1. Media contacts
Tom MacGuinness
Injury & Medical Claims
tom.macguinness@anthonygold.co.uk
020 7940 4079
Eileen Donaghey
Private Client & Commercial
eileen.donaghey@anthonygold.co.uk
020 7940 4038
Tom provides PR support to the firms Injury & Medical
Claims team. He works with journalists from national and
regional press, as well as sourcing experts within the firm
for comment on the news agenda.
Personal Injury
Leading firm with a reputation for handling catastrophic
injury claims including injuries to the brain, spinal cord
and cases involving limb loss. International expertise,
acting for British nationals injured in foreign jurisdictions.
Clinical Negligence
With two former nurses and a qualified medical doctor in
the team, we are well placed to provide insight from both
the medical and legal perspective of news stories. As well as
providing commentary on NHS matters, we are also highly
experienced in pursuing cases against the private sector,
including acting for those who are resident abroad and who
come to the UK for specifically for specialist private medical
treatment. Main areas of work include complex medicine
and rare medical conditions including; birth injuries and
cerebral palsy; neurological, neurosurgical and spinal
injuries; emergency and intensive care; and general
internal medicine.
Eileen manages the private client departments and
commercial PR within the firm. These departments
include Family, Housing, Conveyancing, Wills and
Probate, Contentious Trusts, Commercial and the
Court of Protection.
The firm can provide areas to comment on all
of these matters but has particular expertise in:
Housing disrepair
The team, led by Andrew Brookes, is consistently ranked top
in Legal 500 and Chambers including a number of the team
ranked as leading individuals. Giles Peaker is a well-known
figure amongst housing law. The team regularly comment
on disrepair cases, homelessness issues and housing and
leasehold disputes.
Property Litigation
We remain at the forefront of legislative changes in the
private rented sector. The team acts mainly for agents, and
commercial and residential landlords. David Smith who
heads the team is the Policy Director for the Residential
Landlords Association. David can provide comment on
forthcoming legislation affecting landlords and letting
agents. We can also advise on deposit protection issues,
property licensing, Right to Rent and HMOs.
Family
A highly regarded team headed by Kim Beatson who is
well known and highly respected within Family law. The
department has grown in 2016 with the addition of two
new Partners, David Emmerson and Sarah Hughes. The
team is particularly known for their Mediation work and
Alternative Dispute Resolution. We regularly provide
comment for this area alongside prenuptial agreements
and wider divorce issues.
Contentious Trusts & Estates
With one of the largest contentious probate teams in
London, the team who are again listed as STEP Award finalist
in 2016 is headed by David Wedgwood. The team have one of
the most diverse client bases in London and regularly act for
clients who lack capacity. The team is available to comment
on all aspects of contentious trust work and in particular
estates where the executor lacks capacity.
We are a large independent law firm of
28 partners and around 150 staff and are
in the top 200 law firms in England & Wales.
We were founded in Streatham in 1963 where
we still have a high street branch. We have
another branch in Elephant and Castle. These
are important to us as they keep us close to
our community roots.
Our main office, where most of us are based, is
in London Bridge. We don’t intend to ever cut
off from our roots but, in the digital age, we
don’t want to be limited by geography.
About the firm