Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

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Partner

Solicitor

Solicitor

Joint head of Court of Protection Department and Partner in the firm. Alexandra specialises in supporting clients who have sustained injuries through accidents, clinical negligence or mismanagement at birth. She is well known for her international client following, having dealt with Deputyship and trust matters in various jurisdictions, including the PRC and Hong-Kong. Alexandra supports many European clients, with on-going client links in Poland, France, Italy and Switzerland.

Ali Malsher

Partner on the Injury and Medical Claims team. A former nurse who specialises in surgical, cardiac and emergency medicine cases, including sepsis. Uses medical background to unravel inconsistencies in medical notes and is able to translate to her clients in layman’s terms. She is the author of Medical Records for Lawyers and frequently lectures on medical and legal topics. Long standing Law Society Clinical Negligence panel member.

Amanda Hopkins

Partner

Amy Wedgwood

Senior Associate Solicitor

Andrew Weir

Partner, Head of Conveyancing

Andrew Brookes

Partner handles all types of property law particularly residential housing; also relevant judicial review.

Anees Hussain

Solicitor

Aneil Balgobin

Partner, Head of Employment

Partner

Associate Solicitor

Senior Associate

Partner, is a strong and adept litigator specialising in contentious probate work and professional negligence, with a niche in property fraud.

Camilla Chellapermal

Solicitor

Carmine Procaccini

Solicitor

Caroline Bowden

“Recognised as being ‘a lead both in the practice and policy of mediation’, as well as being ‘a committed, dedicated and highly skilled mediator’ (from the first Family Mediation Legal 500). Caroline’s approach is known as robust and practical whilst also warm and friendly. Her experience covers complicated financial settlements, children arrangements and the full range of issues affecting married and unmarried couples. Caroline has sat on The Law Society’s Family Law Committee since 2017 and is a Director of the Family Mediation Council (FMC), as The Law Society’s representative. She was the FMC representative on a group combining members of the Family Procedure Rule Committee and Ministry of Justice officials in 2022, examining new rule changes to encourage early dispute resolution. She was previously appointed to the Government’s 2014 Mediation Task Force. Caroline is a member of the Family Solutions Group and a contributor to their November 2020 report: “What About Me”. She is a previous winner of the Family Law ADR Practitioner of the Year and writes articles and commentaries.”

Christopher Hatton

Solicitor

Clifford Tibber

Partner in dispute resolution team dealing with commercial disputes for corporate and private clients. Wide experience including contractual and property related disputes including recovery of investments in fraudulent property transactions. accredited mediator. Higher Court Advocacy Rights (Civil)

David Emmerson

Partner in the family team focusing on the children and financial aspects of divorce and relationship breakdown.

David Marshall

Managing partner of Anthony Gold since 1997. Principal area of practice is claimant personal injury and medical negligence with particular expertise in brain injury cases and clinical negligence; also undertakes commercial and employment work.

David Wedgwood

Partner specialising in commercial litigation, including contentious trusts and probate, inheritance act claims, professional negligence, private client litigation, financial and welfare and property and affairs deputyships, contentious property and affairs deputyships, contentious Court of Protection proceedings and civil and commercial fraud.

Donovan Lindsay

Partner

Eleanor Solomon

Solicitor specialising in all aspects of housing work including disrepair, Fitness, homelessness and possession cases. Specialises in group Claimant actions for disrepair and nuisance, especially for large building projects being poorly managed. Also specialising in judicial review, particularly in relation to housing cases, TOLATA and newbuild cases. Has developed a specialism in litigation relating to fire safety.

Eleanor Kyle

Solicitor

Emma Tante

Emma is a Solicitor and Partner at the firm predominately specialises in providing Court of Protection litigation support to leading personal injury and clinical negligence litigators including drafting of expert evidence for High Court Proceedings. Emma manages complex and high value compensation awards for individuals who have suffered complex injuries and who are based both in the UK and internationally. Emma deals both with Deputyship management and Personal Injury Trusts and has experience in dealing with both contentious and non-contentious Court of Protection work.

Fiona Lyon

Partner at Family team

Freya Mansfield

Solicitor

Giles Peaker

Partner specialising in housing, public law and residential and commercial leasehold disputes.

Grainne Feeney

Partner in the Court of Protection team based in the London Bridge office. With over 20 years’ experience, she is a specialist in non-contentious Court of Protection matters, including deputyships for people who become mentally incapacitated through illness or personal injury.

Hema Vekaria

Solicitor

Ian Peters

Partner

Ian Mitchell

Ian leads Anthony Gold’s thriving leasehold services team. With over 10 years’ experience acting for leaseholders and freeholders in freehold acquisitions and lease extensions, few combine the same level of skill and tenacity on contentious and non-contentious enfranchisement work. Ian is a formidable Leasehold Reform Act specialist in: lease extensions and freehold acquisitions under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and Leasehold Reform Act 1967; service charges issues; block management issues; right to manage claims; missing landlord cases; leasehold houses.

Inbar Rabinovitz

Associate Solicitor

Jackie Spinks

Head of the Injury and Medical claims team, Jackie is a catastrophic injury expert specialising in high value personal injury claims, particularly those involving serious traumatic brain injury and fatal accident claims. Jackie also delivers personal injury lectures and webinars to an expert witness audience for Bond Solon and has spoken at their annual "Expert Witness Conference". Renowned for her expertise in child brain injury, she is regularly recommended by barristers and medical experts in this field.

James Piers

Partner on the Injury and Medical Claims Team

Jenny Evans

A specialist housing solicitor committed to social justice. Jenny is a tenacious fighter who uses the law to find practical solutions for her clients’ problems. Jenny specialises in all aspects of housing and property litigation, including advising and representing tenants on possession claims, disrepair, poor housing conditions, defective new build homes and TOLATA claims. Jenny has particular expertise in complex disrepair and nuisance, including acting in group actions.

Jenny Kennedy

Jenny Kennedy is a Partner on Anthony Gold’s Injury and Medical Claims team. A complex brain, spinal and amputation expert, Jenny is well known for representing foreign national clients injured in the UK as well as British nationals injured abroad. She settled the first reported case involving indexation of periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction and secured a verdict of unlawful killing before a UK Coroner for the family of a mother killed whilst on holiday In South America. Described as "one of the most respected PI claimant lawyers in the country" her expertise includes dealing with all the associated elements of catastrophic injury litigation and managing the needs of clients with issues associated with significant head injury. She has a medical background, having qualified as a psychiatric nurse, and her clinical negligence expertise includes a wide range of claims of complexities with a special interest in psychiatric and orthopaedic injury cases.

Jock Mackenzie

Partner on the Injury and Medical claims team. Dr Jock Mackenzie has a broad clinical negligence practice and, due to his background as a hospital physician, he has a particular interest and expertise in cases involving complex medicine and rare medical conditions; brain injury (both adult and child, including birth injuries and cerebral palsy); neurological, neurosurgical and spinal injuries; emergency and intensive care; and general internal medicine. His current brain injury work includes a case involving an anaesthetic incident in a private hospital, a missed radiological diagnosis of a treatable vascular brain abnormality, a significant brain injury following the delay in diagnosis and treatment of post-operative sepsis and a twin cerebral palsy case. His spinal work includes spinal infarct from a cardiac arrest due to a delay in diagnosis of a pulmonary embolus and significant spinal injury from use of an experimental spinal implant. His other work involves delays in diagnosis of post-operative sepsis, delay in diagnosis of cancer and Group B Streptococcus meningitis. Recent successfully concluded cases include a near 7-figure sum due to the death of a family member from the very rare condition macrophage activation syndrome and a 7-figure lump sum and periodical payment settlement for a woman in a minimally conscious state resulting from brain damage due to an air embolus from a central line. Jock has considerable experience in acting for clients who are resident abroad, including in the U.S., the Middle East (in particular Kuwait), India and Europe, especially clients who come to England specifically for specialist private medical treatment. He also has significant experience of treatment in the private sector, especially cases involving foreign nationals being treated in UK private hospitals, surgical cases and cases involving fatal injuries caused by medical care. Two of Jock’s more recent concluded successful private medicine cases include two seven figure sum settlements: one for an adult with PVS (persistent vegetative state) from the Middle East due to negligent anaesthetic care and the other for an Eastern European businessman who suffered with septic shock due to a negligent delay in diagnosis of post-operative peritonitis. He was also successful in 2019 in the High Court in a novel private medicine case involving Impulse Control Disorder due to Ropinirole for Parkinson’s Disease (Kennedy v Frankel).

Jon Nicholson

Consultant

Joy Drummond

Partner, Employment Law Solicitor

Katherine Browne

Associate Solicitor

Kim Beatson

Head of department; financial specialist with a particular interest in cohabitation issues, pre-nuptial and pre-civil partnership agreements; highly experienced mediator and collaborative lawyer; accredited by Resolution in high-value cases and cohabitation and also by the Law Society.

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Leasehold Executive

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Solicitor

Consultant

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CILEX

Partner, Court of Protection, Education and Family departments. Specialises in Court of Protection practice, managing the finances and welfare of vulnerable adults and children, as well as supporting children and young people who have special educational needs . Nicola also specialises in Family practice with an emphasis on finance and complex children cases. Nicola is a qualified collaborative lawyer and mediator.

Nikki Basin

Solicitor specialising in a wide range of housing and property litigation disputes. Advising landlord, tenants, property guardian firms and agents on a broad range of property related disputes and housing matters including but not limited to residential possession claims, disrepair, new build claims, rent repayment orders, reviewing agreements, and regulatory matters including local authority enforcement action under the Housing Act 2004 and Housing and Planning Act 2016.

Peter Mantell

Partner specialising in commercial property and residential property, wills and probate.

Associate Solicitor

Solicitor

Lawyer

Senior Associate specialist in property litigation, with particular focus on residential landlord and tenant and regulatory law relating to rented property and estate agency. Specialist in HMOs, and represents landlord and property professionals in tribunal and criminal proceedings. Acts for landlords, tenants, agents and property investors, as well as providing training on housing law to property agents, legal professionals, local government officers and tenant advice services.

Ruth Omoregie

Associate Solicitor

Ryan Taylor

Ryan specialises in contentious probate and trust matters, working as a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Commercial & Civil Litigation department, based at London Bridge. Ryan has considerable and varied experience in the field, where he can advise clients in relation to beneficiary disputes, claims for further provision, disputes on Wills, disagreements with trustees and also on disputed Court of Protection applications.

Samantha Lewis

Solicitor

Samuel David

Sam is a Partner at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence matters. Throughout his career he has worked closely with Partner Jenny Kennedy on a wide variety of cases. Sam's clients come to him with a wide range of injuries, from catastrophic personal injury to road traffic accident cases as well as birth injuries through to cauda equina syndrome matters. He has wide experience of dealing with foreign national claims helping people who have been injured whilst working or holidaying in the UK, as well as British nationals injured abroad. Making a difference at the start of a personal injury claim is very important to Sam and comprehensive rehabilitation for his clients is always at the forefront of his mind. He is known for his ability to provide compassionate, pragmatic, and realistic legal advice to his clients and/or their families. He aggressively pursues the best financial settlement possible. Sam is also a regular contributor to Kemp and Kemp.

Sana Bibi

Sana Bibi is a partner in the personal injury team of Anthony Gold. She has a particular interest in representing those who have suffered an accident at work. Sana specialises in traumatic brain injury and complex orthopaedic injuries including amputations. Having practised personal injury law for many years, she is an expert on managing the needs of clients and their families who are psychologically impacted by major trauma.

Sarah Hughes

Partner in the family team practicing in all areas of family law, with a focus on complex financial cases with an international element and children disputes, including internal and external relocation cases..

Sarah Cummins

Senior Associate specialist in property litigation. Sarah has extensive experience of cases involving Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) including property licensing, management and council tax. She has represented landlords in tribunal appeals relating to licence conditions, improvement notices, prohibition orders and rent repayment orders. She often assists landlords navigate the complex rules that apply to HMOs and provides practical advice when problems arise with tenants or the Council.

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Associate Solicitor

Solicitor

Conveyancing partner with a broad mix of commercial and residential clients including acting for a number of locally based property companies and prominent individuals.

Timothy Waitt

Timothy primarily advises about defects to property. Most of his work involves advising home owners who have bought badly built brand new homes. His clients frequently seek advice having tried to deal with developers and insurers (NHBC, Premier etc) directly but without success. Partner specialist in repairs and statutory nuisance litigation, acting for tenants, leaseholders and occupiers and landlords, freeholders and property owners. Timothy is a solicitor advocate with higher rights of audience and regularly advocates for his clients in court without the need to instruct a barrister.