Russell-Cooke Solicitors

With the publication of Chambers and Partners UK 2025, we are proud to see more of our teams and lawyers ranked than ever, including first-time and improved listings across the full breadth of our practice areas. We are particularly pleased to see our family and children practice promoted to Band 1, our medical negligence team moved up to Band 2, and our education team moved up to Band 3. As ever, we are grateful to our clients, referrers and peers for their feedback and support. Congratulations to everybody recognised in this year’s edition! View the firm's full rankings at the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e4RqZcp6

📢 Applications are now open for our 2027 training contract and 2025 vacation scheme! Visit the link below to discover the pathways to your legal career at Russell-Cooke and complete your application: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e-AY583m

This week we welcomed corporate tax expert Conor Brindley to Russell-Cooke. Bringing over two decades’ experience to the firm, Conor will work across transactional teams to provide integrated advice to clients at all points in their lifecycle. “I am excited to be joining Russell-Cooke's top-ranked team at this exciting juncture, and greatly look forward to helping enhance our existing services and build out our corporate tax offering to clients.” Read more at the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dQKArx85

The Times Best Law Firms 2025, published today, lists Russell-Cooke for the seventh consecutive year since the report's inception in 2018. Russell-Cooke has been commended across three of the report’s key categories: Business Law, Public Law, and Private Client, as well as in five specialist areas: Charities, Crime, Family, Inheritance and Succession Planning/Private Client, and Landlord and Tenant. Our property litigation team's work continuing to represent the bereaved, survivors and residents at the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire after the publication of the Phase 2 Report receives special recognition, alongside Russell-Cooke Family’s success in securing the return of a child to Ukraine in a Hague Convention abduction case. A trusted publication like The Times serves as a respected indicator of excellence and reliability. We extend our thanks to everyone who nominated us. Read more via the link below: 🔗https://lnkd.in/epmTEQD7

Two weeks to go until the London Build Expo on 20-21 November 2024, the UK's biggest festival of construction! Our Russell-Cooke construction team, led by Pippa Beesley and Mark Fletcher, will be there on the day to answer all your legal questions on construction and development as well as construction disputes. Register to attend for free using the link below, and visit us at stand H50. We look forward to connecting with you! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e_miciaX

Earlier this autumn, the Care Quality Commission published a damning report that criticised almost half of all UK maternity units as 'inadequate' or 'requires improvement'.   Consultant and former nurse Bernadette McGhie identifies the challenges facing maternity units, and explains why maternity services are in urgent need of reform. Read more about the report's findings and find out how Russell-Cooke can support those affected by inadequate maternity care via the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/evvPCCWA

"In some instances, what a person may discover can be absolutely life-shattering: that the family they have grown up in is not actually their biological family at all."   Following recent BBC coverage of the first reported UK case of 'birth-switching', associate Jason Tang explains what it is, what's at stake, and why seeking compensation is a challenge—speaking from the experience of working on a similar claim. Follow the link below to read the article in full: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6eN2rhv

Are you looking to train as a solicitor or get a flavour of life as a trainee at Russell-Cooke? Discover the pathways to your legal career through our dynamic training contract and immersive vacation scheme. Applications open a week today on 8 November 2024. Learn more about our 2027 training contract and 2025 vacation scheme via the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e-AY583m

Autumn Budget—as 'frightening' as feared? As we digest Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ announcements from yesterday, this Halloween, partner James Cook unpicks the ‘scary’ and ‘not-so-scary’ details and the potential impact on the private wealth sector. The Chancellor’s Budget landed some heavy blows on higher earners and investors. While VAT and income tax remain steady (a ‘not-so-scary’ relief for many), businesses face a 1.2% National Insurance (NI) hike. Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and Inheritance Tax (IHT) are set to increase. The abolition of the non-dom regime may also bring far-reaching changes for those with overseas wealth. "The Chancellor’s time at the despatch box mirrored the Prime Minister’s sentiments that those with the broadest shoulders should bear the largest burden—but we now have some clarity over what this Government deems ‘broad shoulders’ to mean." Discover more about the impact on the private wealth sector via the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eywHx7yn

Russell-Cooke associates Amy Anderson and Ellie Miles were honoured to be amongst the attendees of the 20th-anniversary celebration of the Birth Trauma Association (UK), a leading charity supporting individuals affected by birth trauma and the advisory body for the 2024 Birth Trauma All-Party Parliamentary Group’s (APPG) report. The event featured powerful speeches from MPs Theo Clarke and Rosie Duffield. Also amongst the attendees was TV personality Louise Thompson, author of 'Lucky: Learning to Live Again', in which she shares her personal experience with the lasting impact of birth trauma. Learn more about the event and the important work of the BTA via the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eg2Q3e5D