Lucy was just brilliant, so knowledgeable, so professional, she understood exactly the injustice I’d suffered and she was very articulate and thorough in her questions to the defendant, she was respectful and professional while being completely on the ball, not missing a thing and probing answers that weren’t fully satisfactory.
Employers Liability Lay Client - July 2026
Lucy is regularly instructed in all areas of personal injury and maintains a busy practice across the Fast, Intermediate, and Multi Track. Lucy has extensive experience with drafting pleadings in complex matters across the broad spectrum of personal injury litigation. She welcomes instructions from both Claimants and Defendants across the following areas:
· Employer’s Liability
· Occupier’s Liability
· Fraud & Fundamental Dishonesty
· Product Liability
· Road Traffic Accidents
· Credit Hire & Subrogated Losses
· Highways Act Claims
· Defective Premises
· Injuries Involving Animals
· Infant and Protected Party Approval Hearings & Advice
· CCMCs and interlocutory applications
· Coroners’ inquests on behalf of both families and interested parties.
· Clinical Negligence
Lucy takes particular pride in applying a meticulous approach to representing both Claimants and Defendants. She has a keen interest in disputing safe systems of work and has often been successful in obtaining damages & beating offers where liability has been vehemently disputed.
She is regularly instructed to draft pleadings, schedules of loss, conduct conferences with experts, and consider liability, quantum, and evidential issues at all stages from pre-litigation through to trial.
Lucy is happy to discuss cases prior to accepting instructions and regularly acts on a conditional fee basis.
For Defendants, Lucy has a growing fraud practice. Having joined Cobden House from an internationally renowned Defendant solicitors’ firm, Lucy is well versed in drafting Defences, considering commercial strategy, and applying a scientific and creative approach when defending Personal Injury and Credit Hire litigation. She welcomes instructions which a focus on challenging causation.
Lucy regularly secures dismissals for insurer clients in Defendant cases.
Lucy is often successful in dismissing hire claims in their totality for ‘need’ and ‘enforceability’ of credit hire agreements. Lucy’s forensic approach to impecuniosity disclosure will often result in BHR evidence being successful at trial despite a positive pleading of impecuniosity.
During pupillage Lucy attended conferences and hearings in complex brain injury litigation, cases involving public bodies in both civil and inquest jurisdictions, complex strategy fraud matters involving surveillance, and novel cases; notably the applicability of the TUPE regulations to personal Injury litigation.
Lucy is also a member of the Attorney General's 'Junior Junior' Scheme and accepts instructions from all government, insurance and regulatory bodies
Lucy has noting brief experience of coronial proceedings investigating deaths in Road Traffic Accidents and has experience of inquests in custodial settings and hospitals and is keen to develop her practice in this area. She welcomes instructions on behalf of both families and interested persons.
S v D (2026) Lucy acted on behalf of the Claimant and successfully obtained Judgment for damages where a re-purposed cabinet injured the Claimant when it was not fit for purpose under the PUWER regulations, which was denied by the Defendant to trial.
J V W (2026) Lucy made successful submissions that working to unduly onerous time pressures as a lone worker, caused the Claimant to run and subsequently injure themselves at work. The Claimant was successful in obtaining Damages and no contributory negligence was found.
W v M (2026) Acting for the Claimant, Lucy was successful in arguing that the Defendant had encouraged and allowed the Claimant to engage in an unsafe system of work, contrary to the training documents they supplied and relied upon. The Claimant was not found to be contributory negligent despite having 20+ years’ experience in his industry.
H v A (2026) Lucy secured judgment for the Claimant in a Road Traffic Accident after eliciting that the Defendant’s vehicle had mechanical faults which he had previously not fixed, despite his statement referring to his vehicle being free from fault.
K v C (2026) Acting for the Defendant insurer, Lucy successfully argued that entering into a hire agreement within 24 hours of an accident, prior to receiving the engineers report which showed a roadworthy car with minimal was unreasonable and the entirety of the claim was dismissed on need. Lucy also secured unreasonable conduct costs.
S v A (2026) Acting for the Defendant, Lucy successfully argued that the credit hire agreement was unenforceable. Having robustly cross examined the Claimant on his understanding of the agreement, Lucy secured a confession that the Claimant would not have entered into the agreement had he not been provided representations that his hire was free.
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Outside of her professional life, Lucy enjoys all things creative. She is an avid reader, listens to music of all genres, sings, and plays acoustic guitar.
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