Tracey Benson > Slater and Gordon > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
90 High Holborn
LONDON
WC1V 6LJ
England
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Tracey Benson
Work Department
Personal Injury
Position
Tracey is a Principal Lawyer and Head of the Serious Injury department in the South of England.
Tracey has extensive experience surrounding all types of workplace accidents but handles all types of serious injury cases including road traffic collisions, public liability and sporting accidents. She also deals with fatal accidents.
She has an interest in sports injuries and has handled notable cases on behalf of professional footballers and other sporting accidents which have attracted media coverage. She’s been instructed by the Professional Footballers Association to represent their members.
She represents clients with severe acquired brain injuries, spinal injuries, injuries resulting in amputation (both traumatic and elective), severe burns and other multiple injuries and psychiatric injuries.
She also undertakes pro bono work mostly relating to Inquest representation.
Tracey regularly appears on the radio and television. She’s appeared on Good Morning Britain, BBC news, London Live and regularly appear on national radio stations.
Many of her settlements have reached the national press. She has a reputation as a keen litigator and has a number of articles published in the legal press.
Career
Tracey qualified in 2000. Russell Jones & Walker 1992-2013.
Notable cases of Tracey’s include a settlement of £975,000 for an amputee caused by an explosion in the workplace caused by extreme unsafe working practices, £900,000 for a Charlton Athletic Footballer and £500,000 for a professor of law at Middlesex University who fell and injured her knee at work.
Many of her cases have received media attention such as her settlement of £750,000 on behalf of a forensic examiner severely injured in Afghanistan when an item he was examining exploded causing catastrophic injury to his right hand. She also recovered a 6 figure sum for a professional lady seriously injured by her Taekwondo instructor which featured in the national press.
In addition a settlement of £6 million for a tetraplegic client with difficult ex turpi liability issues. This case involved putting in place a comprehensive 24 hour care package and re-housing the client.
She also handled numerous cases arising from the Croydon Tram Crash.
Tracey is regularly approached for media comment and has a strong external profile. This year she has advised on care home quality and potential claims for negligence and provided advice to the media and charities including production of a broadcast on the topic shared on various platforms (linked-in/twitter/websites). She has led a media campaign in relation to the Highway Code changes in early 2022.
She has also published articles this year within the NeuroRehab Times on the topic of brain injury in sport and the litigation currently being pursued and APIL on the use of technology within law firms.
Memberships
Tracey is a member of the Law Society, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Association of Women Solicitors.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
The serious and specialist personal injury Slater and Gordon has a national focus and is led from London by Tracey Benson, but it has a deep bench of talent in Cambridge, which is a central hub for its complex and high-value work. Paul Tapner
(who ‘always goes above and beyond‘), Angela Beric (who’ has an encyclopaedic knowledge of her cases‘), and Richard Gaffney (who is ‘very thorough in chasing down points of detail‘) are the standout partners. Senior associate Crystal Eaton also plays a key role in the firm’s key catastrophic injury matters. Tapner recently settled a £15m claim for a catastrophic brain injury during a rugby match.
West Midlands > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Slater and Gordon fields a team which acts primarily for those who have suffered serious and catastrophic road traffic accidents. It is skilled at advising on cases involving traumatic brain injuries, amputations and other issues such as serious polytrauma claims. However, there have been changes to the team as principal lawyer Tracey Benson, who is based in London, and senior associates Gulderen Horton-Salih and Naheed Akhtar are now at the helm, since Steven Baylis’ departure.
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Headed up by Tracey Benson, Slater and Gordon‘s personal injury practice is praised by clients for its ‘excellent personnel and resources’. The department’s expertise encompasses catastrophic injuries, including cognitive, spinal cord, amputation, and psychiatric claims, but is additionally capable in fatal inquests and inquiries, and high-profile group claims. Department head Benson is commended for her ‘hard work, industry and persistence’. She often works in conjunction with Will Cornwell, a ‘knowledgeable and experienced litigator’ noted for his experience regarding catastrophic work and traffic injuries. Lisa Fountain holds over 20 years of experience in chronic pain and orthopaedic injury claims, while Simon Mason is a port of call for catastrophic cognitive injuries, polytrauma and fatal claims.