Expertise

Gemma has assisted on a wide range of complex and high value aviation injury disputes relating to injuries on commercial airlines and private aircraft, as well as paragliding and skydiving injuries. Much of her experience includes cases with an international element.

Gemma has experience drafting schedule of loss and witness statements, instructing medico-legal experts, drafting legal correspondence, issuing claims, and conducting legal research. She has attended mediations, court hearings and client meetings with instructed solicitors and counsel.

As a criminal paralegal, Gemma obtained experience interviewing vulnerable clients and liaising with the multidisciplinary teams working around them. She continues to volunteer for the Salvation Army interviewing potential victims of human trafficking for referral into the National Referral Mechanism.

Experience

• Assisting in high value personal injury proceedings arising from an accident on a private aircraft.
• Assisting in a fatal claim on behalf of a British family whose husband/father was killed on a commercial airline flight while working abroad.
• Assisting a foreign national in complex injury proceedings following a skydiving accident which took place in the UK.
• Helping a modern slavery and human trafficking victim appeal their previous criminal conviction in the Court of Appeal on the basis of their trafficking status at the time of the criminal offence.

Career

Gemma studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She then completed her GDL at BPP University in London, followed by the LPC for which she was awarded a Distinction.

Prior to joining Stewarts, Gemma was a paralegal at a criminal law firm in London.

Publications and Media

• Assisted Peter Neenan in researching and writing an article for the Evening Standard on Why climate change is leading to more aviation disasters – and how the industry must respond
• Decarbonising the aviation industry part one: progression, strategies and challenges
• Decarbonising the aviation industry part two: wider impacts on the aviation sector

Personal

Gemma enjoys playing netball and tennis, and practices yoga. She attends a book club, likes to cook for family and friends, and enjoys travelling abroad.