People – Hugh James

Nikolai Llewellyn

George Tossell — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:11:08 +0000

Nikolai Llewellyn is a Senior Associate within the Military department at Hugh James. He advises current and former military personnel with various health conditions and injuries, with a particular focus on occupational disease such as noise induced hearing loss and non-freezing cold injury.

Sophie Birch

George Tossell — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:32:46 +0000

Sophie Birch is a Senior Associate in the Clinical Negligence team, based in the Manchester office. Sophie has over 10 years’ experience in advising and supporting clients who have suffered serious injuries as a result of negligent medical treatment.

Sophie is experienced in dealing with a wide range of clinical negligence cases including those involving surgical negligence, delays in diagnosis and injuries resulting in death. As well as representing her own clients, Sophie also supports the Partners in the team with high value and complex cases including those involving amputation, brain injury, birth injury and spinal injury.

Samantha Hind

George Tossell — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:33:09 +0000

Samantha Hind is a Senior Associate in our Court of Protection team based from our Manchester office. Sam acts as professional deputy for clients who have sustained serious brain injuries which have impacted upon their capacity to make financial decisions for themselves.

Jemma Valvona

George Tossell — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:45:21 +0000

Jemma Valvona is a Senior Associate in our Serious Injury team and is based in our Southampton office. She specialises in claims where adults have suffered traumatic brain injuries, amputations and polytrauma.

Kelly Knight

George Tossell — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:53:59 +0000

Kelly Knight specialises in matters relating to the Court of Protection in relation to an individual’s property and financial affairs. She also advises in relation to personal injury trusts.

Jonathan Syddall

George Tossell — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:02:15 +0000

Jonathan Syddall, a senior associate in the serious injury department, has acted in the field of serious personal injury for over 28 years.

Jonathan joined Hugh James in January 2024, having previously been a partner at a Legal 500 Tier 1 firm, which he joined in 1995.

Jonathan has been the lead lawyer dealing with cases involving catastrophic and serious injuries. He has acted exclusively for claimants throughout his career. He specialises in high-value claims including spinal injury, brain injury, amputations, polytrauma and fatal accidents.