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Alex McCann

Hill Dickinson LLP

 Alex is a partner in the property team.

Andrew Williams

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner specialising in acquisition and disposal of commercial property (freehold and leasehold); all aspects of management transactions; and landlord and tenant matters.

Andrew Leslie

Hill Dickinson LLP

A highly experienced practitioner who specialises in defendant clinical negligence representing the NHS. He manages a high-value caseload of catastrophic injury claims, with a predominant focus on the most complex adult and child brain injury claims. Substantial experience in ADR, achieving multi-million pound settlements using periodical payment orders and successfully defending claims to trial when merited. Background in healthcare advisory work and coroner’s inquests, as well as lecturing to health sector audiences. Firm client relationship partner for a number of NHS clients.

Andrew Gibson

Hill Dickinson LLP

Andrew qualified in 1989, and gained a wide range of employment litigation experience with a niche commercial law firm in Manchester before joining Hill Dickinson in September 2001. Andrew has extensive experience in a range of employment law matters, and undertakes advocacy in the Employment Tribunals, and the Employment Appeal Tribunal. He has conducted litigation in the Court of Appeal. He advises on all aspects of an increasingly complex area of law, including TUPE, the Working Time Directive, race, sex and disability discrimination and redundancy. He is also involved in extensive litigation on-going nationally relating to equal pay. Notable cases include Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley and the national test issue of Jones & Ors v Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors. He acts primarily for employers, from small private companies to large PLCs, NHS Trusts, Colleges, Local Authorities and Universities. He has acted for teachers and lecturers in disputes with their employers, and as a school governor for many years has a particular interest in Education Law. He is also a prominent member of the firm’s on-going training and continuing development activities for clients and potential clients, as well as coordinating the training needs for solicitors and support staff in the employment and pensions practice group.

Anthony Houghton

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner specialising in commercial property, site assembly, landlord and tenant, large project/portfolio work, leases, multi-site telecommunications lettings and property development.

Anthony Gibbons

Hill Dickinson LLP

Legal director dealing with professional negligence claims and complaints against the firm.

Chris Tyrrell

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in the commercial litigation team, Chris' expertise is in high value contractual disputes, but with particular specialisms in corporate, healthcare and financial services disputes.Chris has been with the firm since 2006 and has become widely regarded as a specialist in complex contractual claims, and has acted for clients in the aviation, sports, property and retail sectors, across a number of different jurisdictions. Hehas also developed a particular specialism in complex healthcare disputes and has led a number of multi-disciplinary national investigations into healthcare contractors, especially those involving allegations of fraud.Chris has a first class degree in Law (winner of the Law Prize) and a master of philosophy degree in law from Manchester University. His expereince includes: Successfully representing the Peel Group in High Court and Court of Appeal case of Durham Tees Valley Airport -v-bmibaby ([2010] EWCA Civ 485 Successfully representing Wayne Rooney and his company, Stoneygate 48 Limited in the claim brought by Proactive Sports Management (2010 EWHC 1807 (QB)) Chris also represented Lancashire County Cricket Club in Judicial Review proceedings against Derwent Holdings ([2011] EWCA Civ 832) Sucecssfully acting for the Peel Group in arbitration proceedings for ongoing royalties under a long-term contract Acting for eight NHS trusts in a dispute against a contractor pursuant to a £70 million service agreement Acting for former shareholders of two businesses in separate £10 million+ breach of warranty claims

Chris Johnston

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner leading the property finance team in Manchester.

Claire Cosgrove

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in our property team, undertaking a wide range of property tranactions with particular emphasis on acquisitions amd disposals and landlord and tenant work, Claire was originally a trainee at the firm and qualified into the property and construction team in 2005. She was promoted to senior associate in 2008 and partner in 2011. She has particular expertise in acquisitions and disposals and landlord and tenant work. Particular areas of specialism include: bulk disposals and acquisitions investment acquisitions including retail parks and shopping centres acting for tenants in the retail sector - Claire has acted for national retailers since qualification in all aspects of their property portfolios                                        

Colin Lavelle

Hill Dickinson LLP

Legal Director within the Liverpool Shipping team, specialising in both commercial and contentious shipping matters, having joined the firm in 2002. Acts for a cross-section of clients in the shipping sector ranging from P&I Clubs, cargo interests and Owners to Freight Forwarders, Shipping Lines and Lenders. Colin advises on matters ranging from dispute resolution to a broad range of commercial shipping issues. Recent work carried includes: recovery of large debt for bunker supplier and ships’ agent, which included the arrest and sale of a fleet of vessels in the UK and Spain; various ship sale and purchases; admiralty Court action to determine whether Filipino law or English Law applied to the calculation of a personal injury claim; advising on issues relating to the Bribery Act and alleged free trade infringements including providing in-house training for clients; handling contractual dispute to determine whether major Port was responsible to pay Agency provider on termination of contract; multimillion pound recovery of super yacht seized in Turkey on behalf of major UK Bank; acting for Liner Agents in respect of issues arising from administration of major retailers including Woolworths, Habitat and Unipart Automotive. Colin has been involved in presenting and organising various external presentations on a range of subjects including Bribery, Competition Law for Liner Agents and Commercial Shipping Issues.

Craig Walker

Hill Dickinson LLP

A consultant specialising in property litigation.

Craig Scott

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner- National Head of Corporate

Darren Hamer

Hill Dickinson LLP

Darren has worked on some of largest property transactions in the north-west over the last few years and his clients are both public and the private sector. Darren's areas of recent expertise includes in respect of investment transactions, complex lease interpretation, neighbourly issues and joint venture acquisitions. He endeavours to obtain a full understanding of the client’s business that he believes is fundamental to achieving the best outcome for his clients.Experience: • Acted in provision of advice to a local authority in connection with the £80m regeneration of its town centre• Acted on the sale of a portfolio of Office buildings for a private investor for £17 million• Acted on the sale of land for residential development for a partnership for £17.45m• Acted on the sale of a central London buildings for private investors for £15.3 million• Acted on the acquisition of a shopping centre for a local authority for £27 million• Acted on the strategic acquisition of key town centre sites for a local authority for £9 million

David Oram

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious construction.

David Swaffield

Hill Dickinson LLP

David heads the thriving (and growing) property and construction team based in the Liverpool, Manchester and London offices. His own particular areas of expertise include property investment and development work, and landlord and tenant issues.Originally joining the firm in 1976, David has served on its board (in various manifestations) for 25 years. He currently chairs the audit committee and is its compliance officer for legal practice. He was president of the Liverpool Law Society in 2000.David has a broad commercial property practice but his particular areas of expertise include investment and development work, and landlord and tenant matters, especially in the office, industrial and logistics sectors and infrastructure projects. He acts for a number of major developers, occupiers and institutions.

David Chinn

Hill Dickinson LLP

David is a partner in the construction team and advises on both contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering work. He is also head of the business services team.David joined the firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1992. He has been advising on construction/engineering law since 1990. Involved in many high profile projects relating to football stadia, a zoo, theatres, bridges/tunnels and various iconic buildings, David is also involved in project work including advising on, drafting and negotiating building contracts, consultants' appointments, collateral warranties and other security documents. He also deals with dispute work including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation.

David Locke

Hill Dickinson LLP

David is a partner in the health litigation team, dealing with complex, catasrophic litigation and health sector group actions. A solicitor-advocate with higher rights of audience, regularly appearing in appeals and High Court matters on behalf clients. On a day-to-day basis, manages a caseload of maximum severity and multi-party clinical negligence claims on behalf of NHS Trusts, with a number of trial successes. Expertise relating in particular to the innovative management of complex group litigation, notably the Liverpool urogynaecology litigation and the Leicester epilepsy litigation. The ADR Protocol devised in the Liverpool litigation has now been widely adopted as the standard model in NHS group actions and has been updated following the changes to civil litigation funding rules. Has consulted on various other group actions including matters outside of the health sector.

David Parry

Hill Dickinson LLP

David is head of the Commercial Employment team in Manchester. He has over 12 years’ specialist employment law experience.Acting for UK and US listed companies through to owner-managed businesses, David's practice spans the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law, HR and ER issues. The bulk of David’s practice sees him working on significant, complex, high-value and reputationally important people matters. David is routinely instructed on heavyweight employment disputes in the High Court, including urgent claims for injunctive relief arising out of the breach of restrictive covenants, the misuse of confidential information and team-move situations. He also has particular expertise in large-scale reorganisations (especially where collective consultation is required) and the employment aspects of outsourcing, joint venture and M&A transactions.David previously spent a significant period on secondment to Barclays Bank plc where he undertook the role of legal counsel within the bank's global retail division.Recent experience includes:• Acting for the UK subsidiary of a NYSE listed global provider of diversified consumer packaging in a claim against an ex-employee who had joined a competitor and misused confidential information• Acting for an international travel group in a dispute with a former director who resigned from the business to join a competitor in breach of his restrictive covenants.• Acting for an international travel group in relation to an unlawful team move to a competing business.• Acting for an international travel group in relation to a major site closure / relocation. • Acting for a retail technology business in conducting an independent inquiry in response to allegations of sexual harassment and bullying made against members of its senior leadership team.• Acting for a casino operator in relation to a claim for injunctive relief brought in the Employment Tribunal arising out of alleged protected whistleblowing disclosures.• Acting for a global soft drinks manufacturer in relation to the implementation of a GDPR compliant data protection regime for its UK and European workforce.

Emma Stockwell

Hill Dickinson LLP

Head of Governance, Regulatory and Public Law

Fiona Parry

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner, Head of Commercial Litigation

Fionnuala Kenny

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner specialising in succession trusts and personal tax planning.

Geraldine Ryan

Hill Dickinson LLP

Heads the firm’s commercial litigation team. Head of Manchester office

Graham Archibald

Hill Dickinson LLP

Graham is a partner in our property team. He undertakes a wide range of property transactions with particular emphasis on acquisitions and disposals, portfolio management and development projects. With particular expertise in undertaking acquisitions and disposals, and portfolio management, Graham also has extensive experience of acting for both landlords and tenants on leasehold transactions. Particular areas of specialism include: The undertaking of development transactions Site disposals to residential developers Disposals and acquisitions of industrial estates Transactions involving the leisure sector He acts for private investors and national corporates, as well as a number of public and third sector bodies.

Iain Campbell

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in our commercial litigation team, Iain has lengthy experience of both dispute resolution and regulatory defence work for clients in many sectors, including financial services, retail and higher education.His litigation experience ranges from commercial disputes to emergency injunctions and crisis management. Iain's specialisms include competition law, restraint of trade and financial regulation. He lectures for CPD providers on technical topics such as legal professional privilege, and is also a mediator, being a member of the national panel of The Mediator Network. As a student, Iain won the Observer Mace debating tournament and subsequently graduated in law from Manchester University.

Ian Gardiner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Training with the firm and then qualifying in 1999 before becoming a partner in 2003, Ian specialises in defending clinical negligence and employers’ liability/public liability claims (EL/PL) in the NHS setting. He also advises on most other healthcare issues and manages the Manchester health litigation team.A nominated partner for clinical negligence and EL/PL claims for the NHS Litigation Authority, ian also lectures widely to clients on health litigation topics.

Ian Gillis

Hill Dickinson LLP

Head of Corporate Manchester

Jeff Isaacs

Hall of fameHill Dickinson LLP

Partner with a recognised specialism in commodities, international trade and shipping law, with especial expertise and specialisation in sugar and cotton. Work undertaken includes commodity disputes, international sale and purchase contract litigation and arbitration (principally at GAFTA, FOSFA, ICA and RSA/SAL but also at LCIA and ICC ), and all aspects of international trade, including futures and options and other commodity-based derivatives, together with all forms of dry shipping litigation, including charterparty and bill of lading disputes, cargo claims and ship sale and purchase disputes. Clients are commodity trading houses, commodity trade associations and energy majors. Speaks regularly at seminars on all aspects of his practice, particularly sugar.

Jim Purves

Hill Dickinson LLP

Head of the national property and construction team, Jim joined Hill Dickinson’s rapidly-expanding Manchester property team from Pinsent Masons in May 2015 and in May 2017 became the first Manchester-based head of Hill Dickinson’s national property practice.Key sectors: logistics/industrial property; retailKey clients: DHL, Lookers Motor Group, EuroGarages, Williams Lea Taghttps://www.hilldickinson.com/people/jim-purves

John Hulmes

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner with the Liverpool shipping team, with particular expertise in P&I, FDD, law relating to ports and managing complex dispute claims. Increasing role in risk management issues and has advised company boards (including P&I club boards) in relation to confidential matters. Clients include leading banks, charterers, liner agents, ports and owners.

Jonathan Brown

Hall of fameHill Dickinson LLP

With almost 30 years’ experience as a corporate transactional lawyer advising a wide range of public companies, large privately owned companies and SMEs, Jonathan has excellent experience in a wide variety of sectors, and a wide variety of clients undertaking transactions  in the UK and abroad. Jonathan deals with all forms of corporate transactions including: Mergers Acquisitions Disposals Private equity Public equity Joint ventures Re-organisations His experience includes: Stobart Group - sale of 51 % of Eddie Stobart to DBay Capital Bibby Line Group - sale of Bibby Ship Management Edward Billington and Son Limited - acquisition of TSC Foods and Dunkleys Limited Cammell Laird - acquisition of A & P Carr's Group PLC - acquisition of Meneba Holdings including Class 1 transaction Cammell Laird Gibraltar - sale Highneal Group – section 110 re-organisation Benfield Sports - sale to IMG Swinton Group - sale of NI business Connect Airways/ Stobart Group – acquisition of Flybe Group plc Huaxiang Corporation - acquisition of Lawrence Automotive Systems Labelling – sale to Americk ( NI )

Jonathan Heap

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner in the NHSLA team specialising in clinical negligence and personal injury. Caseload includes a full range of claims with particular interest in brain injury, spinal injury, ophthalmic and complex surgical cases. Jonathan handled the key clinical negligence case of Reaney v University Hospitals of North Staffordshire NHS Trust & Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWCA Civ 1119 which the Defendants successfully appealed. He regularly lectures to clients on various legal issues, with particular interest in patient safety and the application of the legal duty of candour.

Jonathan Dover

Hill Dickinson LLP

Jonathan is a partner in the Manchester property team with over 25 years’ experience working in commercial property.Prior to joining the firm in February 2009, Jonathan was a partner at Berg Legal in Manchester, having trained at Eversheds. He specialises in dealing with various aspects of commercial property including the buying and selling of property and landlord and tenant transactional work.

Julia Stansfield

Hill Dickinson LLP

A legal director in the property litigation team, Julia is experienced in dealing with a wide range of property claims, including landlord and tenant disputes, rights of way, restrictive covenants, overage and property damage claims.Julia originally qualified into the commercial property team, which provided her with the experience essential for a property litigator, before moving into a litigation role, which included dealing with a large number of property related professional negligence claims. She then took this valuable experience with her to the firm's specialist property litigation team.In addition to Julia's expertise in professional negligence and working on the ‘bread and butter’ work of a property litigator, such as landlord and tenant disputes and property damage claims, Julia specialises in ‘real property’ disputes, for example, issues relating to a variety of different easements, restrictive covenants and adverse possession. Julia also acts for a number of leading legal indemnity insurers who provide insurance to commercial and residential property owners. She is appointed to act for the policy holder when a claim is made under the policy. She also provides advice on policy/coverage issues for insurers.

Kathy Holuba

Hill Dickinson LLP

Kathy is a professional support lawyer in the corporate team, providing technical legal support to the team and its clients. Kathy advises on the technical aspects of corporate law, such as share and business sales, M&A transactions, shareholder agreements and articles of association, director issues and partnership and limited liability partnerships, including the relevant documents and procedures .

Kerstie Skeaping

Hill Dickinson LLP

Head of Liverpool Commercial and Head of Health, Employment

Kevin Lee

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner in a real estate group specialising in property litigation, particularly property insolvency, rights of light and interim remedies. His clients range from banks and insurance companies to universities and a growing number of overseas companies and investors.

Mark Fitzgibbon

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner – Head of Commercial, TMT and IP

Martyn McDonald

Hill Dickinson LLP

Acts for a number of major retailers including Poundland, Spar and Bonmarche. Long-standing client Mason Partners continue to acquire and dispose of substantial investment properties comprising retail parks, office buildings and industrial sites. Martyn’s work involves significant acquisitions/disposals, leases and property aspects of asset/share acquisitions, and specialises in retail and sector matters. He has acted over the past 12 months in relation to a programme of new leases for Poundland and in relation to a number of complex relocations for Bonmarche. Has acted for Spar in relation to the disposal of 33 stores to One Stop. Has acted for Costcutter (Bibby) in relation to the property aspects concerning the sale of 26 stores to Conviviality Retail.

Matt Noon

Hill Dickinson LLP

Matt Noon has built a strong and growing reputation in both the local and national advisory community. Matt is also a Hill Dickinson LLP Board member as well as being a Board member of Professional Liverpool. Matt has recently led and worked on a number of high profile national transactions including, but not limited to:- Advising the management team of JLA (a leading critical asset supply and services business for laundry, catering and heating in the UK) on the acquisition of JLA by the international private equity firm, Cinven (Confidential deal value was £640M. Only the value is confidential and our role is otherwise publishable).- Advising Carr’s Group Plc on the acquisition for £8.5m of Animax Limited and Clinimax Limited (specialists in research, development and manufacturing of animal health products); - Advising the company and management team of the indoor climbing business, the Climbing Hangar, in the £3m of growth capital investment from NVM Private Equity; and- Advising the shareholders of Fieldway Supplies Limited in relation to the £2m investment from Foresight.- Advising the shareholders of We Are Discounts Limited on the MBO of WADL.

Michael McKenna

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner in health practice group dealing with catastrophic injury cases involving brain, spinal and cerebral palsy injuries, general insurance-related matters for major insurers, loss adjusters and brokers.

Michael Jones

Hill Dickinson LLP

Primarily advises on corporate transactional mattersincluding acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, joint ventures and shareholder issues. Mike also has wide experience in corporate funding and joint ventures.

Michael Woolley

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in our construction and engineering team, Michael has a wide range of experience in the industry covering both contentious and non-contentious work including, adjudication, litigation, arbitration and mediation. Head of construction.His non-contentious work covers advice on procurement, contracts and related professional appointments whilst he has extensive experience in large developments including those for multiple business occupation. Michael's contentious experience extends to all forms of dispute resolution and he is a Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association (TeCSA) approved construction mediator.Cases include: Baxall and Norbain v Sheard Walshaw; Henry Boot v Malmaison Hotel; George Hunt Cranes v Scottish Boiler; CRS v Taylor Young and Hoare Lee; Millers Specialist Joiner v Nobles; David McLean v Albany Building; and Construction Partnership v Leek Developments.

Michael Stephens

Hill Dickinson LLP

Consultant specialising in commercial property, retail, investment, landlord and tenant, and large project/portfolio work, for Iceland, investors and others. Leader of team on Iceland’s disposal of 28 shops to Marks & Spencer Simply Foods and Iceland’s acquisition of 51 Woolworths shops.

Michael Blakey

Hill Dickinson LLP

Michael is a partner in our property and construction team based in Manchester. He is also the anti-money laundering officer for the LLP. With over 35 years' experience handling high-value commercial property investment work, Michael has been involved in some of the largest transactions in Manchester. These include: £100 million sale of the Arndale Centre Redevelopment of the Marks and Spencers store Acquisitions and sale of Lee House Churchgate House The Zenith Building and; many other multi-million pound sales and purchases, particularly office buildings in the City of Manchester. Michael acts principally for land owners and developers, including UPS Limited, P&O Shopping Centres Limited, The Wrather Group and various Friendly Societies and numerous private investors in the North West. His portfolio includes a number of covered shopping centres, industrial parks and retail parks.

Nick Pye

Hill Dickinson LLP

Nick is a partner in the property corporate and investment team, dealing with all aspects of non-contentious property work.Nick acts for a number of corporate clients and individuals, working with a team of experts in connection with aspects of commercial conveyancing, including sale and purchase, and landlord and tenant work. He also deals with site acquisition for residential development and all post-acquisition work, including overseeing the sale of developed residential plots.

Paul Walsh

Hill Dickinson LLP

Paul is a partner in the award winning commercial litigation team with wide ranging commercial dispute resolution experience - acting for corporate clients in relation to complex litigation both in the UK and internationally.Working with clients to proactively manage legal risk, Paul helps them tackle disputes effectively, whether through traditional means such as litigation or arbitration, or alternative methods including mediation and expert determination. He has particular experience advising clients in respect of claims for breach of contract and arising on termination of contracts, IT, outsourcing, technology and telecoms disputes, professional negligence claims, warranty claims, shareholder disputes, competition law claims and sports disciplinary matters.

Peter Jackson

Hill Dickinson LLP

Managing partner specialising in marine and goods in transit litigation and commercial litigation, mainstream activity in the area of cargo and transit work, acting for cargo and goods in transit insurers in all aspects of cargo claims, charterparty disputes, international road haulage matters, salvage, shipping casualties, arbitration work and policy interpretation matters.

Phil Sheard

Hill Dickinson LLP

Having qualified as a solicitor in 2005, Phil specialises in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution, across a wide range of industry sectors. He also heads up the commercial debt recovery and enforcement team. Phil deals mainly in finance/banking disputes with a particular specialism in invoice financing, factoring and guarantor claims. He also has expertise in relation to restitution claims for the return of mistaken payments/overpayments. As part of those restitution claims, he has a particular expertise with applications for Norwich Pharmacal Orders. Phil also handles general commercial contract disputes, misrepresentation claims and disputes relating to vehicle quality and vehicle finance. He regularly advises his clients on jurisdictional issues arising in cross-border claims and deals with claims to restore companies to the register at companies house.Phil received a first class (Hons) LLB in law at Liverpool JMU, winning the Sir Graham Day Prize and the Law Society Proxime Accessit Prize.

Phil Gazzola

Hill Dickinson LLP

Phil is a senior associate in the construction and engineering team and advises and acts in contentious and non-contentious matters

Philip Bradbury

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner specialising in the defence of medical negligence and employers’/public liability claims for health authorities and NHS Trusts. Phil has extensive experience in defending high value clinical negligence claims with a particular emphasis on obstetric claims. He has concluded multiple settlements involving Periodical Payments, including one of the first Orders made under the present regime. He also specialises in accident and disease claims for major insurance companies.

Philip Farrar

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner and head of Hill Dickinson’s NHS employment team with over 25 years’ experience in employment law, acting for the NHS, local government and education bodies. Leading expert in matters of healthcare discipline within the NHS and extensive experience of senior level disputes and discrimination issues (in particular whistle-blowing) and industrial action. Experience includes acting for a Special Health Authority on general employment law and also advising as to the management of employees and the related unlawful discrimination claims for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Practitioners throughout England including claims for judicial review and in Employment Tribunal.

Philip Moy

Hill Dickinson LLP

Partner, Head of Regulatory

Ralph Bullivant

Hill Dickinson LLP

Ralph is a partner in the property litigation team and advises on all types of property disputes, specialising in landlord and tenant, tenant default and lease renewals.He acts for a wide range of clients including high street retailers, NHS trusts, developers and landlords, and provides advice on issues arising out of tenant default, achieving vacant possession and lease renewals. Ralph is a member of the Property Litigation Association and is a regular presenter to the RICS and clients on contentious property issues. He also has extensive experience in advising and obtaining vacant possession of commercial lease premises whether or not with the benefit of protection under the 1954 Act and is an acknowledged expert on the recovery of commercial rent arrears. He acts on behalf of one of the country’s largest firms of certificated bailiffs and over the last 12 months has spoken to approximately 2,500 of their clients on the implementation of commercial rent arrears recovery (CRAR).

Richard Watson

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in the health litigation team representing the NHS in complex and varied claims, Richard is highly regarded for his expertise in defending many complex high value clinical negligence birth trauma and other high value neurological  claims brought against NHS organisations. He has dealt  with claims worth up to £15 million, many of which have attracted media interest. He has 30 years' experience of working in the health market place with substantial experience of defendant work and legal developments and changes in the sector generally. That experience includes not only management of challenging high value cases, but also the successful leadership of a large team of others in various health disciplines over a prolonged period of time.

Roger Pointon

Hill Dickinson LLP

Roger is a consultant at Hill Dickinson. He specialises in all areas of corporate law including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, re-organisations, management buy outs/ins and public markets work

Sharon Thomas

Hill Dickinson LLP

A partner in the healthcare team, Sharon has wide experience in representing NHS bodies and detaining authorities at mental health review Tribunals, inquests, in declaratory proceedings and in bringing and defending judicial review.She provides regular training sessions to NHS staff, both locally and nationally, on topics such as consent to treatment, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberty safeguards, changes to the Mental Health Act 1983, data protection and data sharing and Children Act issues. Sharon has also successfully defended a large number of judicial review and human rights claims at letter of response stage. She also advises NHS trusts in a number of high-profile matters that are not subject to litigation. Her expereince includes: R (On the Application of DR) -v- Mersey Care NHS Trust (2002) MHLR 386, QB (Admin) Re GK (Patient: Habeas Corpus) (1999) MHLR 128 Re SC (Mental Patient: Habeas Corpus) 1996 QB 599 Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust and North West Wales NHS Trust -v- Luke Winston-Jones and Rith Winston-Jones (2004) QB (Family)

Simon Felce

Hill Dickinson LLP

Experienced commercial property conveyancer who since 1995 has acted principally for property developers/landlords handling a wide range of property and planning related matters both freehold and leasehold. Extensive use is made of option agreements and conditional contracts leading to development agreements/agreements for lease with major national retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, B & Q and Dixons.

Sue Russell

Hill Dickinson LLP

Sue is a legal director in our corporate team. Also holding the corproate finance qualification from the Institue of Chartered Accountants, Sue's time is predominantly spent leading acquisitions and disposals and providing strategic advice.Sue handles acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses, corporate re-organisations and advises on company constitutional matters including shareholder issues and corporate governance. With a client base ranging from serial entrepreneurs to FTSE listed companies, she also frequently advises non-UK entities in connection with investment into UK companies.Sue has a lot of experience of working with manufacturing, production and processing companies through which she has gained a thorough understanding of the legal issues they face, which is particularly useful in resolving problematic due diligence issues. Frequently leading large and complex transactions, Sue has developed strong project management skills. She has also worked for clients in professional services (solicitors, surveyors) and in the football sector, including Everton Football Club and Blackburn Rovers.