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Sally Moore
Work Department
Personal injury
Position
Described in legal directories as an outstanding and impeccable lawyer, Sally is head of the personal injury department comprising five partners, 13 solicitors and 19 paralegals/support staff. She qualified in 1989, joined Leigh Day in 1991 and was made partner in 1992. She specialises in high value personal injury and fatal accident claims. She has specialism in head/brain and severe injury cases including spinal injury and amputation. Examples of the types of case settled by Sally are: £5.4m part lump sum and part annual payments for a brain injured cyclist. In this case interim payments were secured for intensive rehabilitation to purchase equipment, therapies and to buy and adapt a home for the claimant. She secured a multi-million pound settlement for the widow and children of a cyclist killed on a charity bike ride. She has successfully obtained million pound plus settlements for clients who have suffered amputation, severe orthopaedic trauma and spinal cord injuries. She obtains interim payments to prevent her clients suffering financial hardship, also to fund rehabilitation, cover the cost of care and has secured funds to enable her clients to buy and adapt homes suited to their needs. She is hugely committed to her clients and their families and passionate about the work she does.
Career
Qualified 1989; trained in the City, then left to work in Seifert Sedley Williams; Leigh Day 1991 to date; partner 1992. She has taught advanced litigation on the Master’s degree course at Nottingham.
Memberships
Sally is currently chair of Headway West London, an organisation set up to support brain injury survivors in West London. She is a fellow of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), member of the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA), Headway – the Brain Injury Association and Child Brain Injury Legal Group. She has taught on the masters degree course at Nottingham University on advanced litigation.
Education
Whitgift Comprehensive School, Grimsby; University College, London (law degree); Law Society finals (special commendation).
Leisure
Family, cycling and the great outdoors.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Hall of Fame)Sally Moore
oversees the personal injury offering at Leigh Day, alongside head of international law Richard Meeran, and joint heads of industrial disease Harminder Bains and Daniel Easton. The collaboration between the international and personal injury teams compliments the wider firm’s human rights focus, an area in which Martyn Day and Sapna Malik are recognised experts; recent highlights in this space include an action involving allegations of forced labour and abuse of migrant workers in Malaysia. Additionally, the team has expertise in food allergy cases, spearheaded by Michelle Victor. The team also specialises in catastrophic injury cases, sitting on the legal panels of a number of hospital major trauma centres, as well as providing services to the British Cycling Federation and British Triathlon Association – senior associate Rory McCarron is the key name to note for such work. The asbestos and industrial disease team acts both on specific claims, including those involving mesothelioma victims, and wider issues affecting those impacted by asbestos-related diseases, including advising on proposed changes to the law. Ewan Tant is also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
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