Rachel Seddon

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Rachel is a Senior Associate Solicitor and APIL-accredited Senior Litigator experienced in catastrophic injury, clinical negligence and employers’ liability.

With a focus since law school on civil litigation, medical and employment matters, she has combined her interests in her practice and successfully represented many clients from high-risk industries and servers of the Crown who have suffered serious injury or illness as a result of their work, including construction workers, utilities and infrastructure workers, members of the armed forces and emergency services.

Her caseload is varied and includes cases involving serious contraventions of health and safety law as identified by the HSE, construction and demolition site incidents, falls from height, machinery accidents, electrocutions and burns.

Since joining Express, she has recovered substantial damages for a client who suffered traumatic partial amputations to their fingers in an industrial accident, and negotiated a six-figure settlement in a fall from height case in which liability was disputed.

Earlier in her career, her notable cases include representing a serving soldier, who after being injured on duty, suffered complications which led to an elective below-knee amputation. Causation was disputed; however, she negotiated a seven-figure out of court settlement package which included a range of bespoke prosthetics, access to post-service rehabilitation, adapted accommodation and a substantial award to compensate for future loss of earnings and pension. She also represented the family and dependants of a soldier tragically killed when the Snatch Land Rover in which he was travelling did not withstand an IED blast in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Whilst the defendant, Ministry of Defence, maintained it had a complete defence to the civil breach of duty and human rights claims presented, settlement was favourably negotiated and approved by the high court.

Rachel has also represented a number of clients with incomplete spinal cord injury and subtle traumatic brain injury. Additionally, she was part of the legal team that recovered a multi-million pound settlement plus provisional damages for marine X who became T4 complete ASIA A paraplegic during adventurous training overseas.