Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas Experience Robert studied law at Pembroke College Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1989 at a large west country practice. After a broad training and later practice as a qualified solicitor in a range of fields Robert has specialized in the non-contentious field of commercial property in which he is widely […]

Ben Dures

Ben Dures

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas: Ben Dures qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and for 11 years was a Partner in a large East Anglian firm before joining Scott-Moncrieff.  For several years he has been listed in the Legal 500 as excelling in cases involving workplace and road traffic accidents. As well as a law degree he has a […]

Peter Garsden

Peter Garsden

Email: [email protected] Telephone : 020 3972 9011 PRACTICE AREAS Child Abuse Compensation Claims  – whilst the below is a summary of what I do, a much fuller explanation can be read on my microsite https://www.abuseadvice4survivors.co.uk/  which contains many helpful survivor guides to this very complicated area of law EXPERIENCE I was qualified in 1981. I […]

Yolanda Faulkner

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas: Experience: Yolanda Faulkner is a public law solicitor with a background in community care, housing, mental health, and human rights. She has a particular interest in children’s rights: unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors; children detained under section of the Mental Health Act 1983; and disabled children. Yolanda qualified as a solicitor in 2004. […]

Lorraine Finney

Lorraine Finney

Email: [email protected] Practice areas Experience Lorraine qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and is accredited as a Senior Litigator with APIL (the Association of Personal Injury Solicitors). She has worked in many different parts of the country during her career – Yeovil, Portsmouth, Stoke-on-Trent – but since 1997 has been living and working in Derbyshire. Since […]

Andrew Frederick

Andrew Frederick

Email: [email protected] View Andrews’s website here. Practice Areas Actions Against the Police (and Public Bodies) Experience: Andrew has more than 10 years experience helping members of the public with civil claims against the police, HM Prison Service, the Home Office, magistrates’ courts, and other detaining authorities (including the private companies Serco, G4S, and Sodexho). He has […]

Sam Genen

Sam Genen

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas Experience A native New Yorker, Sam has a varied background in practice underpinned by his knowledge of litigation in equality and discrimination law. He honed his skills in America working on death penalty cases and personal injury litigation. In his varied and diverse career, Sam has developed expertise in complex civil […]

Ian Insley

Ian Insley

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas: Experience: Ian has degrees in law from the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge. He qualified as a solicitor in 1981 at Coward Chance (now Clifford Chance) and spent five years there in the International Shipping Department doing both “wet” and “dry” work. In 1986 Ian moved to the then new firm […]

Laura Janes

Laura Janes

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas: Experience: Laura is a solicitor specialising in the rights of vulnerable people in detention in both penal and mental health settings. She was appointed an Honorary KC in March 2025. Her practice with the firm includes civil claims, community care and public law matters. She is a visiting academic at South […]

Beverley Lambert

Beverley Lambert

Email: [email protected] Practice Areas: Bev has been practising law since 2004, she leads a team of lawyers who advise a wide range of clients including commercial landlords, banks, businesses and insolvency practitioners. Prior to joining Scott-Moncrieff & Associates Bev spent four years as a member of the restructuring team at Eversheds and four years as […]