Lesley Edwards > Barratts Solicitors > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Barratts Solicitors Offices
NO 3 WHEATCROFT BUSINESS PARK
LANDMERE LANE
NOTTINGHAM
NG12 4DG
England
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Lesley Edwards
Work Department
Partner & Head of Dept. PI
Position
Partner and Head of the Personal Injury Team. Represents clients who have sustained serious injury including TBI, spinal cord injury and amputations. She has over 20 years’ experience of acting for Claimants in accidents at work, public and occupier’s liability, road traffic accidents, CICA and MIB Claims.
Lesley is recommended for being client focussed and dedicated to resolving the most challenging cases. She has recently concluded a case where the Claimant suffered a spinal cord injury rendering him tetraplegic and a severe brain injury with a lump sum of nearly £5m plus periodical payments of £675,000 per annum for care and therapy costs for life. She has also concluded a case against the MIB for damages in excess of £1m for facial and head injuries sustained in a road traffic accident and a lump sum of £14.5m in relation to a young professional who suffered a catastrophic spinal injury in a cycling accident.
Career
Trainee solicitor 1997-1999 and assistant solicitor 1999-2003 Shoosmiths; assistant solicitor Pannones 2003-2004; Irwin Mitchell, assistant solicitor 2004-2006, associate 2006-2012, senior associate 2012-2019; Barratts Solicitors senior associate 2019-2021, Partner 2021.
Languages
Basic French
Memberships
APIL accredited senior litigator, Trustee Headway Nottingham.
Education
LLB Hons Law, Bristol 1996, PGDip OILP 1997
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading partners)Barratts Solicitors retains its strong regional reputation for brain and head injury litigation, criminal injuries compensation claims, spinal injury litigation, fatal accidents and inquests, industrial disease, and MIB claims. Head of clinical negligence and Court of Protection Alison Brooks has a wealth of specialist experience when it comes to traumatic brain injury claims. Clinical negligence expert Vicki Holmes‘ broad practice encompasses birth trauma & paediatric claims, spinal injury, brain injury, catastrophic orthopaedic injury, delayed diagnosis of cancer, and strokes. For personal injury, David Tomlinson is vastly experienced with catastrophic injury claims and is both an APIL Fellow and an APIL accredited spinal cord injury specialist. Lesley Edwards is another key name on the personal injury front as head of team, devoting her expertise to TA claims, employers’ liability claims, product liability claims, cross-border litigation, international travel claims, and rail and aviation crashes. Mike Dodd is another important port of call.