Profiles

My legal life: Andrew Gill, Forrester Sylvester Mackett

28 February 2025

Consultant solicitor at Forrester Sylvester Mackett Solicitors, Malmesbury.

Lawyer in the news: Iain Wilson, Brett Wilson

28 February 2025

Represented green energy industrialist Dale Vince, who settled a High Court libel claim with Associated Newspapers Ltd.

Obituary: Nick Hanning

2025-02-24T08:00:00+00:00By David Gilmore

'A determined fighter': a tribute to CILEX lawyer and recorder Nick Hanning.

My legal life: Annabelle Vaughan, Enable Law

21 February 2025

Partner in Southampton and head of the firm’s mental capacity team.

Lawyer in the news: Sabrina Simpson, Coram Children’s Legal Centre

21 February 2025

Represented a mother who challenged the Legal Aid Agency’s refusal to grant legal aid for her excluded son’s Independent Review Panel hearing.

Spot the difference

2025-02-19T10:26:00+00:00By Eduardo Reyes

Alison Eddy headed Irwin Mitchell’s London office for 12 years. She talks to Eduardo Reyes about a career that has never lost its focus on equality and diversity.

My legal life: Gavin Grewal, White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors

14 February 2025

Managing partner, Leighton Buzzard.

Lawyer in the news: Chris Webber, Squire Patton Boggs

14 February 2025

Firm represented Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak, who were granted rescission and damages by the High Court after buying a £32.5m moth-infested London mansion in 2019.

My legal life: Heledd Wyn, Rothley Law

7 February 2025

Partner, Bristol.

Lawyer in the news: Dino Nocivelli, Leigh Day

7 February 2025

Represented former dancer Ellen Elphick, who settled a legal claim against the Royal Ballet School for alleged body shaming.

My legal life: Chantal Davies, professor of law, University of Chester

2025-02-07T12:47:00+00:00

Director of the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity at the University of Chester law school and co-vice chair of the Law Society Women Solicitors Network Committee.

My legal life: Anna Mazzola, Centre for Women’s Justice

31 January 2025

Author and consultant solicitor, London

Lawyer in the news: Sara Stanger, Bond Turner

31 January 2025

Firm represents the bereaved families of Alice Da Silva Aguiar, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King who were murdered by Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last July.

Obituary: Quintin Barry

2025-01-30T14:54:00+00:00

Quintin Barry, who has died at the age of 88, 'was a man of remarkably diverse talent and achievement'.

Lawyer in the news: Andrew Kelton, Fish Legal

24 January 2025

In-house solicitor, Leominster.

My legal life: Jamie Hanley, Labaton Keller Sucharow

17 January 2025

Partner in the London office.

Lawyer in the news: Peter Neenan, Stewarts

17 January 2025

Represented the family of the late Leicester City Football Club chairman Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in what is believed to be the largest fatal accident claim in English history.

Family seeks record £2bn over football stadium helicopter crash

By John Hyde

My legal life: Jen Dinmore, Lewis Silkin

10 January 2025

Legal director in the digital, commerce and creative team, London

Lawyer in the news: Simon Robinson, Duncan Lewis

10 January 2025

Represented Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who the acting judge of the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory ruled were unlawfully detained for three years on the remote island of Diego Garcia.

My legal life: Natasha Mason, Bolt Burdon Kemp

6 December 2024

Solicitor in the military claims team, London.

Lawyer in the news: Tom Longstaff, KP Law

6 December 2024

The firm is representing hundreds of women in the UK planning to sue Johnson & Johnson over alleged links between its talcum powder products and cancer.

My legal life: Ray Chitham, Serious Fraud Office

29 November 2024

Case controller, London.

Lawyer in the news: Rebekah Finch, TLT

29 November 2024

Represented former footballer Kieron Dyer in his claims regarding voicemail interception and misuse of private information against newspaper publisher MGN Ltd.