Avocats – England

Steve Howe

Partner Steve’s practice focuses on the prosecution of patent applications before the UK and European Patent Office, where he has developed a wealth of experience handling cases relating to complex technologies and excluded subject-matter. He also advises in connection with designs and trade mark applications before the UKIPO.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Steve Johns

Steve is an experienced infrastructure specialist. His practice covers a range of sectors, with particular focus on PPP/PFI projects and rail. Steve joined Weightmans in 2018 after 17 years with DLA Piper. Steve is expert in the complex contracting and financing arrangements required for large scale infrastructure developments. He has substantial experience of guiding authorities and bidders through the often lengthy regulated procurement process necessary for such schemes, and has an excellent track record of delivery. He also advises on issues arising from operational schemes, such as dispute avoidance and resolution, major variations and early terminations, and has acted on refinancings of operational projects, including advising the Department for Transport on a £1.4bn refinancing of a high profile rolling stock PPP project, and the Project Company on a £400m refinancing of a hospital PFI in the north of England. He has worked on projects involving hospitals, schools, social housing, renewables, energy from waste facilities, highways and street lighting, and emergency services facilities, advising procuring authorities, bidding consortia and funders. Amongst other things, over a period of a decade he advised Leeds City Council on its PFI programme, supporting the Council in successfully delivering seven such schemes. In the rail sector he has advised on rolling stock procurements, franchise competitions and complex regulatory issues, for clients such as the Department for Transport, Alstom, Keolis, Nexus and Merseytravel.

Weightmans LLP

Steve McCombe

Consultant and solicitor-advocate with over 30 years’ experience of resolving construction and engineering disputes, acting for employers, consultants, contractors, specialist sub-contractors, suppliers, funders, insolvency practitioners and insurers. The disputes have involved buildings, roads, sewage and water treatment works, gas mains, pipelines, oil refineries, off-shore oil terminals, tunnels, bridges, roller coasters and military airbases, using negotiations, litigation, adjudication, arbitration and mediation. He is also a Specialist Practice Consultant to the RIBA.

Thrings LLP

Steve Morris

Partner in the Commercial Litigation team. Steve acts in respect of general commercial and corporate disputes for a wide variety of clients, including warranty claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, breaches of contract, fraud, professional negligence and all forms of injunctions. His experience includes: Obtaining judgment for £10.8million and obtaining a finding of fraud on a fraudulent warranty claim; Successfully defending a contractual claim for £58m in an adjudication; Successfully defending an unfair prejudice shareholder claim which was discontinued by the Petitioners after 3 days of the trial; Acting as a High Court appointed Supervising Solicitor in the execution of numerous search & seize injunctions; and Representing clients in over 50 mediations.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Steve Nixon

Partner - Real Estate Group

Walker Morris LLP

Steve Powell

Shoosmiths LLP

Steve Reading

Steve is a Principal Associate in the Solent Residential Conveyancing Team and has over 20 years of experience in residential conveyancing. His teams deals with all types of residential matters including the sale and purchase of house, flats, new build properties, shared ownership property, Transfers of Equity, Help To Buy and unregistered land.

Shoosmiths LLP

Steve Robb

Steve re-joined Weightmans as a Partner in July 2012 having previously been an Associate at the firm eight years before. He now has over 30 years' experience acting for a variety of insurers, loss adjusters, local authorities and self-insured companies. Steve was until recently acting for an insolvent Insurer within the Building Guarantee sector. This involved daily interaction with the Joint Administrators, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Policyholders on matters of complexity and sensitivity. Steve continues to defend employers' and public liability cases, having spent the majority of his career acting in claims of all values across a variety of sectors, predominantly the Retail, energy distribution, Sport and Manufacturing sectors. More recently Steve has been asked to assist on behalf of one of the defendants and its insurers on the “concussion related litigation” being pursued against the national governing bodies by former professional and amateur rugby and football players. He also has specialist expertise in handling product liability claims involving a wide range of products, including contamination in food.

Weightmans LLP

Steve Roberts

Partner

Richard Nelson LLP

Steve Ryan

Joint Managing Partner and Real Estate Partner | Commercial Property Steve advises on all aspects of high-value and complex commercial property and corporate finance transactions. He also enjoys an exceptional reputation in strategic land disposals and has extensive experience of the opportunities and challenges that can arise during deals, particularly when multiple parties are involved. His portfolio of clients is drawn from a wide range of industries and sectors, with niche expertise in healthcare. Steve benefits from close contacts throughout the local and national property, brining extensive advantage to Steve's clients. As one of the founding partners of SA Law, Steve is a business owner and has first-hand insight into commercial imperatives and the need for practical and straightforward advice that demystifies the law for strategic leaders.

SA Law LLP

Steve Thomas

Partner.

HCR Law

Steve Thomas

Excello Law

Steven Appleton

Steven is a Partner in our private client team. His clients include individuals, trusts and business owners, for whom he advises on all aspects of private client law with a particular focus on advising business owners and family business owners on their estate planning and the creation of multi-generation succession strategies. A member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Steven is also former chair of Manchester Law Society’s Private Client Committee. Regarded as a highly technical lawyer with excellent client care skills and an ability to explain complex concepts in an understandable way, Steven specialises in advising those concerned with the responsible stewardship of wealth and philanthropic tendencies. He’s often appointed to act as the independent administrator of complex estates where the existing executors or administrators are unable to work together.

Brabners LLP

Steven Bate

Partner Steven is an expert in construction and engineering law, with extensive experience of commercial dispute resolution. He prides himself on the human touch and supporting clients. He leads a team in Leeds that helps clients successfully resolve disputes including those operating in the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors. His wide range of dispute resolution expertise helps his clients minimise the impact of disputes by acting pro-actively, practically and commercially and by using the dispute resolution technique most appropriate to the issue. He has experience of taking disputes to the highest courts in the land, including the Court of Appeal and House of Lords (as it then was). He has adjudicated more cases than he can remember. He regularly gives upfront and dispute avoidance advice to clients and is an accredited mediator. He has a particular specialism in the NEC standard form of contract and has helped resolve many disputes under its terms, especially compensation event and ground condition claims. He also has procurement experience, and helps his clients avoid or minimise the risk of disputes by ensuring that their interests are properly protected in construction and engineering contractual documents. He worked previously at DWF, Hammonds and Walker Morris and has significant expertise in general commercial matters, thereby strengthening both the construction and commercial dispute resolution offering in Leeds and across the country. His recruitment is part of the strategic growth of the firm in business areas and in key cities, including both Leeds and Sheffield. Legal specialties: construction and engineering law, dispute resolution, arbitration, litigation, adjudication and mediation. He is accredited as a mediator by CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution).

Irwin Mitchell

Steven Baylis

Associate solicitor Steven specialises in education and community care law and cases in the Court of Protection involving mental capacity, best interests and deprivation of liberty. Steven represents families in Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Disability Tribunals, in challenges against local authority decisions including refusals to conduct education, health and care (EHC) needs assessments, challenges against the content of statements of special educational needs in EHC plans and challenging decisions to cease to maintain statements. He also has experience dealing with claims for disability discrimination against schools and colleges, as well as admissions and exclusions cases.

Irwin Mitchell

Steven Bird

Steven Bird is a Consultant in Criminal Defence, Financial Crime and Regulatory team at Hodge Jones & Allen. He specialises in serious fraud, regulatory and criminal cases, but especially:- • serious fraud, including insider dealing, bribery and corruption • murder and other serious offences of violence; • gross negligence manslaughter • large drug cases • confiscation and restraint proceedings • various regulatory matters (including corporate compliance under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, trading standards investigations, health and safety investigations or investigations involving financial regulation) • rape and other serious sexual offences. Steven has been rated as a star individual in the Chambers and Partners directory since 2011 and has been described as having “excellent technical experience and ability, allowing him to identify issues at an early stage”. In various directory entries he has been described as “a true class act”, “a lawyer’s lawyer” and “a superb solicitor whose judgement can be trusted implicitly” and it is said that “he has incredible procedural knowledge, and he prepares and supports fabulously.” He remains in that position in the Chambers and Partners rankings and as a leading individual in the Legal 500 for 2026. Steven has been included in Who’s Who since 2014. In 2016, Steven was admitted to the List of Counsel at the International Criminal Court. He is well known for taking on cases where there has been a potential miscarriage of justice and has a busy appellate practice both in the Court of Appeal and by way of applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. He represents previous victims of miscarriages of justice in claiming compensation from the Home Office. Work Highlights In previous years Steven has defended in numerous high profile fraud cases such as the Guralp Systems corruption case, the Alstom corruption case, two large FCA insider dealing cases, Operation Elveden (involving illegal payments from journalists to police officers for information), land banking frauds, various boiler room frauds, the LIBOR and Foreign Exchange investigations and corruption involving the EBRD. He also represented Jonathan King in his aborted trial in 2018, which collapsed following considerable defence pressure concerning the flawed disclosure regime of the investigation and which was widely publicised during the summer of 2018. The case was stopped by the trial judge as an abuse of process.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Steven Bostock

Steven is a Partner in Mishcon Private and heads up the Immigration group. With over fifteen years’ experience working as an immigration lawyer, Steven provides strategic, commercial, and informed advice to private individuals and organisations. Steven works with clients from all over the world with a specific focus on the United States, India, Europe, China, and South America. Steven is dual qualified as a lawyer in both England/Wales and also the United States and is a licenced attorney with the State Bar of California. Steven advises clients in respect of UK High Net Worth visa categories and is at the forefront of changes to these categories, regularly consulting with the Home Office to shape policy. Steven regularly advises in respect of asylum applications in the UK. Working closely alongside the firm's in-house Extradition group, he assists high profile individuals seeking political asylum in the UK. Steven provides long term strategic advice to help clients obtain ILR status and subsequent British citizenship. He has extensive experience with complex applications that require a solution based approach. Steven plays a pivotal role in the firm’s corporate immigration group, working with the Employment and Corporate departments to provide an integrated client service. He advises in respect of all business immigration issues for both employers and employees including sponsor licence applications, Skilled Worker visa applications, and general compliance issues. Steven also advises on European free movement rights, long residence applications, family-based applications, litigation matters in the Tribunals and claims for Judicial Review often with a human rights based element. He is also a leading authority on Brexit and works closely with the Firm's Brexit working group. In addition to Steven's UK based immigration work he also advises in respect of US immigration issues.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Steven Brown

Partner specialising in claims arising from brain and spinal injuries and particularly those relating to cerebral palsy, kernicterus, and cauda equina syndrome.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Steven Burrows

Director

Fieldfisher

Steven Conway

Partner Steven is an insurance litigation and local authority lawyer with over twenty years’ experience of general insurance work, with particular expertise in defending local authorities, public authorities and insurers against the whole range of personal injury and civil claims brought against them. He is consistently recommended by Legal 500. He specialises in employers' and public liability claims, including claims against highway authorities and claims arising out of accidents at work, stress at work, bullying and harassment. He also deals with claims relating to misfeasance, education, discrimination and social services and defends insurance coverage disputes. He also advises on risk management, insurance procurement, data protection and freedom of information. Steven has worked with the UKRLG on their review of Well-maintained Highways, the Code of Practice for Highway Maintenance Management, he was a Corresponding Member to the review of the Codes of Practice, sits on the Highway Liability Joint Task Group and is a contributing author to the latest edition of Well-Managed Highway Liability Risk.

Keystone Law

Steven Dickens

Partner

Leigh Day

Steven Eccles

Bevan Brittan LLP

Steven Galbraith

Partner; Steven has a broad financing, infrastructure and energy practice including extensive experience in projects and project financing, infrastructure acquisitions and investments and acquisition financing. His clients include major development, oil and gas and operating companies; and private equity, banks and state-owned enterprises.

Slaughter and May

Steven Green

Partner and head of costs team. The Irwin Mitchell costs team is recognised as the largest in-house team in the country, with 90 personnel. All areas of costs work are undertaken, although Steven specialises in recovering costs in high-value personal injury cases. He is a regular advocate in courts at detailed assessment hearings and at costs and case management hearings. He is a regular speaker at conferences on the issues of costs and funding of civil litigation.

Irwin Mitchell