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Yvonne Kestler
Work Department
Police Law: Mainly Claimant
Position
Yvonne is an associate solicitor in the Human Rights department specialising in actions against the Police. Yvonne acts in a wide range of claims against the police and other public bodies for false imprisonment, assault, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in public office and claims under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010. Yvonne acts for clients in private law claims for compensation and public law challenges for judicial review. Yvonne also represents families at inquests. Yvonne has acted in claims for unlawful arrest and detention on the grounds of race and/or religious discrimination. Yvonne successfully obtained compensation from the Police for a failure to recognise an individual as a victim of trafficking. Yvonne acted for the applicant in R (on the application of Silvera) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire successfully challenging the decision of a Coroner not to resume an inquest. Yvonne is recognised in the Legal 500 for fighting ‘exceptionally hard’ for her clients
Career
Yvonne joined Leigh Day as an assistant solicitor in February 2016. Yvonne was promoted to associate solicitor from April 2022. Yvonne has significant experience in actions against the police having practiced in this area prior to joining Leigh Day.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
Practitioners at Leigh Day are ‘fearless in their mission to break new legal ground’, acting across a wide array of health and social care claims, inquests, inquiries, actions against the police and state, and judicial review proceedings. On the domestic front, the team represents individuals, NGOs, and charities, while the international and group litigation department focuses on holding big business and governments to account for injury, loss, and abuse. The latter is led jointly by Richard Meeran, a pioneer in claims against UK-domiciled multinationals, and Sapna Malik, who has built a reputation in landmark litigation against the state. Environment, immigration detention, and migrant rights specialist Jamie Beagent and privacy and data breaches expert Gene Matthews head up the human rights offering. Tessa Gregory, who has made waves in environmental litigation and matters of national security, Daniel Leader, who excels in complex multi-party claims, group actions, and torts, and Sean Humber, who focuses on privacy issues, prisoner rights, and discrimination, continue to be part of the firm’s vanguard of civil liberties defenders, as do prisons team head Benjamin Burrows and inquests lead Emma Jones. Andrew Lord, Kate Egerton, and Yvonne Kestler are further names to note.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Real estate > Environment
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Insurance > Product liability: claimant