Sarah Gardner

Based at Thompsons Solicitors in Stoke, Sarah is a highly qualified personal injury solicitor with a successful record in dealing with domestic personal injury and foreign jurisdiction cases. 

Sarah currently manages a team of experienced fast track lawyers who operate out of the Stoke and Dagenham offices. Her team handles all fast track personal injury accident claims which are no longer in or not suitable for the personal injury portal. Her team covers the London, South East and Eastern region. Sarah has a wealth of management and supervision experience.  

Sarah also has a history of handling a personal caseload of high-value, complex claims whilst supervising the work of other lawyers at Thompsons.  

Sarah has dealt with a wide range of compensation claims, often involving more than one defendant. Sarah enjoys a considerable reputation dealing with all types of personal injury claims. Sarah has been with the firm since 2008 and has worked in various Thompson’s offices.  

Sarah has built up an array of useful contacts including agents, lawyers and specialist barristers. Sarah also has access to a wide range of medical specialists who help to elicit the highest possible compensation. 

Attention to detail is one of Sarah’s keys attributes, along with an ability to use plain language to explain complex legal points in the regular updates she ensures are given.  

Thompsons enjoys a high reputation in the legal profession for the training it gives its staff, an attribute particularly valued by Sarah. She says clients will always be given the most up-to-date advice by a highly trained lawyer with specialist knowledge and she ensures that her team delivers this. Sarah also points out that Thompsons never work for those who might be responsible for injury or their insurance companies. She enjoys only working for injured people and those that need help the most.

Sarah’s team focuses on ensuring suitable cases are litigated and taken through the Court process at the earliest opportunity.   

Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and joined Thompsons at the same time. She is keen to be part of a firm fighting against social and legal injustice matters. She works tirelessly to ensure those people that her team represents receive the specialist advice needed to pursue a claim through to a successful conclusion. 

Away from work Sarah has a passion for music and attending gigs and festivals. Sarah enjoys running, pilates and country walks. She is also a football fan with a season ticket at Wolverhampton Wanderers and is kept busy outside work by her two daughters.  

Sarah’s case experience

• One of her high-profile cases involved a group action arising out of the terrorist attack in 2015 in Tunisia. 
• Secured a £60,000 settlement from a film production company for a worker who had an accident in Hungary on the set of the Zombie disaster movie, World War Z. The stage hand suffered a complicated injury to his hip when he fell through a hole. 
• Recovered £7,5000 for a client who slipped on a wet floor as she entered a bar on holiday in Mexico, fracturing her foot. Management only placed a warning sign about the slippery floor after the accident.  
• Secured compensation for a 68-year-old storage fitter working on a site in the Netherlands, who was forced to stop working ahead of his retirement after slipping in a pool of water. The man was unable to see the hazard because of poor lighting and fell sustaining serious damage to his left shoulder.  

Professional memberships

Sarah is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). 

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