Helen Goatley > Moore Barlow > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Moore Barlow Offices
THE ORIEL
SYDENHAM ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU1 3SR
England
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Helen Goatley
Work Department
Litigation department, personal injury group, clinical negligence.
Position
Partner acting for claimants in maximum severity personal injury claims and clinical negligence cases. She has achieved a particular reputation for her work on behalf of the victims of brain injury and was for many years the chairman of APIL’s brain injury group. She has had notable successes in heavily disputed cerebral palsy claims.
Career
Trained Allen & Overy; qualified 1990; joined Barlows (now Barlow Robbins LLP) as a newly qualified solicitor; partner 1994. Director Headway, Surrey; chairman of Surrey Acquired Brain Injury Network.
Languages
French, German.
Memberships
Law Society Personal Injury Panel; Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel.
Education
Vyners School, Ickenham; Durham University (BA (Hons) Law 2(1)).
Leisure
Music, travel, entertaining, community and charity activities; school governor.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Spread across Southampton, Richmond, Guildford and Woking, Moore Barlow‘s ‘exceptionally well organised, technically capable and astute’ practice handles the full range of serious injury work and fields a distinct major trauma service. In Southampton, Damian Horan
regularly handles catastrophic injury claims with jurisdictional issues and Matthew Claxson leads the office’s serious injury team, while Trevor Sterling, who is based in Richmond, is ‘a heavy hitter in the market‘. Emma Potter leads the Guildford and Woking serious injury teams and acts cases involving functional neurological disorders and chronic pain issues, and Helen Goatley in Guildford excels in acquired brain injury litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Public sector > Public sector