Avocats – England

Victoria Novikova

Victoria Novikova is a Consultant in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. She specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration and is experienced in complex commercial dispute resolution involving fraud, conspiracy and misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract, partnership and shareholder disputes, interim injunctions, jurisdictional issues and enforcement. Victoria has been working in London since 1999. She is a solicitor-advocate with rights of audience in the High Court. Victoria is also a Russian qualified lawyer and has an extensive experience of acting for Russian speaking clients on a wide range of private and commercial matters. She is a member of the Committee of the British Russian Law Association and is a member of Russian and CIS Arbitration Network. Victoria graduated with distinction from BPP Law School in London in 2004 and holds an LLM in International Business Law from Central European University (1999, Soros Foundation scholarship).

Druces LLP

Victoria Oliver

Victoria is a Partner and Head of the Spinal Injury Team. Victoria specialises in acting for adults and children who have suffered spinal injuries either as a result of personal injury (including road traffic accidents, accidents at work, occupier’s liability claims and fatal accidents) or medical negligence involving both NHS and private clinicians. Victoria has experience in representing clients who have sustained paraplegic injuries and also represented clients who have higher level tetraplegic injuries. Victoria is mindful of the secondary complications suffered by those who are spinally injured such as neuropathic pain, pressure ulcers and bowel and bladder complications. Victoria also has an interest in SCI women’s health. Victoria is passionate about ensuring that her clients receive compensation that properly compensates them for their losses and enjoys the challenge of calculating and proving unusual losses. Wherever possible Victoria aims to obtain early interim payments and rehabilitation for her clients and is experienced in assisting clients with identifying suitable properties for adaption to their individual needs, liaising with case managers and setting up care regimes and therapeutic support. Victoria’s cases of note include: Acting on behalf of a Claimant who sustained a spinal cord injury following a road traffic accident. Victoria was able to work collaboratively with the insurers and obtain significant interim payments in excess of £500,000. Overall settlement was agreed at £10 million to include provision for future loss of earnings, future care and accommodation and future private medical therapy costs. Acting on behalf of a Claimant who sustained a spinal cord injury following a road traffic accident where liability was denied and arguments of contributory negligence raised including failure to wear a seatbelt and prior knowledge that the driver had been drinking. Settlement was achieved at £3 million. Acting on behalf of a Claimant who sustained a spinal cord injury and below the knee amputation following a fall at work. Settlement was achieved at £4.5 million. Achieving a lump sum settlement in excess of £3 million for a below the knee amputation as a result of a motorcycle accident. Liability was disputed. The settlement, which was achieved at a JSM, included provision for loss of earnings (including a significant loss of chance claim), prosthetics and future care and accommodation. Acting on behalf of a Claimant in a liability disputed claim involving a fall from height. The Claimant sustained a brain injury in addition to multiple orthopaedic (including spinal) injuries. Following a settlement meeting the case settled for a six figure sum. Acting on behalf of a Claimant injured in a road traffic accident where liability was heavily disputed and subsequently settled at trial [Bennett –v- Southwell [2013] EWHC 2382 (QB)]. Victoria is an avid supporter of several spinal injury charities; she has run the London marathon in support of the Spinal Injuries Association and volunteers with Horatio’s Garden, regularly attending the garden at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Victoria is also a fan of wheelchair rugby and supports the Stoke Mandeville Maulers.

Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP

Victoria Pigott

Victoria is a Partner in Mishcon Private, a commercial litigator acting for a wide variety of clients including high profile and high net worth individuals, corporations, families and family offices. Victoria advises on complex commercial cases, including director and shareholder disputes as well as partnership issues, general contractual matters and fraud. She is experienced in the issuing and defending of freezing injunctions, asset protection and defending extradition requests. As a key part of her private client work, Victoria acts as a trusted advisor - assisting her clients with any dispute that might arise; including issues between partners (business and romantic), disputes over gifts/loans, problems involving children/their education or issues with friends and family. Victoria sits on the Board of Mishcon Private, being Division Head for three practice areas in the Department; Private Commercial Litigation, Reputation Protection and Art Law. Her role as Divisional Head for these practice areas provides Victoria with access to a wide range of specialities and skill sets, so crucial for ultra high net worth individuals and their diverse requirements. Victoria is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Victoria Redman

Vicki is a partner in the planning and infrastructure team, specialising in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious planning matters. Vicki’s expertise covers planning, environmental, highways and compulsory purchase law. Vicki has advised on many regeneration and infrastructure schemes, including negotiating complex planning and highway agreements. Recent experience includes advising on judicial review and statutory challenges; advising at called-in and recovered appeals advising on planning enforcement matters, the submission and examination of a number of DCO applications for offshore wind, CCGT, biomass and transport related schemes, and providing strategic advice on mixed-use and housing schemes across the country. Vicki also advises on Neighbourhood Planning including Neighbourhood Development Orders.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Victoria Rees

Victoria joined Richard Nelson LLP in May 2016 as a Senior Legal Assistant and is now an Associate. Victoria has experience working on a wide range of professional disciplinary cases, defending healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as teachers. Victoria’s expertise includes advising and supporting medical, dental and nursing students in fitness to practise investigations at university level. She also works with teachers facing professional conduct investigations and hearings before the TRA. Victoria has niche expertise in helping pharmacy students appeal against failure in the pre-registration exam. Victoria specialises in drafting written responses to regulatory investigations, seeking to persuade the regulator that a case does not need to be referred to a hearing. She has an excellent track record in persuading case examiners/investigating committees to dispose of a fitness to practise matter short of a full hearing.

Richard Nelson LLP

Victoria Rylatt

Solicitor at the family team

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Victoria Savage

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Victoria Searle

Victoria is an associate in our admin law, environment and planning team. She advises public bodies on their statutory duties and powers, constitutional and administrative law, vires, decision making and judicial review. Victoria is a specialist environmental lawyer who advises statutory nature conservation bodies, local planning authorities, other public bodies, registered providers, and developers on their environmental and planning obligations. Having worked in the Civil Service for more than a decade before joining Browne Jacobson, Victoria is deeply committed to and a passionate advocate for the public sector. Her public sector clients benefit from Victoria’s unique insight into the sector’s priorities, ways of working and culture and her ability to provide pragmatic advice that reflects the particular challenges they face. Victoria has a particular specialism in environmental law, including environmental assessment, the Habitats Regulations, and SSSIs. Her clients include statutory nature conservation bodies, local planning authorities, arm’s length bodies and NDPBs as well as developers, registered providers of social housing and corporates. Victoria is a natural litigator, and her broad contentious practice includes judicial review, procurement challenges, public inquiries, and statutory appeals. She has acted for clients in the High Court, County Court, Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Appeal, and she has an appeal pending in the UK Supreme Court. Victoria is recognised as a key planning lawyer in the West Midlands by The Legal 500.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Victoria Sherratt

Victoria Sherratt is head of RPC's UK Property Team and is one of the market-leading experts in Property Insurance. Having specialised in property insurance for over 25 years, Victoria has extensive experience of the UK Property Market. She advises on the full range of first- and third-party property policies, including Property Owners, Operational PFI, Contractors All Risk and Jewellers Block, dealing with commercial and industrial risks both within the UK and internationally. She has extensive experience advising on policy coverage and adjustment issues, defence of liability claims and subrogated recoveries ranging from jewellery theft to fires in waste processing, recycling and renewable energy plants.

RPC

Victoria Spencer

Victoria is an Associate in the Family team at Seddons. She joined Seddons as a newly qualified solicitor, having trained at a specialist family law firm in North London. Victoria assists on cases covering all aspects of private family law, including divorce, financial remedy proceedings, and private law children matters. She also has experience assisting on financial settlements that take place outside of the court process. Victoria has experience acting for clients from all walks of life, including high net worth individuals.

Seddons GSC LLP

Victoria Symons

Partner and Head of Corporate with particular expertise in alternative investment structures and funds.

Cripps

Victoria Tait

Senior Associate

Wordley Partnership

Victoria Taylor

Partner

B P Collins LLP

Victoria Tester

Partner and Managing Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Victoria Thourgood

Browne Jacobson LLP

Victoria Towers

Partner, Head of Commercial Real Estate and Co-Head of Industrial and Logistics.

Forsters LLP

Victoria Toy

Victoria is the head of the children practice at AFP Bloom and has worked exclusively in the area of children law for the majority of her career. Victoria’s cases usually involve complex matters which may involve social services, family law act proceedings or an intractable dispute where the children are joined to the proceedings. Victoria is also regularly instructed in cases with an international element. Victoria’s cases often involve other professionals who work together for the benefit of the family such as family or child therapists, mediators and independent social workers. Victoria understands the sensitive nature of children proceedings and will explain all options available to resolve the matter from alternative dispute resolution through to court proceedings and is known for giving straightforward and pragmatic advice. Victoria represented the applicant father in the reported case of RC v FP [2025] EWFC 123 dealing with preserving the anonymity of a child in private proceedings.

AFP Bloom

Victoria Trigwell

Victoria is a Legal Director in our commercial and intellectual property team. She specialises in contract and EU public procurement law and handles a range of commercial contracts including agency and distribution agreements, terms and conditions, collaboration and non-disclosure agreements and advises on all aspects of EU public procurement law and data protection law. She acts for both public and private sector organisations including manufacturers, recruitment companies, technology companies, registered providers of social housing, local authorities and charities. Victoria has a strong background in non-contentious work and has practiced for over a decade. She worked at an international private practice law firm specialising in commercial contracts and public procurement law as well as working as an in-house lawyer for a professional services umbrella organisation before joining us.

Brabners LLP

Victoria Turner

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Victoria Tyson

Victoria Tyson is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She is an award-winning contentious construction lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in large, complex international construction and engineering disputes. She has particular expertise in the FIDIC forms of construction contract and international arbitration. Victoria represents employers (including governments and ministries), international contractors, and consultants. She has had exposure to many high-profile and often politically sensitive international construction and engineering projects. She has been involved in a number of important FIDIC cases including Obrascon Huarte Lain SA v Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Gibraltar [2014] EWHC 1028 (TCC) and [2015] EWCA Civ 712. Victoria is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). She is co-author of 'FIDIC 2017: A Practical Legal Guide'.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Victoria Vallely

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Victoria Walker

Victoria specialises exclusively in family law and has done for 21 years. She helps clients resolve issues related to the breakdown of their relationship. She is passionate about resolving disputes without court proceedings wherever possible. She is a qualified mediator having trained with the Family Mediators Association. Many of her clients are in the process of separating or going through a divorce and are looking for help to resolve the division of their assets and financial provision for their children. She's experienced to deal with high net worth matters and complex assets including pensions and businesses. She regularly acts for parents where there is a dispute about how much time they spend with their children, who their children live with, or where there is a dispute about key issues such as schooling or vaccinations. Some of her clients are seeking help in cases involving the permanent overseas relocation of children as well as temporary removal for holidays. Her clients find her approachable and tell her that they like her practical, no-nonsense advice, understanding what their key objectives are and keeping costs in proportion to the issue. Victoria empowers clients during one of the most turbulent periods of their lives and help them come out the other side in a better situation. She has worked in London since 2007, she joined Moore Barlow as a Partner in 2018.

Moore Barlow

Victoria Ward

Victoria specialises in Court of Protection work, helping vulnerable people and their loved ones make decisions about their property and finances. She deals with the management of day to day financial matters for a large number of deputyship and trust clients, ranging from children to the elderly – including those who have received a damages award as a result of personal injury. This involves assisting with decisions in relation to investments, personal budgets, capital expenditure and coordinating property adaptations tailored to individual clients with disabilities. She also liaises with case managers, personal injury and clinical negligence lawyers, social workers and relatives to establish appropriate care regimes to make best interests decisions. Victoria is experienced in dealing with Court of Protection applications concerning appointment of deputies, replacement of incapacitated trustees for property, making gifts and statutory Wills and contentious Court of Protection applications concerning attorneys and deputies. She is a member of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPA) and an affiliate member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She has recently gained a Distinction in the STEP Advanced Certificate in Advising Vulnerable Clients and was shortlisted for Young Practitioner of the Year at the STEP Private Client Awards in 2015. She is also a member of Irwin Mitchell's Parent Carer Forum - a safe online space to connect with fellow parent carers and discuss the issues that matter to you. Join the Parent Carer Forum on Facebook.

Irwin Mitchell

Victoria Watson

Victoria is head of Capsticks’ national employment practice, leading a team of over 50 specialist employment lawyers in the delivery of advice and support on workforce issues to clients across all our sectors. In addition to her role leading the team, Victoria provides employment law support to clients in the health, social care and third sectors and leads on our employment work with GP practices. Victoria has particular expertise in high profile, sensitive cases involving medical professionals and senior executives, providing advice and support to clients seeking to resolve difficult internal procedures. She regularly acts on behalf of clients in the Employment Tribunal in complex claims of unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract as well as dealing with claims for breach of contract and injunctive relief in the County and High Courts. Her practice includes advising on significant organisational change projects and changes to terms and conditions. Victoria is experienced in providing employment law training for HR specialists, Boards and front line managers and working with clients to prepare for changes to employment law and the practical implications. Notable Cases • Lake v British Transport Police [2007] EWCA • Dathi v South London and Maudsley NHS Trust [2007] EAT • Hussain v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2011] EWHC• Langford v Barking & Dagenham Primary Care Trust UKEAT/0461/13/BA• Kalu v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust & Others [2015] CA• Idu vs East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWCA Civ 1649

Capsticks LLP