Barratts Solicitors

Partner & Head of Dept. PI

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.

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.

Basic French

APIL accredited senior litigator, Trustee Headway Nottingham.

LLB Hons Law, Bristol 1996, PGDip OILP 1997