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Helen is a Partner in the Personal Injury and Medical Negligence division at Moore Barlow. She represents those who have suffered serious, often life threatening, injuries through no fault of their own.
She has been a qualified solicitor for 35 years. She has been ranked as an eminent practitioner for several years now by the Chambers UK Guide to the legal profession. She is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and an externally accredited brain injury specialist. She was a founder member of both the Law Society (now SRA) Personal Injury Panel and Clinical Negligence Panel.
Between 2016 and 2025 Helen was the elected Chair of first Barlow Robbins and then Moore Barlow. She is proud of the fact that she led a business into merger and co-designed Moore Barlow as a brand-new law firm with a unique vision and set of values based on making a difference to those Moore Batlow serves.
Her career focus and passion, however, has been the legal representation and support of people with acquired brain injury.
Civil litigation is an overwhelming prospect for most people. She aims to make the complex simple and guide her clients and their families along the journey so that they understand as much as they wish to and feel more in control as a result. She prioritises rehabilitation and assistance for clients and their families. Her aim is to restore as good a quality of life as it can be achieve, whilst at the same time driving the claim to its successful conclusion. She has an extensive track record of settlements worth many millions of pounds each.
For over 20 years Helen has also been a professional Court of Protection Deputy, for people who have lost the capacity to make their own decisions. She has walked alongside clients well after their claims have settled. She knows what happens next, over the long term, and she brings that experience to the table for the benefit of everyone she works with.
She has been described by Legal 500 as “a star individual who has huge experience in this field and great client care skills”.
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For 19 years she was a trustee of Headway Surrey, which means she understands all too well the pressures on the public and charitable sector finances in this area. And how hard it can be for individuals to get help sometimes without a substantial compensation award. She remains a supporter of both this and its national parent charity Headway.
She founded the Surrey Acquired Brain Injury Forum as a networking and training vehicle for professionals working with brain injury survivors, partly as a way of encouraging and supporting joined up thinking between professional disciplines. She continues to play an active part in its work.
She enjoys great working relationships with health and social care professionals across the country and now has an extensive network, which helps her to signpost clients to the services which will benefit them.
