Avocats – England

Rick Munro

Consultant

Michelmores LLP

Riffat Yaqub

Riffat Yaqub is a Partner in the Personal Injury team, specialising in high-value claims involving spinal cord injury, brain damage and serious orthopaedic injuries resulting in amputations and fatalities. She is a hugely talented claimant personal injury solicitor with a calm, empathetic and measured approach who gets results. Riffat is known for adopting a client-focussed, holistic approach whilst being committed and a fierce litigator. She is not afraid to take cases to trial when necessary. She acts for vulnerable clients and is a strong advocate for securing early rehabilitation, ensuring her clients can get their lives back on track as quickly as possible. Throughout her career of 26 years, Riffat has developed a formidable reputation for consistently achieving strong results for her clients who have suffered serious life changing injuries arising from road traffic accidents, workplace accidents, accidents in public places and medical accidents. She is dedicated to her clients’ wellbeing to meet their every care, treatment need and secure their future financially. Riffat works effectively with case managers, medics and professionals to achieve the right outcome. Riffat has pursued a number of high-profile cases involving foreign nationals who have been injured in the UK, including a Ukrainian national injured in a workplace accident, three UAE nationals who were viciously attacked whilst staying at a London hotel and a French national who suffered devastating life-changing injuries after being thrown from a viewing gallery. Riffat has set up what is perhaps the first community based neuro rehabilitation package for her brain injured client in Ukraine where there is a complete dearth of brain injury services. When war broke out, Riffat was determined to help her client, to return to the UK and worked tirelessly to get UK authorities to grant visas to her client, his family, and his Ukrainian based community rehabilitation team. Whilst running her complex catastrophic caseload, Riffat also leads and co-ordinates support work with CBIT. Attending meetings with caseworkers, events and fundraising. Riffat is a confident public speaker and regularly presents on HJA’s London Legal Podcast and Facebook Live sessions with CBIT and other groups. Riffat works closely with junior HJA colleagues to provide mentoring and coaching. Riffat works closely with charities including CBIT, Brake, Headway and others. Work Highlights Impressive successes, over last twelve months, include: • French national (Tate Modern). Widely reported event – Claimant thrown over viewing terrace resulting in catastrophic injuries. Involved three potential defendants who all deny liability. Riffat works with French lawyers. Supports her client with ongoing complex rehabilitation for this multi-million pound case. • Swedish National knocked down by a car when visiting London suffered catastrophic injuries. Riffat’s client was incompletely tetraplegic, doubly incontinent, dependent on constant care. Liability disputed throughout. Riffat engaged Swedish solicitor and replaced Guardian when it became apparent they were not acting in her client’s best interests. Settlement: £2.85 million. • Cambridge undergraduate suffered serious injury when knocked off her bicycle. Working collaboratively with the defendant, Riffat employed a Case manager and put together an intensive rehabilitation programme to support Claimant both mentally and physically, to help re-build her confidence, strength and resilience. Settlement: £2.25 million. PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONIALS Dr Jackson, Clinical Neuropsychologist “Without reservation You -Riffat have been outstanding in such unusual and challenging circumstances, with unselfishness, resilience and humanitarianism. It has been a pleasure to work with you, being creative in providing an effective rehabilitation programme partly remotely in the Ukraine. After the onset of war, you were unnerving in finding the best way to arrange the evacuation of your severely brain injured client and his family to the UK. In my 30 years of medico-legal work I have rarely seen a solicitor with such concern for their clients and the capacity to work so insightfully with the Neuro-rehabilitation services.” Dr Mark Holloway, Senior Brain Injury Case Manager “Throughout the whole process Riffat has sought to understand the complexities faced, she has been a committed advocate for her client and his family, and, whilst rightly holding us all to account, has recognised just how difficult this has been. She has liaised collegiately and robustly with her defendant counterpart and has ensured we have a shared vision of what we aim to achieve”. William Latimer-Sayer QC, Cloisters “Riffat cleverly negotiated with the Defendant’s representatives to make further payments under the Rehab Code, which therefore are not subject to the contributory negligence discount. Her dedication and commitment to the client has been truly inspirational, and we are now working to secure the necessary expert evidence to quantify and resolve the claim.” Beth Bartlett, Clinical Manager, Harrison Associates “I worked with Riffat on the case of a young woman who sustained life changing injury to her upper limb. Whilst her tenacity and resilience helped maximise her rehabilitation and recovery potential, having an equally tenacious and resilient solicitor fighting her corner was just as important: Riffat really supported both her client and me as the case manager enabling the young lady to access rehabilitation tailored to her needs, as expediently as possible. Riffat has a terrific manner, is very innovative, calm, emphatic, caring and an extremely bright capable lawyer who is very client focussed. Working so collaboratively with Riffat made the whole rehabilitation process so much easier, not to mention such a pleasure!” Graham Lynch, Defendant Solicitor Riffat adopted a pragmatic and collaborative approach throughout the process including early notification of the claim, dialogue in relation to liability resolution, rehabilitation, quantum evidence and overall settlement. Throughout I found Riffat to be a, pragmatic, skilled negotiator. She was a formidable opponent, very determined, who clearly cared for her client. Riffat was very approachable, highly experienced litigator”.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Rike Dekker

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Rima Gasperas

Rima is a consultant in the commercial property team with a keen focus on the retail sector. Over the past 14 years she has gained experience working with some of the largest retail brands in the UK. Rima has particular expertise in acting for both landlords and tenants, and has a wealth of experience in property insolvency issues, in particular acting for the buyers of two famous high street retailers in administration and which was widely reported in the national press. She also acts on the property aspects of corporate transactions. Recently Rima has become more involved in the property aspects of the renewable energy business and has dealt with leases and land acquisitions specifically related to that sector.

Keystone Law

Rima Mehay

Rima is a partner and specialist employment lawyer with over 15 years’ experience covering a wide range of employment issues. This includes contentious and non-contentious employment law matters such as executive terminations, complex severance packages, restructurings, business protection strategies, unfair dismissal, discrimination, partnership disputes, whistleblowing claims and contract issues. Rima's clients are generally companies with whom she has built long and successful relationships and senior executives seeking advice on all aspects of the employment relationship. Whilst her practice is broad, she has a particular specialism and interest in business protection cases involving team moves and restrictive covenants having advised on a number of cases over the years including one of the leading cases in this area (Tullett Prebon Plc & Ors v BGC Brokers LP & Ors).

Marriott Harrison LLP

Ringo Chan

Associate Solicitor - Dispute Resolution

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Rishi Verma

ABV Solicitors

Rita Bhargava

Rita is a partner in the private client team and leads the mental capacity team. She specialises in private client work and advises on a wide range of matters including wills, administration of estates, power of attorney, trusts and tax planning. Rita leads the mental capacity team and has extensive experience in Court of Protection matters specialising in property and financial affairs

Russell-Cooke LLP

Ritu Sood

Partner and Joint Head of Family

Miles & Partners LLP

Ritwick Ghosh

Ritwick is a Counsel at Signature Litigation specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented corporates and individuals in various sectors including banking, asset management, insurance, other professional services, energy and logistics. He has also advised governments and other public bodies. He has advised clients in response to regulatory enforcement action as well as acting for clients in cross-border litigation and arbitration proceedings.

Signature Litigation LLP

Rob Antrobus

Rob Antrobus Head of Enable Law and partner, Rob is based primarily in our Plymouth office, where he specialises in pursuing clinical negligence claims on behalf of claimants. Rob deals with all claims but has a particular interest in claims resulting from injuries sustained at or shortly after birth, meningitis claims and those arising out of the management of orthopaedic injuries. Rob is a member of the Law Society's Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and a Senior Litigator with APIL. Rob has been awarded the status of Eminent Practitioner. Rob Antrobus - Partner | Enable Law

Foot Anstey

Rob Bratby

Managing Partner of Bratby Law, a specialist English law firm advising on UK telecoms regulation, data protection, payments regulation and transactions. Over 30 years' experience spanning the UK telecoms regulator (Oftel/Ofcom), senior in-house operator roles and partnership at international law firms. Rob advises regulated businesses, investors and technology companies on UK regulatory and commercial matters across four practice areas: Telecoms Regulation: Ofcom engagement, enforcement defence, General Conditions, numbering, switching, spectrum, access, interconnection, Telecommunications Security Act compliance. The practice is grounded in direct experience at Oftel. Data Protection: UK GDPR, DPIAs, controller/processor analysis, international transfers, privacy frameworks, data protection for AI-enabled products, ICO engagement and enforcement. Payments Regulation: PSRs 2017, FCA/PSR, open banking, commercial variable recurring payments, scheme governance, DORA. Rob serves as General Counsel to UK Payments Initiative Limited, the industry body developing the UK's commercial account-to-account payments scheme. Transactions: Commercial contracts, JV structuring, shareholder agreements, network-sharing, MVNO, infrastructure, subsea cable, platform, cloud, SaaS and complex corporate transactions. Clients work with Rob through direct legal advice, specialist co-counsel or fractional general counsel engagements.

Bratby Law

Rob Bridgman

Partner

Gowling WLG

Rob Brooks

Rob qualified as a solicitor in 2013, joined Seddons in 2016 as an Assistant Solicitor, and became a Partner in the Real Estate Finance team in 2022. His areas of expertise include extensive property, mortgage and banking knowledge. Rob acts for a wide variety of bridging and development lenders, and has a proactive and efficient approach to issues. Experience includes: Acting on a bridging facility of £1m on a transaction involving residential, commercial and mixed-use units, as well as the granting of business leases Acting on a development facility of £1.85m for development of 16 flats

Seddons GSC LLP

Rob Collins

Partner

Preston Turnbull

Rob Cork

Robert is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Electronics, Software and Communications team. Rob has extensive experience of drafting and prosecuting UK and European patent applications for electronic and software-implemented inventions, and specialises in cases with technically complex subject-matter. He also advises clients on the management and prosecution of patent applications in other jurisdictions, including the US, China and Japan. He has successfully obtained granted patents for clients across a wide range of technical fields, including networking, telecommunications and broadcasting standards, user interfaces, image processing algorithms, global navigation systems, and satellite technology. Rob works with a wide variety of clients. He always strives to provide clear, commercially-focused advice, and ensures that his clients are fully aware of the commercial implications of a particular course of action before any decisions are taken.

Venner Shipley LLP

Rob Dalling

After more than a decade as a trial lawyer, prosecuting and defending in serious criminal cases, Rob Dalling now serves international companies in sectors including energy, extractive, financial services, medical, hospitality, and real estate across the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States and beyond. With his extensive courtroom experience, Rob’s counsel is invaluable in internal and external investigations into misconduct. He advises companies on financial crime policies and procedures in areas including financial sanctions, anti-money laundering, and anti-bribery and corruption.

Jenner & Block LLP

Rob Eldridge

Rob specialises in employment law and his practice covers everything from employment disputes to the drafting of contracts and policies. He has dealt with a number of disputes in the High Court and Employment Tribunal, including disputes in relation to discrimination, unfair dismissal, and restrictive covenants. Rob has acted for some famous retailers, high-profile fashion brands, recruitment and financial services companies, helping them to protect their reputation. He also advises on employment aspects of corporate and other transactions including mergers, take-overs and outsourcing and is highly experienced in advising on the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”). Rob also assists with day-to-day issues in the workplace such as disciplinary issues, absence management, grievance and the implementation of redundancy programmes. Rob has lectured widely and is co-author of Tottel’s Termination of Employment.

Keystone Law

Rob Evans

When people have been let down by professional and trusted advisors, they will inevitably be nervous about who to trust, and will likely need support to understand what their options are and how best to go forward. Rob finds a solution to help his clients manage and resolve their claims, enabling them to make informed decisions along the way and move on with the things in life that matter. Rob helps a wide variety of clients from major financial institutions to SME businesses and individuals who have been let down by professionals they trusted. People who come to him have often had sleepless nights about their own or their businesses financial security. He provides a path through to the best possible outcome in the quickest possible time helping his clients focus on the important things in life rather than legal complications.

Moore Barlow

Rob Fawke

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Rob Green

Solicitor/Managing Partner dealing with defamation, building disputes, personal injury, insolvency, trespass, breach of contract and professional negligence

Curzon Green Solicitors

Rob Harrison

Bevan Brittan LLP

Rob Holloway

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Rob Jardine-Brown

Rob's main area of practice lies within the shipping and offshore fields. He is a lawyer with a broad range of marine and offshore experience specialising in dispute resolution, mediation, commercial litigation and arbitration. Within shipping his experience covers all aspects of the construction of ships together with their employment, operation and disposal. In the offshore field Rob deals with a variety of commercial and operational issues with particular emphasis on disputes relating to the construction of offshore units including FPSOs, drilling rigs and offshore production and supply vessels. He also lectures on shipbuilding matters.

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