| Leigh Day & Co | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | London |
| No. of offices | 1 |
| No. of attorneys | 72 |
| Major practice areas | Clinical negligence, employment discrimination, human rights, personal injury and industrial diseases |
| Date founded | 1987 |
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| www.leighday.co.uk | |
Leigh Day & Co is a firm of personal injury solicitors that was set up in 1987. The firm was founded by Sarah Leigh OBE and Martyn Day and now has more than 100 members of staff, including 24 partners. Following Sarah Leigh’s retirement Martyn Day became senior partner of the firm.
The firm specialises in personal injury and human rights work. It is consistently ranked highly in all its areas of practice by its peers, for example by Chambers guide to the legal profession[1] and Legal 500[2]. In May 2009 Leigh Day joined forces with employment discrimination firm Palmer Wade.
Leigh Day & Co is accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for personal injury and clinical negligence work. It is an accredited practice with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and on the specialist clinical negligence panel of AvMA, (Action against Medical Accidents). Six of the firm’s clinical negligence partners and three of the firm’s personal injury solicitors are accredited by the Law Society as specialists in their fields.[3]
Martyn Day was invited to be an inaugural member of the Times’ list of the most powerful and influential individuals in the law today.[4] Richard Meeran was invited to give evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights together with representatives of Amnesty International, Action Aid and the Corporate Responsibility Coalition. The committee published a report, Any of our business? Human rights and the private sector based on this and other evidence in December 2009
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Frances Swaine, Managing partner of Leigh Day, has worked with Margaret Humphreys, founder of the Child Migrants Trust for a number of years. The UK Government apologised to this group of people on 24.2.10 for the controversial child migration policy which operated in the UK as late as the 1960s.[9] Richard Stein represents Binyam Mohamed in his efforts to force the UK Government to release details of his mistreatment which allegedly occurred with the knowledge of British secret services.[10] He represents Reprieve who are challenging the lawfulness of the Government’s series of ‘torture policies'.[11]
Leigh Day & Co has been instructed by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights to represent Kenyans who allege that they tortured during the repression of the Mau Mau uprising by the British Colonial Government in the 1950s and early 1960s.[12] Richard Meeran is working with the Legal Resources Centre running a group claim against Anglo American South Africa on behalf of gold miners who have contracted silicosis.[13] Leigh Day obtained compensation for 30,000 Ivory Coast citizens for injuries suffers following the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan in August 2006.[14]
Russell Levy represented CNN correspondent Andrew Brown who was awarded £4.5m in damages after spinal surgery.[15]
Leigh Day provides legal services to members of both British Cycling and the British Triathlon Federation. The firm is on the legal panel of the Child Brain Injury Trust, the UK Limb Loss Information Centre. It is an accredited practice with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. Sally Moore represented Evan Reynolds who lost his hand in a car accident. He has since been fitted with an i-limb hand.[16]
Camilla Palmer represents Miriam O’Reilly, a BBC journalist who was sacked from Countryfile in a sex and age discrimination claim.[17]