Tessa Grayson > DMH Stallard LLP > Crawley, England > Lawyer Profile
DMH Stallard LLP Offices

Griffin House
135 High Street
RH10 1DQ
England
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Tessa Grayson

Work Department
Personal Injury
Position
Head of the Personal Injury team, with expertise in medical negligence claims.
Career
Tessa’s team handles the full range of personal injury claims, mainly focusing on claimant work.
Her practice is primarily focussed on sensitive cases dealing with clients who may need a considerable amounts of support and care through the process. Many of these clients have sustained injuries that have a profound impact of their daily lives and future prospects. Tessa is committed to ensuring that her clients receive as much support and guidance as necessary.
Tessa has considerable experience in dealing with employer’s liability, occupier’s liability, public liability, road traffic, criminal injury and product liability matters. Additionally Tessa has a particular specialism in clinical and dental negligence and cosmetic surgery claims.
Tessa is committed to the care of her clients, ensuring that they receive the specialist and exceptional legal advice expected. She ensures that her approach is innovative; tailored to the unique needs of each client. She is empathetic towards the impact that incidents can have on clients and their families.
Tessa is recognised by the legal directories Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for her work in respect of both personal injury and clinical negligence claims.
Work highlights
- Tessa is currently assisting a client in relation to a devastating injury following an accident at work. The client required several surgeries and rehabilitation.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Fielding a ‘conscientious and communicative‘ team, DMH Stallard LLP handles a varied caseload relating to accidents at work, industrial diseases, spinal injuries, catastrophic injuries and fatal accidents, among others. Tessa Grayson leads the Gatwick-based group and specialises in catastrophic injury and fatality claims. She is supported by Catherine Smith, who is singled out by clients as ‘outstanding‘.
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Praised as ‘simply the best’, Tessa Grayson helms the DMH Stallard LLP clinical negligence group, which has recently been engaged to assist a plethora of clients with multiple defendant claims, and cases involving delays in diagnoses and errors in treatment at birth. Grayson frequently handles matters pertaining to obstetrics and birth injuries, while Lucienne Westbrook is a court-appointed deputy who regularly acts for families in inquests.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Personal injury: claimant South East > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant