Cathy Leech

Clinical Negligence

Cathy Leech has been recruited to head the JMW catastrophic injury team specifically on SCI, brain and complex injury claims because of her experience, knowledge and reputation for this area of work and her proven and driven commitment to her clients and the charities supporting them.

Cathy has acted personally for well over 50 successful personal injury claims for SCI claimants, and many other catastrophically injured clients and won awards for her expertise. She has been a long-standing supporter of the Spinal Injuries Association and actively fundraises and promotes the charity (and others) seeing the excellent work they do for seriously-injured people and their families.

She is also experienced in claims for individuals with traumatic brain Injuries and polytraumas. Several of her cases have made new and ground-breaking law to the benefit of people generally including the case of Woodland v Essex CC [2013] in the Supreme Court identifying a non-delegable duty of care by a school to its pupils, and more recently Colley v MIB [2022] in the Court of Appeal applying EU law to ensure the MIB could not avoid compensating the injured claimant. Cathy has secured compensation for clients in excess of £100M.

Awards won by Cathy include:

2013 The Law Society Awards - Solicitor of the Year in Private Practice.

2013 SIA Rebuilding Lives  Awards- Excellence in Legal Care

2018 SIA Rebuilding Lives Award - Fundraiser of the Year

2019 Personal Injury Lawyer Awards - Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year

Cathy is identified as a highly-skilled PI lawyer in all the legal directories.