Sarah Towler > Russell-Cooke LLP > Kingston upon Thames, England > Lawyer Profile
Russell-Cooke LLP Offices
Riverview House 20 Old Bridge Street Hampton Wick
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
KT1 4BU
England
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Sarah Towler
Work Department
Personal injury and clinical negligence.
Position
Sarah is a partner in the personal injury and clinical negligence team advising clients on a wide range of claims, including cases involving misdiagnosis of symptoms, negligent operations, road traffic accidents, work accidents and tripping accidents.
Particular areas of specialisation are claims against local authorities regarding failure to care for vulnerable adults and children.
Sarah also represents bereaved families at inquests involving deaths in hospital and the workplace, road traffic accidents and suicides. Additionally, she manages four pro-bono personal injury and clinical negligence drop-in clinics at Croydon, Morden, Battersea and Roehampton.
Career
Sarah joined Russell-Cooke in 1996 and was appointed partner in 2011.
Memberships
Member of the APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers); Secretary for APIL Costs and Funding Special Interest Group
Education
Law degree, Oxford Brookes University; Master’s degree in law, University College London.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
The clinical negligence practice at Russell-Cooke LLP fields a ‘very personable and competent team’, offering its expertise in both non-contentious inquests, along with complex and often sensitive disputes involving fatalities, sexual abuse, catastrophic injuries acquired in a wide variety of circumstances, and group claims. The team is additionally proficient in a number of novel and sophisticated claims, including those involving psychiatric injuries and complex causation claims. Highlighted for her ‘efficiency and speed’, practice head Sarah Towler often advises on cognitive and spinal injury claims, along with work and traffic accidents litigation. Janice Gardner specialises in infectious injuries, along with catastrophic spine and brain injuries. In addition to heading the team’s inquest group, Dominic Fairclough often advises on fatal claims, owing to his extensive expertise in coronial and post-fatality investigations. Other key figures include Lucy Lawson, a port of call for serious orthopaedic, cognitive and spinal injury claims.