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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
A solicitor with over 20 years' experience of personal injury litigation. Oliver also has over 10 years legal operations management experience at some of our other group companies.
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Richard CrabtreeRichard is a senior solicitor at Serious Law. He is described in Chambers and Partners 2017 as a ‘very astute’ acquired brain injury specialist who is ‘passionate about his clients’.
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Christopher LeckyChris joined Serious Law in March 2014 after initially working in commercial litigation and professional negligence.
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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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