Expertise

Megan has extensive experience of High Court litigation acting for claimants with serious, life-changing injuries. She primarily acts for clients who have sustained a brain injury, spinal cord injury and/or amputation. Megan has successfully recovered over £80 million damages for clients.

Megan has concluded a number of complex cases at trial, litigating on issues including security of damages for those opting for periodical payments and provisional damages for those who have sustained a spinal cord injury.

Career

Megan qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and joined Stewarts in 2007, after spending two years working at Irwin Mitchell. Megan was made a Legal Director in 2023.

Experience

• £13.25 million settlement for a child who sustained a spinal cord injury when he was two years old.
• £5.5 million settlement for an 18 year old rendered a paraplegic as a result of a road traffic accident.
• £3.5 million settlement for a young man who sustained a severe brain injury and lacked capacity. The case settled following a trial of independent living.
• £1.93 million settlement for a young man who sustained incomplete paraplegia as a result of an accident at work.
• £1.4 million settlement for a 67 year who sustained incomplete paraplegia following a fall in a theatre.
• £1.38 million settlement for a young man who sustained a complex orthopaedic injury. The settlement factored in a long-term risk of amputation.

Accreditations and Memberships

Megan is an APIL senior litigator and Accredited Spinal Cord Injury Specialist.

Personal

Megan enjoys skiing, swimming and pilates, as well as spending time with her family.