Stewarts Law LLP

International Injury and Aviation

Cheryl specialises in complex cross-border serious injury claims, and has 15 years’ experience acting for seriously injured people worldwide. She acts exclusively for adults and children who have been injured abroad while on holiday, working or travelling by air, coach, car or sea.

Cheryl’s experience includes running and leading teams on complex, high-value claims, in particular acting for patients with brain and spinal injuries. She also has experience in claims involving multiple fractures, psychological trauma, fatal accidents and clinical negligence.

Cheryl deals exclusively with cases which involve a cross-border element and specialises in conflicts of law issues, as well as in International Convention claims including the Montreal and Athens Conventions. She often acts for bereaved families in fatal accident claims, including representing families during the inquest.

Experience

• Represented the claimant in Hutchinson v Mapfre España Compañia de Seguros Y Reaseguros SA and another[2020] EWHC 178 (QB).
• Represented a man in his early 30s who was hit as a pedestrian while in Rome, securing an approved significant eight-figure settlement.
• Represented a teenage US national who was hit as a pedestrian while visiting family in the UK, securing an approved settlement for her and defeated a liability challenge ahead of trial. This case involved facilitating access to specialist advice on transfer of protected funds to from the UK courts to the US.
• Represented a teenage coach passenger who sustained an incomplete spinal cord injury while on a school trip in France.

Cheryl trained at Irwin Mitchell, where she qualified in 2011. She was promoted to Associate in 2014, Senior Associate in 2018 and Partner in 2020. Cheryl moved from Birmingham in 2017 to set up and lead the firm’s Manchester International Injury team.

Cheryl is a member of the American Association for Justice, where she serves on the Board of Governors as Revitalisation Officer for the UK. She is a specialist in Accidents Abroad and an accredited Senior Litigator with APIL. Cheryl also sits on the Executive Board of PEOPIL and is the honorary co-secretary of the Manchester Law Society. In addition, she chairs the Society’s specialist Personal Injury and Medical Negligence Focus Group and actively contributes to its International Practice Group. She is regularly invited to speak at both domestic and international conferences on issues relating to cross-border litigation.

Cheryl lives in Cheshire and has connections across the North West. In her spare time she enjoys yoga, keeping fit, cooking, spending time with family, following Formula 1, visiting the coast and taking photographs of her cats.