Senior Partner Martyn Day
- Partners : 23
- Assistants: 31
- Other fee-earners: 45
The Firm Leigh Day & Co specialises in many aspects of national and international personal injury and accident work, human rights, clinical negligence and multi-party actions. Lawyers at Leigh Day & Co are committed to offering an exceptionally high quality service to all clients. The firm was set up by Sarah Leigh OBE and Martyn Day in June 1987 to represent individuals and their families. This remains the firm's core value as it continues to grow across all departments.
Principal Areas of Work
Accident & Personal Injury: The firm deals with a full range of personal injury claims from more straight forward road traffic accidents to accidents causing complex head and spinal injuries. The firm has specialist legal expertise in actions on behalf of sportsmen and women, in particular, cyclists, asbestos-related disease and latex allergies.
Administrative & Public Law: This department undertakes a large number of high profile judicial reviews of decisions taken by public bodies. Its clients include individuals, non-government groups and objectors to local authority decisions with the firm's most prominent case being the challenge to the decision of the Serious Fraud Office to drop its investigation into BAE Systems plc and Saudi Arabia, and the case of Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed
Clinical Negligence: The firm has a leading reputation for specialist clinical negligence work, concentrating on cases involving serious disabilities and death, and is well known for its work in the delayed diagnosis of cancer.
Employment: The firm has experience in the field of disability rights and education discrimination and is a member of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) litigation panel. The firm has expanded its Employment Law Practice this year as it is joined by the Employment Discrimination Team from niche firm Palmer Wade, including Joanna Wade and Camilla Palmer.
Environment: The firm is at the cutting edge of environmental law, specialising in supporting claims as a result of exposure to pollution (radiation, chemicals, pesticides, sewage in the sea) together with industrial disease and nuisance claims.
Human Rights: The Human Rights Department offers expertise in areas where human rights are of growing importance such as health and community care, medical ethics, special needs education, child abuse, nuisance, confidentiality and planning. The firm's expertise also cover specialist cases like representing ex-SAS soldier, Ben Griffin who is seeking to lift a gagging order that is preventing him talking about coalition forces in Iraq.
Multi-Party Actions: Under Martyn Day, the firm has pioneered legal developments in multi-party cases on behalf of claimants in the UK and overseas. Issues include asbestos-related disease, claims against the Ministry of Defence and more recently representing thousands of individuals who allege they have been exposed to toxic waste on the Ivory Coast.
Product Liability: Leigh Day & Co has extensive experience in handling product liability cases, many of which are undertaken as class actions.