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Stewarts Law LLP Offices
5 NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON
EC4A 3BF
England
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Rebecca Smith
Work Department
Aviation
Position
Senior Associate
Rebecca is a highly experienced aviation lawyer, specialising in complex high-value, catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims from both a domestic and international perspective, including the application of the Montreal Convention. She has been involved in a number of large group action claims in the USA and Nigeria, which include the recent Boeing tragedy. She brings a pragmatic approach borne of dealing with complex cases involving jurisdictional and applicable law issues.
Rebecca has successfully represented clients in all the most recent noteworthy aviation disasters including the Germanwings, Shoreham Air Show and Boeing Ethiopian airlines tragedies.
Career
Prior to joining Stewarts in January 2020, Rebecca worked at Irwin Mitchell as a senior associate heading up their London office aviation team. Rebecca’s previous roles were with Leigh Day as a senior solicitor in their catastrophic brain/spinal injury team, and prior to that she was a partner at Amery Parkes working in the same field.
Memberships
Rebecca is a member of:
- PEOPIL
- APIL
- American Association of Justice (AAJ)
Personal
Rebecca’s interests include water and snow skiing. She enjoys travel, with adventure very much on her agenda.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Transport > Travel
The ‘bright and incredible team’ at Stewarts Law LLP is well-equipped to advise on the remit of catastrophic and fatal injury matters in international contexts for claimants and their families. Christopher Deacon, noted for his ‘incredible depth of knowledge and experience’ in PI, and has a particular focus handling a broad-range of matters, from high-profile RTA work to leisure activity-related accidents. Team lead and ‘legend’ Julian Chamberlayne is an aviation expert, as is Sarah Stewart. Aviation is an area of specialism across the team; a notable example of its work in this sector is its representation of bereaved families following the fatal 2019 Boeing 737 plane crash. Peter Neenan and the ‘exceptional’ Rebecca Smith who acted together on this matter, are both key names in London. ‘Go-to litigator’ Scott Rigby is an APIL-accredited brain injury, spinal cord injury and accidents abroad specialist, adept at handling high-value matters across these areas.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Transport > Travel
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Employment > Senior executives
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Dispute resolution > Public international law