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John SherringtonJohn is the senior partner of Serious Law, and a solicitor with over 32 years' experience of personal injury and other litigation. He dealt with his first million pound case in 1987, and was a co-founder of the firm in 1989.
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Matthew DixonMatthew Dixon is a partner of Serious Law, and has over 30 years' experience in personal injury. He co-founded the firm in 1989.
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Tim WaltersTim Walters is the managing partner of Serious Law. He co-founded the firm and has over 30 years’ experience as a personal injury lawyer. Tim is also a deputy of the Court of Protection, and heads up the Court of Protection department.
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Ben PriestleyBen is the Head of the Catastrophic Injury Unit and has extensive experience of dealing with a wide variety of cases involving injuries of utmost severity.
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Jonathan SyddallJonathan is a partner at Serious Law and a member of the Catastrophic Injury Team.
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Peter EckersleyPeter is a senior associate. He has been with Serious Law since 1995 after graduating from Salford University.
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Oliver Shaw
Oliver is a Senior Associate within the Catastrophic Injury Team and has over 20 years' experience of personal injury litigation.
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Christopher LeckyChris is a Senior Associate at Serious Law having stared his legal career in 2008 and joined the firm in 2014. He has amassed extensive experience in dealing with all types of serious injury and major trauma cases arising from a broad range of circumstances.
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Gillian LakesGillian has been a qualified solicitor since 1998. She has worked for several large firms prior to joining Serious Law. Gillian has a strong expertise in the handling of cases arising from road traffic accidents, accidents at work and military cases.
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Jerard KnottJerard qualified in 2002 and has acted purely for Claimants since then. Jerard represents people following acts of clinical negligence and following non-clinical catastrophic injuries.
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Hayley MartinezHayley joined the Serious Law team in April 2017 having previously specialised in Road Traffic Accident, Employer Liability, Public Liability, Industrial Disease and Military claims.
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Claire Hutchinson
Joining Serious Law in 2019 Claire has been a qualified Solicitor since 2010 but practising in personal injury for over 17 years.
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Caroline Dunn
Caroline has been a qualified Solicitor since 2012. She has experience in handling a wide range of cases including accident at work claims, public liability claims and road traffic accident claims. She has a specialist focus on brain and spinal injuries.
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Rebecca HiltonRebecca's experience includes Road Traffic Accidents, Fatal Accident Claims, Accidents at Work, Public Liability Accidents, Claims to the CICA (including incidents of sexual abuse) and Clinical Negligence Claims.
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