Meet the team
Peter Haden
Chief Executive Officer
Peter Haden became Chief Executive Officer at Fletchers in November 2021. Peter is an experienced Board Executive with more than 25 years’ experience of leading…
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Adrian Denson
Chief Legal Officer
Adey’s background is in complex and catastrophic injury, having handled some of the biggest PI cases in the country. He leads all of our legal…
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Alex Kenny
Blume Chief Executive Officer
Alex has over 20 years’ experience of the legal industry, much of which has been spent leading our marketing and call centre operations. He is…
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Alex Lynch
Chief Financial Officer
Our Chief Financial Officer, Alex Lynch, joined Fletchers in 2016 as our Director of Finance, bringing 10 years of finance and accounting knowledge. Alex is…
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Zoe Holland MBE
Chief Commercial Officer
Zoe is also leading our Learning & Development transformation project, part of which is to develop inspiring and effective leaders to drive business success and…
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Alison Flaherty
Partner & Head of Clinical Negligence
Alison is a Partner and Head of Medical Negligence Serious Injury with over 15 years’ experience. Alison assists with the overall running of the Department…
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Bob Coupland
Partner & Head of Bike Claims
Bob is a Partner, with over 20 years’ experience as a solicitor specialising in personal injury and medical negligence. Before this, Bob was a…
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Charlotte Mackulin
Partner & Serious Injury Solicitor
Charlotte deals with the most complex and life-changing, catastrophic injury cases and is experienced in representing individuals who have suffered amputation, spinal cord injury, severe…
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Christian Beadell
Partner & Head of Legal Strategy & Ops
Christian is currently seconded to the Legal Strategy team to help lead delivery of a number of key projects across the Clinical Negligence, PI and…
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Dawn Bowdler
Partner & Head of Compliance
Dawn is our Head of Compliance and was made Partner after 10 years at Fletchers. Dawn has a wide knowledge of all things compliance, money…
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Matt Smith
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Matt usually handles claims of the utmost severity, including brain injuries suffered at birth, strokes, fatal claims and all other catastrophic injuries, and has settled…
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Emma Semwayo
Partner & Head of Medical Negligence
Emma is a Team Leader and Senior Solicitor in our medical negligence department. Emma is a skilled solicitor and supports in the leadership of her…
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Gerard Horton
Partner & Senior Serious Injury Solicitor
Alongside his legal role, Gerard has been active in assisting several charities; including Headway Central Lancashire, North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre in Southport, and…
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Guy Pomphrey
Partner & Senior Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Guy works on high value and complex cases with particular experience and expertise in cerebral palsy birth injury claims and fatal accident claims.
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Amy Kirk
Associate & Chartered Legal Executive – Clinical Negligence
Amy has a particular interest in deceased/preventable death claims, stillbirths, traumatic births, orthopaedic injuries, psychiatric injuries and group action work. Amy’s caseload specialises in claims…
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Iain Dodd
Partner & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Due to his exceptional results, Iain is now predominantly only instructed on claims exceeding £1 million, usually in relation to brain injury, spinal cord injury…
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Julia Eyton
Partner & CILEX/ Serious Injury Team Leader
In 2012, Julia won the prestigious award for Outstanding Case of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards, where an individual was injured in a…
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Kirsty Thomas-Horton
Partner & Head of Charities and Partnerships
Kirsty strives to make life easier for those who have suffered life-changing injuries, offering guidance throughout the claim. She’s also committed to various charity projects,…
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Michael Gray
Partner & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Michael’s ultimate focus is always on client care. During his time here at Fletchers, he has achieved truly life changing settlements for his clients, which…
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Saima Mazhar
Partner & Head of Clinical Negligence
Saima Mazhar is a Partner and Team Leader at Fletchers. With over 12 years of experience as a solicitor, Saima and her team have experience…
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Samantha Labor
Partner & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Samantha Labor is a Clinical Negligence Solicitor and after 3 and a half years at Fletchers, she has been made Partner. Qualifying in 1999, Samantha…
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Siobhan Thacker
Partner & Personal Injury Solicitor
Siobhan has a real passion for client care, implementing as much support as possible to try and put clients’ lives back on track. She also…
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Trevor Ward
Partner & Solicitor/ Birth Injury Team Leader
Trevor is the current Chief Assessor for the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel and has been for the last 3 years, and prior to that…
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Victoria Marsden
Partner & Head of ELPL
Vicky has worked in Personal Injury for 16 years. She specialises in employers and public liability cases of Multi-Track value and technical liability disputes. Vicky…
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Aimee Ratcliffe
Associate & Serious Injury Solicitor
Aimee is extremely passionate about catastrophic injury, and is driven to rebuild our clients’ lives, following what are often lengthy and complex legal cases. Aimee…
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Ami Dollery
Associate & Clincal Negligence Chartered Legal Exec
Her skills and commitment have been recognised with her being appointed as an Associate in the firm. She works as a senior lawyer in one…
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Andrew Hesketh
Associate & Head of Clinical Negligence
As one of the Heads of our Medical Negligence Team, Andrew is part of our leadership team, supporting and supervising our skilled teams in the…
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Bilal Qasim
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor/ Team Leader
Bilal is an experienced Medical Negligence Solicitor with a demonstrated history of working in the medical and health care industry. He qualified as a lawyer…
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Chris Harrold
Associate & Serious Injury Solicitor
Passionate about helping those who have sustained serious injuries, Chris and his team help empower clients to regain their life back after injury - whether this…
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Fiona Swarbrick
Associate & Head of Clinical Negligence
Fiona joined Fletchers in 2015 and has over 15 years of experience in personal injury and medical negligence claims. As a team leader, she is…
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Francesca Paul
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
She leads on the Group Action cases in the Department. Francesca has had overall conduct of the Parker Group Action cases which have concerned orthopaedic…
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Gemma Weeks
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Gemma is involved with her client’s life when they are at their most vulnerable developing trusted relationships with clients and their families. Gemma’s personality puts…
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Jayne Orme
Associate & Personal Injury Solicitor
She has successfully represented hundreds of clients during her career and is committed to helping motorcyclists who have been involved in non-fault accidents receive the…
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James Sharples
Associate, Negotiations Supervisor
James has been a key part of our cost team and has worked successfully in relation to cases involving Part 36 wins. In particular, in…
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Kate Lozynska
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Kate’s Team is a designated team dealing with amputation cases. She has a close affiliation with the Amputation Foundation and enjoys charitable work and fundraising.
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Katy Link
Associate & Clinical Negligence Chartered Legal Exec
Whilst Katy deals with a variety of clinical negligence cases, she has a keen interest in orthopaedic, cosmetic surgery and also paediatric cases. Aside from…
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Leanne Devine
Associate & Birth Injury Solicitor
As a dedicated Specialist Litigator, Leanne specialises in birth injury cases and is passionate about getting results for the many families she represents. Her unwavering…
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Lena Farnell
Associate & Personal Injury Team Leader
Lena prides herself on her problem solving skills and her efficient way of working. She enjoys securing the best results for her clients, particularly on…
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Lorna Bailey
Associate & Head of Learning and Development
Joining Fletchers in 2009, Lorna has a background in personal injury law and was Head of Fast Track for several years. Lorna has a passion…
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Louise Riley
Associate & Serious Injury Solicitor
She is highly motivated to get the best possible outcome for her clients and has achieved some outstanding results. Louise really cares about her clients…
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Michael Hagan
Associate & Head of International Injury
At Fletchers, Mike handles high profile and cutting-edge cases in the travel litigation field. He had recent success in running a ‘plain text’ interpretation argument…
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Michelle Heyes
Associate & Head of Serious Injury
In her role as Head of Department Michelle leads a team of highly skilled and experienced lawyers who work tirelessly to achieve the very best…
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Neil Downey
Associate and Serious Injury Solicitor
Neil has a wealth of experience in both pre-issue and litigated cases, currently handling a range of Road Traffic Accident, Employer Liability, Public Liability, and…
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Nicola Ryan-Donnelly
Associate & Serious Injury Solicitor
Nicola is passionate about helping those who have sustained serious injuries and is committed to empowering them to rebuild their lives, supporting them from the…
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Nicola Stanwix
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Nicola specialises in higher value and complex medical negligence claims some of which exceed £500k. She enjoys working on a variety of cases involving medical…
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Parbeen Alamgir
Associate & Senior Birth Injury Solicitor
Parbeen specialises in all types of birth injury claims and has developed a distinct interest and sub-speciality in women’s health. As a respected and dedicated…
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Paul Cahill
Associate & Senior Compliance Solicitor
Paul studied law at the University of Liverpool, before completing the LPC at the College of Law. Having qualified in 2008, Paul has worked in…
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Rebecca Kelly
Associate & Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Rebecca prides herself in building lasting relationships with her clients and being the voice of the seriously injured when they need her the most.
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Andrew Clark
Director of Legal Training
Andrew is a Partner and Director of Legal Training. He is responsible for overseeing the design and delivery of legal training across the group, as…
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Tim Moulton
Associate & Head of Clinical Negligence
As one of the heads of our medical negligence department, Tim supports our overall leadership by managing skilled solicitors across the business. He specialises in…
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Caroline Morris
Director of Serious Injury
Caroline’s tenacity is driven by her hope that every client will have the best life possible, post injury. She achieves rehabilitation options early so her…
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Charlene Mann
Director of Transformation
Charlene has over 20 years' experience of change delivery, specialising in new business ventures, mergers and acquisitions, product development and regulatory change. Her role also…
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Dan Taylor
Director of Integration - M&A
With extensive experience in Finance, Operations, and Technology, Dan is responsible for ensuring that all people, processes, and systems are integrated into the Group to…
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Georgia Briscoe
Director of Legal Strategy and Operations
Georgia is a Partner and Director of Legal Strategy and Operations, with over 20 years experience. She drives operational change in line with the wider…
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Kate Edwards
Director of Private Client
In 2020, Edwards was invited by Mr Justice Hayden to join the ‘Hive Committee’ – a small group of key individuals who could consult rapidly…
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Peter Rigby
Director of Medical Negligence
Specialising in catastrophic injury, Peter is Partner and also leads the medical negligence teams across our entire department. He has been with Fletchers since 2010,…
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Rob Plummer
Director of Infrastructure & Security
With over 20 years’ experience in IT and Security, Rob has worked across the energy, finance, manufacturing, education and tech sectors. Rob specialises in the…
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Tim Scott
Director of People
Tim is a Partner and leads our HR, Recruitment and Learning & Development teams. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Tim has over 20 years’…
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Tom Astbury
Director of Mergers & Acquisitions
Tom joined Fletchers in February 2022, having spent close to a decade working for Co-op Group across M&A, corporate development and strategy.
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Tony Armstrong
Director of Costs
Tony is a Director and has 34 years' experience of a broad spectrum of legal costs issues. He is responsible for operational and technical performance…
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Catherine Jarrett
Head of Client Care and Onboarding
Catherine understands how difficult it can be to make that first call to a solicitor and ensures that all clients feel fully supported when starting…
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Chris Gilbert
Head of Legal Strategy and Operations
Chris is responsible for looking after a team of Business Analysts, who work on a portfolio of projects to deliver change to the business. Chris specialises…
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Dale Owen
Head of FP&A
Dale and her team provide insights and strategic financial guidance, which play a crucial role in driving informed decision-making and help us to achieve our…
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Kayleigh Harrison
Head of Financial Integration & Accounts
ACCA qualified, Kayleigh joined Fletchers in 2015 and has held many roles across the finance function since joining the team.
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Ashley Nolan
Chartered Legal Executive
Since joining the Catastrophic Personal Injury Team here at Fletchers in 2012, Ashley has gained extensive experience of handling large and complex loss cases. Ashley…
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John Killen
Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Using only the best barristers and experts, his caseload typically involves cases valued over £100,000 but takes a special interest, regardless of value, in the…
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Julie Garner
Senior Clinical Negligence Solicitor & Team Leader
In total, Julie has 25 years’ experience in the legal sector and has been a Claimant Specialist Clinical Negligence Solicitor for over 15 years. Julie…
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Maya Patel
Clinical Negligence Solicitor
She deals with a wide range of complex, high value and often life-changing cases including birth injuries, delay in diagnosis of cancer and other conditions,…
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Natalie Richardson
Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Natalie is extremely passionate about birth injury work, as a member of her family suffered cerebral palsy because of clinical negligence. She is driven by…
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Peter Daly
Clinical Negligence Solicitor
Peter has a passion to positively influence his clients' lives, using his legal expertise built over a number of years. Outside of the office, Peter…
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Emily Greensmith
Personal Injury Solicitor
Emily has a vast wealth of experience working on neurotrauma cases, succeeding in brain injury claims for both adults in children. She has also worked…
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Sean Martin Gargon
Associate & Costs Lawyer
Sean has a wealth of experienced in all matters costs related and specialises in high value Clinical Negligence costs budgets and costs management. He undertakes…
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John Hutchings
Personal Injury Solicitor
John is looking forward to continuing his already well-established career in serious injury and continue making a difference to the lives of our clients, who…
