The Team
Our team of lawyers are recognised by their peers and clients in the Legal 500 and Chambers Guide to Clients publications for their expertise in housing, corporate, commercial litigation and personal injury.
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Amy Churchill
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Amy has been part of the team for over 7 years and has combined work with training and study, resulting in her being admitted as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in October 2004. She is now currently doing the Legal Practice Course to qualify as a solicitor. Amy has a great deal of experience dealing with trespassers, unauthorised occupiers, section 21 proceedings etc. She also has a case load of more complex anti social behaviour cases and other housing matters.
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Beth King Partner |
Beth qualified as a solicitor in 1986 and since then has specialised in personal injury litigation. She is head of the firm’s Personal Injury department. She is an accredited member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel and belongs to the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Most of Beth’s work involves acting for people seriously injured in the course of their employment, for example, while using defective machinery or because of their employer’s unsafe system of work. She occasionally represents our major clients in defence of injury claims which their insurers do not cover.
She also conducts professional negligence claims against other solicitors arising out of advice given in personal injury cases.
Beth has significant expertise in legal costs issues and sits as a Solicitor Assessor in the High Court assisting Judges in costs appeals.
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Caroline Ward Conveyancing Manager |
Caroline has worked for a variety of firms since 1981. She joined Marsons in April 2007. She has extensive experience in all residential sales and purchases, shared ownerships and sales by auction.
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Claire Pennycard Paralegal |
Claire has been a paralegal with the team for over 9 years. She is a part qualified legal executive. She provides an efficient and cost effective resource to our social housing clients in dealing with such matters as rent arrears, assured short-holds, warrants for possession and injunctions.
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Greg Bush Solicitor and Head of Department |
Greg has 23 years experience as a lawyer in South Africa and the UK. He specialises in commercial law, particularly property and corporate advice. His commercial property experience includes property acquisition and land disposal; investment purchases (retail, office, leisure and industrial) together with commercial leasing. He advises on property portfolio management for commercial property investors. Greg also has commercial experience and advises on all types of corporate matters including the acquisition and sale of companies and all types of commercial agreements. Greg also deals with the property work for housing associations and local authorities and the firm’s expertise in this area is recognised in the Chambers Guide to Clients.
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James Bedwell Conveyancing Manager |
Jim is a conveyancer with over 30 years experience in residential conveyancing and property transactions. He acts for individuals as well as large corporations and property investors as well as a large London borough. Apart from a brief stint with another firm, Jim has been with Marsons since 1990.
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Jane Norris Paralegal |
Jane worked at Marsons for many years as a litigation executive in Jennifer White’s commercial litigation department. After a short break to have her children, she returned on a part time basis and specialises in the recovery of costs working mostly in the personal injury department.
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Jennifer White Partner |
Jennifer qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and is head of our Commercial Services departments. Jennifer has broad experience in virtually every type of commercial activity but with particular emphasis on litigation including all manner of company and commercial disputes; product liability; intellectual property protection and “passing off” actions; professional negligence actions against solicitors and other professionals (she is regularly recommended by the Law Society in this field); shareholder claims and directors disputes; warranty arguments arising out of the sale of companies; insolvency and debt recovery actions; and all types of construction disputes (including adjudications). Jennifer also advises our corporate clients on employment law and all types of commercial agreements and transactions.
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Mary Martil Partner |
Mary Martil is a Partner and the Head of the Social Housing Department at Marsons. She has specialised in housing law since 1993 and has played the lead role in our specialist team since 2004. Marsons is well-recognised for its achievements and commitment to providing a high-quality, user-friendly housing management litigation service to the social housing sector. Our clients benefit from Mary’s broad experience, gained in the public and not-for-profit sectors, as well as in private practice, and from her ability to find pragmatic solutions to the problems facing her clients. She deals with all types of landlord and tenant cases, and advises on social housing policy and procedure. Mary is a course presenter and trainer (most notably for CLT and the Chartered Institute of Housing). She is also a founding committee member and vice-chair of the Social Housing Law Association.
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Melanie Lobina Paralegal |
Mel worked for Marsons for several years in the 1990’s and returned to the residential conveyancing department in 2007. She assists Jim Bedwell and Caroline Ward in all aspects of the conveyancing transaction and in particular at the post exchange stage.
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Steven Adabadze Solicitor |
Steven qualified as a solicitor in April 2004 after electing to switch from a career in housing to a career in law. Prior to this, Steven worked as a Housing Officer, Estate Manager and a Deputy Area Manager in the housing field for both local authorities and RSLs. Since joining Marsons in May 2004 he has focused on assisting our clients with anti social behaviour and disrepair problems.
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Tamsin Day Partner |
Tamsin qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Tamsin is on the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel and a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. She is also on the Headway panel because of her experience of claims involving people who have suffered an acquired brain injury.
Tamsin represents clients who have been injured at work or in road accidents (either as a pedestrian, motorcyclist, driver or passenger). The work accident claims vary in nature and complexity and include accidents involving an isolated incident to injuries caused by the repetitive nature of the work.
Her cases range in value and complexity as each case is different. Some clients who have been injured at an early stage in their life have been awarded significant sums in compensation because they have not been able to return to work or their earning capacity has been seriously impaired by their injuries and disability.
Tamsin also acts for the families of people who have unfortunately lost their lives as a result of fatal accidents.
Tamsin has an interest in horse riding and has handled numerous cases arising out of accidents involving horse riders, either because of the poor supervision of riding lessons or because other horse owners have failed properly to supervise their horses.
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Trainee Solicitor |
Since successfully completing his Legal Practice Course in 2006, Thomas has specialised in personal injury claims. He joined Marsons in 2007 and now has a training contract so is on his way to qualifying as a solicitor. He has particular experience in road traffic accident claims but also undertakes a variety of other injury claims including accidents at work, defective products, trips and slips.
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Timothy Pyant Paralegal |
Tim has worked in the legal field since 2003 and has specialised in personal injury since 2004. His experience includes public liability claims, road traffic accidents, product liability, accidents at work, repetitive strain and other industrial diseases. He is currently completing his studying under ILEX to become a Legal Executive while working full time.
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See our latest social housing briefing note: Resolving housing issues 2010 |
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