Lawyers in England

Stephen Ireland

I am a Senior Associate in the Contentious Trust and Probate Department and I lead the Chichester team. I deal with a mixture of disputes arising from wills, trusts and the administration of estates which can also involve powers of attorney. I represent executors, beneficiaries, trustees and other interested parties (such as family members) in both bringing and defending claims. This includes arguments about the validity of wills, mental capacity, undue influence, claims for financial provision, breach of trust, removal of executors, intestacy and many others. The majority of cases are brought before the County Court or High Court, but I do represent clients in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court as well as the Court of Protection. Most claims are settled by negotiation or some form of alternative dispute resolution such as mediation. I am listed as a key lawyer in the Legal 500 and I am listed as an Associate to Watch in the Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2023. I am a full member of ACTAPS and a Director of the Chichester Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Irwin Mitchell

Stephen Jarvis

Head of Corporate and Commercial & Partner

Greenwoods

Stephen John

Partner

Davitt Jones Bould

Stephen Johnson

Stephen is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Chemical and Life Sciences team. Stephen has a wide range of experience across all aspects of patent law, from the drafting, filing and prosecution of British, European and international patent applications, to working on opposition and appeal cases before the European Patent Office and undertaking infringement clearance tasks. Throughout his career, Stephen has specialised in new technologies across a variety of chemically orientated fields. A particular focus of his interest concerns synthetic organic, medicinal, and process chemistry, pharmaceutical formulations, polymorphic forms, and the medical uses of small chemical entities. Stephen is also familiar with new technologies across a variety of other chemically orientated fields, having acted as agent for patent applications pertaining to lubricants & fuel oils, oil well compositions, polymers, catalysts, organic semiconductors, lithium iron battery technologies and medical devices.

Venner Shipley LLP

Stephen Johnstone

Stephen is a specialist regulatory criminal defence lawyer and advises companies, directors and individuals on regulatory compliance across a range of sectors including advertising and marketing compliance (including sales promotions, prize promotions and Gambling Act compliance), anti-bribery legislation (including customer and third party incentive schemes), food and drink; tobacco law, inquests, health and safety, fire safety and product safety. Stephen’s experience includes: regularly advising retail, food and drink and automotive clients on advertising and marketing compliance; regularly advising an international tobacco product manufacturer on tobacco laws, hybrid products and e-cigarettes; advising retail and automotive clients on customer and third party incentive schemes; advising a major building and plumbing merchant on sales promotions and prize promotions; representing and advising corporate and individual clients at various Inquests; advising retail, telecommunications and automotive clients on product labelling, CE Marking and EU conformity; and assisting in corporate transactions by carrying out regulatory due diligence on target companies. Stephen is a member of the Health and Safety Lawyers' Association and the Food Law Group.

Shoosmiths LLP

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.

Leigh Day

Stephen Kenny

Partner

Gowling WLG

Stephen Ketteley

Steve is a highly-regarded regulatory adviser to the global gambling industry. He is trusted by many of the industry’s leading operators and suppliers to help them navigate the challenges they face. “It’s remarkable how much the gambling industry has been through since I began advising in this sector more than 15 years ago, and how much my role has changed as a result. Today, much of my time is spent acting as a sounding board, providing a quick, effective assessment of the relevant risks for clients as they make some of their most difficult decisions. I advise operators on their interactions with regulators, be that in compliance or enforcement cases. I help industry participants construct and manage jurisdictional risk. I guide stakeholders in assessing and mitigating risk, generally, that attaches to their participation in the gambling space. The most rewarding aspect of my role is being trusted by many of the leading decision-makers in the industry. A client recently commented they would turn to me when “I want to really press something in a new area with a lot of uncertainty”.”

Wiggin LLP

Stephen King

Admitted as a solicitor in 1986. Joined Mills & Reeve in 1989, becoming a partner in 1993. Lead role in the development of the firm’s defence liability work in the health sector. Managing a respected and acknowledged national team specialising in medical malpractice, product liability and health sector liability work. The work sits within the firm’s general insurance subsector which is part of the diverse work of the wider insurance group. A previous member of the Editorial Board of the Sweet and Maxwell publication ‘Journal of Personal Injury Law’. He has written and spoken widely on his subject area. His clients are insurers of risks arising in the health sector, from clinical trials and product manufacturing to hospital groups, care providers and the medical professions and their insurers. He oversees the work of the firm’s claims handling unit, or CHU ( a TPA offering), and its work on the claims solutions the firm offers to its insurer and corporate healthcare clients. He also participates in the firm’s 24/7 emergency out of hours helpline ‘Mills & Reeve First Response’. Often advising on coverage issues, his work and that of his team includes class actions, public enquiries and judicial review as well as catastrophic injury cases, and high profile cases that are novel or repercussive in terms of reputational protection.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Stephen Kingsley

Stephen is a commercial property solicitor with a particular interestin Town & Country Planning matters, the environment and climate change. His expertise spans the full spectrum of property legal work and he has advised on all aspects of the acquisition and disposal of both freehold and leasehold property. Stephen’s current client base comprises a number of major retail clients, nursing home operators and a Russell Group university. He has also acted on behalf of several telecommunications operators, having been responsible for the acquisition of over 4,000 radio base stations. Stephen has conducted a number of major planning inquiries, acting on behalf of both retail and telecommunications clients. In addition to his commercial practice, he also undertakes residential conveyancing work on occasion. Stephen has authored a chapter on property issues for a textbook on telecommunications law and is a regular contributor to the press. He has also lectured at a number of in-house client seminars.

Keystone Law

Stephen Lane

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Stephen Lewis

I specialise in all aspects of commercial real estate work, particularly in acquisition and disposal work, both freehold and leasehold, primarily in relation to the retail and leisure sectors and with general landlord and tenant matters. My additional areas of expertise include investment, secured lending, telecoms, development and portfolio management. I am very passionate about real estate and the wider property market and have always enjoyed working collaboratively and positively with my clients, colleagues together with the other side and their professional team to ensure a positive outcome for everybody. The beauty and satisfaction of a property transaction is that in the main it is non-confrontational and both parties therefore have similar objectives to achieve a desired result with which they are both happy. I also really enjoy the fact that I operate in such a fast moving and ever changing sector and have the opportunity to regularly help my clients to get their real estate deals done. I find it immensely satisfying on deals to be able to regularly see the buildings that formed part of those transactions as there is no doubt that this gives you a real personal connection to those properties. I act for clients ranging from family offices, private banks, entrepreneurs, private investors (both onshore and offshore) and quoted companies to leading operators in the retail and leisure sectors . I have always had a real interest in the leisure market whether it be restaurants, gyms, bowling alleys, cinemas or casinos and am a member and director of the Leisure Property Forum which is the leading industry body.

Fladgate LLP

Stephen Lewis

Freeths LLP

Stephen Lupini

Associate Stephen handles patent work in the mechanical, electrical and consumer product fields and has particular experience of working with fuel cells, medical devices, oil drilling equipment, and carbon and graphene based technologies.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Stephen Mackin

Hill Dickinson LLP

Stephen Mackin

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Stephen Manson

Consultant

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Stephen Matthew

Stephen works in our Government and Infrastructure team and specialises in joint ventures, regeneration, procurement and outsourcings. He acts for public bodies and contractors and has experience in overseas markets (notably public private partnerships). Stephen manages teams across various disciplines in delivering major projects.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Stephen Matthews

Stephen is a finance lawyer focussing on frontier and developing markets. He has expertise in debt transactions across a wide range of products, sectors and geographies, including significant experience of financings across Sub-Saharan Africa, having previously been based in Nairobi, Kenya. Stephen advises a wide range of financial institutions and other parties, including bilateral and syndicate bank and non-bank lenders, private creditors, borrowers, guarantors, bond issuers, sponsors, investors, sub-participants, facility agents, security trustees, lead arrangers and underwriters, hedge providers, lessors and development finance organisations.

Keystone Law

Stephen May

Partner

Fieldfisher

Stephen McCarthy

Stephen advises clients on a wide range of property matters, with a focus on commercial leases, landlord and tenant estate management, and complex property transactions. He manages clients’ property portfolios, handling lease agreements, rent reviews, licences, dilapidations, renewals, and dispute resolution. Stephen provides practical, commercially-focused advice to ensure property issues are resolved efficiently and effectively.

Flint Bishop

Stephen McColgan

Stephen has been a qualified as a solicitor for over 35 years. He has been a partner in a variety of transactional property roles based in Bristol and Somerset with Clarke Willmott, Davies and Partners and Michelmores. Stephen’s passion and expertise are in advising landowners, developers and investors in residential-led and mixed-use schemes. He has worked with several of the top 10 PLC housebuilders, including on significant town extensions with multimillion-pound land assemblies. He has advised design-led SME housebuilding entrepreneurs to realise their projects, and has also acted for landowners, particularly those unfamiliar with the development process, to help them understand transactions with developers and investors, to add value leading to sales of development land. Expertise: Promotion of land, disposal, acquisition, preparation for development through the planning process and arranging the infrastructure and utilities agreements Site set-up preparations for disposal, as both serviced sites or individual plot sales Secured acquisition and development finance from UK and foreign banks and investors Advising SME housebuilders in securing finance from Homes England

Acuity Law

Stephen McGlennan

Steve is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with in-depth understanding of business issues, having been the Chief Executive Officer of two businesses. During his tenure as the CEO of a leading aerospace business, the company valuation increased from £6m to £100m, so he fully understands all the challenges and obstacles faced by growing businesses. Using this experience, Steve has a particular focus in working with start-up and other growth companies; businesses in the aerospace and defence sector; technology companies and China/UK business transactions. Steve also has significant non-contentious experience in the insurance and wider financial sector.

Keystone Law

Stephen Moller

Partner

Fieldfisher