About usKey team members
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 Lakes
Gillian 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 Knott
Jerard 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 Martinez
Hayley 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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Paul Pike
Paul joined the team in December 2021 as a Senior Solicitor. Paul has over 19 years' experience acting exclusively for personal injury claimants and has been a senior litigator accredited member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
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Tom BrayshawTom has worked in the field of Personal Injury for 8 years. Tom’s particular specialism is in Road Traffic Accident cases and has experience in EL/PL, CICA, MIB cases alongside other areas of law.
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