Coodes Solicitors

Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury

Partner

Julie Hatton trained with locally renowned Clinical Negligence firm Preston Goldburn and re-joined Coodes as a Partner in July 2018 after a short period of working as a clinical negligence specialist with another South West firm.

With more than 30 years’ clinical negligence experience, since 2003 she has been an accredited specialist with the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and has been a member of APIL since 1997, becoming a Senior Litigator and Clinical Negligence accredited specialist.

Julie is ranked in the 2025 edition of Chambers and Partners.

Julie was part of the team which won the Clinical Negligence Team of the Year at the 2024 PI Awards, and was herself shortlisted for Outstanding Case of the Year

Law Society Clinical Negligence Accredited Specialist

APIL Clinical Negligence Accredited Specialist

APIL Senior Litigator

Chartered Legal Executive (1997)

Chartered Legal Executive Litigator (Civil Litigation) 2026