style and her strategic vision. Pamela’s primary focus is international and domestic family law matters particularly the financial aspects of relationship breakdown, private law children matters (including international relocation) and pre and post nuptial agreements. Pamela regularly deals with jurisdiction issues, cross border tax issues and cases involving complex business valuations. Pamela’s clients include senior lawyers and financial advisers, private equity and hedge fund professionals, business owners and their partners. Many of her clients are international, including foreign trustees and trust companies. Pamela has a litigation background and experience of a broad range of areas of the law including trusts, corporate and employment law. She is known for her financial numeracy and is regularly referred work by senior judges and members of the family law bar because of her depth and breadth of experience and her innovative and insightful approach to finding solutions to complex and challenging issues. Pamela is a qualified collaborative lawyer.

Family Law in Partnership Ltd

Pamela Freeland

Pamela is a partner in Weightmans’ national Speciality Team. She specialises in professional indemnity claims and regulatory matters across many professional disciplines including: - accountants -insurance brokers -IFAs -surveyors -health and safety consultants -administrators and liquidators -architects -civil and geotechnical engineers -fire engineers -solicitors -barristers -property managers and care home operators. An experienced negotiator and litigator, Pamela manages and resolves high value, complex and multi-party disputes. She provides advice and guidance at all stages of a dispute – be that during the initial phase when a client is conducting preliminary investigations for an anticipated dispute or up to and including resolution via mediation, trial, adjudication or arbitration. She adopts a commercial and pragmatic approach to dispute resolution and regularly leads negotiations conducted in person and/or remotely and via mediation. She has conducted cases heard in the High Court, Technology and Construction Court and the Business and Property Court. She is also experienced in dealing with disputes referred to adjudication and arbitration. Pamela sits on the ILG Professional Liability Committee, which comprises members from across the globe. They produce articles and provide guidance on relevant issues across multiple jurisdictions. Pamela has a leading role in the firm’s multi-disciplined team of experts who deal with all aspects of claims against Directors and Officers or business entities. She project manages such claims, acting a key point of contact when input is often required in a number of areas such a regulatory, insolvency, ESG and cyber security. She also acts as monitoring counsel for insurers on claims where individuals and /or entities require separate legal representation. Pamela is also instructed to provide advice on policy coverage across several classes of business including professional indemnity insurance, Directors and Officers/ Management liability insurance, Business Interruption Insurance, Contractors All Risk insurance and EL and PL insurances. She regularly produces articles relevant to professional indemnity and policy coverage and provides training to clients and industry bodies. Pamela is ranked as “Up and Coming” in Chambers and Partners 2025 and as a “Next Generation Partner” in Legal 500 2025, with a client testimonial in the latter referring to her as the “cream of the crop”.

Weightmans LLP

Pamela Thompson

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Pamela Tuxworth

Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney

J A Kemp

Pamela-Jane Riley

Pamela-Jane Riley is a Senior Associate in Enable Law's Personal Injury team. Pamela has a particular interest in acquired brain injury claims for children and assists in managing our relationship with CBIT. Her expertise means she is well equipped to support children and identify their lifelong needs including future residence & care needs as well as more immediate adjustments required around their education and broader support. In addition, Pamela undertakes claims arising from sporting injuries. Some of her recent such cases include representing a client who suffered a brain injury as a result of a negligent tackle in a semi-professional rugby match and a client who suffered polytrauma (including suffering ongoing post concussion syndrome). Further to this Pamela is an avid horse rider and uses her own personal understanding to support clients who have suffered both injuries and financial losses as a result of equestrian accidents. In particular she has specialist knowledge in presenting claims for negligence resulting in loss of value in high value competition horses. An extremely gifted technical lawyer she has been recognised by Counsel, Case Managers and other Professionals for her creative thinking and problem solving. Pamela-Jane Riley - Enable Law

Foot Anstey

Panos Pourgourides

Originally engaged in both contentious and non-contentious work in the commercial shipping sector, but has since focused on yacht work for most of his career. Extensive experience acting for yacht owners and almost all of the major banks involved in the provision of finance for new build projects and second-hand yachts. Also advises on the negotiation of construction agreements, sale and purchase work and other yacht-related regulatory issues.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Paolo Sbuttoni

Paolo is a Partner specialising in technology and data. He is a UK and Hong Kong qualified lawyer with substantial international experience advising clients on digital transformation, data protection, cybersecurity, technology contracting, telecoms, e-commerce and, most recently, navigating new technologies such as A.I. and blockchain. Prior to joining Foot Anstey, Paolo was a partner at an international law firm and based in Hong Kong for 13 years where he advised some of the world’s leading companies in the technology, retail and financial sectors. He has acted for many major global technology companies, particularly cloud and outsourcing service providers. He has a strong focus on the Retail & Consumer sector, advising on the launch of global e-commerce platforms and digital products and services. He has also been heavily involved in the fintech market, particularly advising start-ups, banks and other financial institutions on technology procurement and launching virtual financial services.

Foot Anstey

Pardeep Somel

Pardeep Somel is a Director in the Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She supervises a team of solicitors, trainees and caseworkers that specialise in asylum work, representing victims of torture, human trafficking, gender-based persecution, and detention and removal challenges. Pardeep has extensive litigation experiences in all courts, from the First-tier Tribunal through to the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal. She specialises in working with vulnerable individuals including minors, victims of domestic abuse, torture and trafficking with complex cases. Her broad range of experience includes settlement and entry clearance applications. Pardeep regularly represents detainees held in prison or immigration detention centres as well as those who have been released on immigration bail, by challenging both the Secretary of State’s powers to detain and the removal decision. Pardeep litigates in a wide range of immigration, asylum and detention related judicial reviews including: the failure to provide suitable accommodation within a reasonable time period; the failure to apply detention rules correctly; unlawful decisions to detain to those accepted as victims of torture or trafficking; third country removals; false imprisonment; and delays in processing asylum applications.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Parisa Jones

Parisa Jones is a Partner in the Tax, Trusts, Wills & Probate team. Parisa is an experienced solicitor specialising in wills, powers of attorneys, trusts, estate administration and tax planning. She has acted for a broad spectrum of clients dealing with matters of varying degrees of complexity. Parisa prides herself on the level of service she provides her clients. She is approachable, sympathetic and offers clear practical advice. Parisa tailors her service to her clients’ needs and works quickly and efficiently to deal with matters on their behalf.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Parminder Latimer

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Parmjit Singh

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP