Slater and Gordon

Angela Beric

Angela is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Cambridge. She specialises in serious injury claims with a particular emphasis on child brain injury claims. She is a strong advocate of rehabilitation and care packages funded by the defendants under the Rehabilitation Code. When that is not possible, she always tries to obtain the maximum interim payment to help meet the immediate and ongoing needs of her clients. She is an outstanding lawyer whose calm, sympathetic and reassuring manner makes clients with serious injuries know they are in good hands.

Doreen Reeves

Doreen is an senior associate solicitor in the employment law department at Slater and Gordon in London. Doreen has specialised in employment spanning over two decades, and joined Slater and Gordon in 2016. Her experience covers the full range of employment law, including discrimination and harassment, unfair and wrongful dismissal, and whistleblowing. She regularly advises on post termination restrictive covenants, share options, contract reviews, interim injunction, bonus and contractual disputes and has represented clients in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal. She acts for senior executives within the financial services, bankers, regulated professionals, HR professionals, solicitors, healthcare professionals, NHS consultants, and directors across various sectors in media, IT, marketing, education and central and local Government. Doreen is a strategic, pragmatic and highly technical lawyer and litigator who achieves the best outcome for her clients. As a skilled negotiator, she has successfully resolved workplace disputes resulting in high value and confidential settlements and exit packages. Doreen has managed complex and multiple claims up to millions of pounds and has led the national employment law service for the RMT, Unite and CWU union where I handled high profile litigation cases in the national media. She appeared as a speaker on the BBC and more recently on Sky News discussing equal pay and has also provided legal comments in the national press.

Edmund Young

Edmund is a Principal Lawyer specialising as Head of Industrial Disease for London at Slater and Gordon. He is an expert in handling all types of industrial disease claims, particularly those relating to asbestos and employers’ liability. He leads a team of Industrial disease lawyers. As such he is a frequent attendee at the asbestos sub-parliamentary committee of the House of Commons, which debates on all issues concerning asbestos led campaigns. He is also a staunch supporter of asbestos led campaigns such as Asbestos in Schools and the HSE Hidden Killer campaign. Edmund takes on challenging cases and has gone to the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions.  He is very experienced in handling significant injury claims  and has previously represented a number of trade unions and their members.  He is renowned for his forensic approach to litigation and strives to achieve the best outcomes for his clients.

Edward Cooper

Edward is Head of Practice in the employment department at Slater and Gordon Lawyers, heading up the team servicing trade unions and staff associations and their members.. Edward specialises in all aspects of employment law, as well as advising on the “corporate” needs of  trades unions/staff associations. His experience has a particular emphasis on collective and policy matters; including trade union and industrial law, as well as pensions, public law and human rights-related employment issues. Edward has advised on the rules and procedures governing numerous trade unions and has wide experience in advising trade unions on mergers, Certification Officer complaints, internal disputes and industrial action issues. He has conducted numerous judicial review applications relating to public sector employment rights issues, and acted for a wide range of individual workers in a wide range of industries. More recently, he has acted in a number of professional negligence claims arising from the previous handling of their employment disputes by other solicitors and advisers, and advised on the implications  of GDPR for trade unions

Emma Doughty

Emma is a principal lawyer and was promoted to Joint Head of the Clinical Negligence Department for London and Cambridge in April 2017. Emma is an experienced litigation solicitor specialising in clinical negligence claims. As a skilled advocate, she has trained for and was recently awarded by the Law Society the Higher Rights of Audience qualification in June 2016, making her a Solicitor-Advocate. During her career Emma has dealt with a wide variety of complex and high value claims. These have included securing compensation for clients who have suffered as the result of delays in diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses, amputation cases and injuries during birth and during labour. Emma has developed a specialism in claims concerning delays in diagnosis of cancer and more specifically in breast cancer. She is currently one of the two Lead Solicitors running the group action against Ian Paterson (the former breast surgeon from Birmingham who has been convicted of performing negligent and inappropriate surgeries. Emma was mentioned in the Lawyers Top 20 Cases in January 2017 for her role.

Georgina Chase

Georgina is the Head of the Family Practice specialising in all aspects of family law, in particular financial settlements on divorce; including those involving businesses, trusts, high value pensions and foreign property.  She is also experienced in cohabitation disputes, nuptial agreements and dissolutions of civil partnerships.  Georgina has extensive knowledge of Children Act Proceedings and regularly advises on arrangements for children post separation.  

John Marshall

Principal lawyer, employment. John’s practice encompasses all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. His practice includes High Court litigation concerning the enforcement of restrictive covenants, interpretation of contractual claims, implied terms, penalty clauses and the assessment of damages. Employment Tribunal claims featuring complicated City whistleblowing claims and discrimination claims are a regular feature of the work he undertakes. John also regularly advises directors and senior corporate officers on boardroom disputes and their service agreements and benefits, and partners and members of LLPs on all aspects of their joining, leaving and disputes arising. John also advises extensively those who are FCA authorised; on the regulatory side of their employment or FCA enforcement action against them.

Laura Preston

Laura is a senior associate and team leader in the medical negligence team at Slater and Gordon in London. She manages and supervises 7 staff and handles cases involving all aspects of medical negligence (including birth injury for mother and baby, spinal injury, surgical injury, orthopaedic injury, missed or delayed diagnosis, failure to treat and fatal accident cases including inquests) on behalf of injured patients and their families and has focused solely on this practice area since 2008.   Laura has particular experience in spinal injury and delay in diagnosis claims. She has successfully run several cases relating to faulty medical products including failed hip implants and pharmaceutical products. Laura has worked on two large group litigation cases: the Fetal Anti-convulsant Litigation and most recently as Deputy Lead Solicitor on the ground-breaking and successful litigation against negligent breast surgeon, Mr Ian Paterson, which settled for £37 million.  The settlement was approved by the Court, allowing hundreds of claimants (treated Privately by Mr Paterson). This case has brought the issue of Private sector regulation and patient safety to the forefront of media attention and a public inquiry is being undertaken as a result.

Laura Thompson

As a Senior Associate in the employment team at Slater and Gordon in London, Laura deals with a range of cases on behalf of trade union clients. Due to her experience, Laura is able to provide advice and expert representation in all areas of employment law, including discrimination, contractual disputes, equal pay, pension loss, redundancy, TUPE, unfair and wrongful and constructive dismissal, wages claims, group claims and whistleblowing. She also has experience of advising on internal grievance and disciplinary proceedings, alternative dispute resolution and settlement agreements. Laura was honoured to be sponsored through the College of Law by the Independent Newspaper after winning a scholarship essay prize in 2000. She also acted for the Lord Chancellor during UNISON’s challenge to employment tribunal fees in the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Laura  advised the Department for Education and the Northern Ireland Office as Government lawyer, and has acted in a range of employment tribunal cases for the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the London Fire Brigade.

Lisa Fountain

Lisa is a Principal Lawyer in Slater and Gordon’s personal injury team in London. Lisa specialises in employers’ liability claims, road traffic accidents and occupiers liability claims. She is very experienced in handling cases involving spinal injury, brain injury, serious orthopaedic injury and disfigurement cases. Her other litigation interests include product liability and fatal accident claims.

Michael Knott

Michael is a principal lawyer and leader. He is an experienced in multi-site fee earner and service line team management across UK delivering specialist advice to clients and technical support to other lawyers and stakeholders. He is experienced in management of private and institutional legal services; operational and strategic planning, management and delivery, finance and budgeting, financial governance, risk management, due diligence, people and relationships.

Peter Daly

Peter is a Principal Employment Lawyer based in London.  He specialises in all areas of employment law, with a particular expertise in whistleblowing and discrimination claims.  Peter has acted in a string of high profile litigation cases in recent years: he acted for Shahmir Sanni, who brought attention to EU referendum voting irregularities.  He acted for Maria Bamieh as far as the Court of Appeal in her litigation arising from allegations of corruption at Kosovo’s European Union Rule of Law Mission.  He acted for Mr Greg Pytel in his claim against OFGEM in which the EAT found that aspects of the legislatory regime covering the utilities sector infringed the European Convention on Human Rights.  His case on behalf of Jordi Casamitjana Costa, which seeks to recognise ethical veganism as a protected philosophical belief, attracted news coverage around the globe.  Peter is also an adept negotiator, who specialises in settling complex cases without the need for litigation.  He has a particular expertise around the NHS.

Scott Ingram

Scott is a Criminal Defence Lawyer based in London, specialising in crime, professional misconduct and inquests.  Regularly involved in high profile cases.  Acknowledged expert in police shooting cases - represented police firearms officers in the Jean Charles de Menezes, Mark Duggan and Azelle Rodney shooting cases - July 2015 sucessfully defended the officer at his trial for murder.  Advised the officers in the investigation following the police response to the Westminster and Borough Market terrorist attacks in 2017.  Currently representing officer W80 in disciplinary proceedings following the shooting of Jermaine Baker in 2015 and clients in inquests into deaths of Duncan Tomlin in 2014 and Leroy Medford in 2017.  Scott lectures on post incident procedures in death or serious injury investigations.  He is an expert  in police disciplinary proceedings and coroners' inquests and has been involved in the Judical Review proceedings on the controversial issues of anonymity and self-defence.

Tracey Benson

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.

Victoria Gofton

Victoria is Joint Head of Medical Negligence for London and Cambridge. She is a highly-regarded and respected litigator with more than 13 years’ experience handling a multitude of different cases including traumatic brain injury, spinal injuries as a result of surgery, amputation, anaesthetic awareness, misdiagnosis of cancer and birth injury claims. Victoria has acted in a range of cases involving those against GP’s and hospitals.  She sensitively handles claims involving fatalities of loved ones and cases involving foreign doctors practicing in this jurisdiction.  Her most challenging case to date settled for just under £6 million and her current caseload consists of cases of a similar high value and with technical legal arguments.  Victoria is prepared to take on cases that are complex and challenging. She believes justice should be available for all, especially those that have been devastated after sustaining a serious injury. She understands that this situation not only changes the injured person's life but also has a huge impact on their family and friends.

Will Cornwell

Will is a senior associate in our serious personal injury team in London with specific expertise in brain and spinal cord injuries, and the bereaved families of those who have been fatally injured. Will leads a team specialising in claims arising from road traffic accidents and is not afraid to take on the most challenging of cases. Over the years he has secured a great many substantial settlements in complex, often split-liability road traffic accident claims. Having represented a wide range of clients who have sustained life-changing injuries, Will is well attuned to the profound impact that such injuries have on his clients and their families. How the legal process can support his clients in the important process of rehabilitation is always at the forefront of his mind and facilitating rehabilitation is a core objective of his work. As well as representing his clients, Will has been instrumental in organising and ensuring the delivery of legal training within the London office of the firm. He has co-authored a number of training seminars and workshops for serious injury lawyers and has delivered training externally on subjects such as the role of the personal injury lawyer; road traffic accident reconstruction; and the interplay between the litigation process and rehabilitation.