Chris Harper

Joint Managing Partner and Head of Department

Chris is Joint Managing Partner with Jane Laidler. He has wide experience of the handling of civil disputes (private and commercial) arising in a variety of fields including contract, intellectual property, professional negligence, insolvency, estates and tax, and of administrative law claims (having been involved in Judicial Review proceedings both for and against regulators) and human rights issues.

His current practice is in both litigation and advisory work, including data protection and freedom of information. He is a specialist in gambling law.

Chris gained his degree at University College London and was articled at Gregory, Rowcliffe & Co. He became a partner in 1978 and has led the litigation team since 1984.

e: c.harper@grm.co.uk

Lesley Pendlebury Cox

Partner

Lesley is a Litigation partner and head of our specialist Family Law team. She is a member of the Law Society's Specialist Family Panel and a Family Specialist accredited by Resolution. She acts in many cross border disputes particularly those with a German connection, whilst retaining a substantial domestic client base.

Her litigation experience has taken her before the highest appellate courts including the House of Lords. Her international expertise includes jurisdiction disputes, intellectual property litigation and work for German shipping companies, banks and insurance companies and she is a member of the British German Jurists Association.

Before qualifying as a solicitor Lesley engaged in social research, notably at the London School of Economics and the Tavistock Institute. Before becoming a partner at GRM in 1992 she spent several years as a commercial litigator before accepting a partnership with Mawby Barrie & Scott, a niche Anglo-German practice.

e: l.pendleburycox@grm.co.uk

Timothy Moloney

Partner

Tim, a Litigation partner, is head of our personal injury section and member or our Specialist Employment Law team.

He conducts a wide variety of litigation specialising in employment work and personal injury . He has extensive access to specialist witnesses and contacts to advise and give expert evidence at an early stage. He also regularly gives seminars on employment law.

He gained his degree from the University of Manchester in 1976. 1983 he became a partner with Gasters which, in 1991, merged with Simmonds Church Smiles. On their subsequent merger in 1999, he became a partner in Gregory Rowcliffe Milners.

e: t.moloney@grm.co.uk

Anna Clifton

Assistant Solicitor

Anna Clifton joined GRM in 2003 as a trainee solicitor and following qualification in 2005 became an Assistant Solicitor in the firm's Litigation Department. Her practice area encompasses disputes in a wide variety of areas, ranging from Family and Matrimonial matters to Commercial Contract and Intellectual Property suits.

She gained a BA in Classics from Wadham College Oxford in 2001, and received an MA (Oxon) in the same discipline. She completed her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law. Anna is a member of several charitable fundraising committees supporting medical research and children's welfare.

e: a.clifton@grm.co.uk

Elizabeth Philpott

Legal Executive

Elizabeth is a Legal Executive within the Litigation team specialising in personal injury claims. She  also deals with contract disputes as well as landlord and tenant claims and has extensive experience of various court procedures including House of Lords Appeals, Judicial Reviews, High Court and County Court proceedings and is a member of -the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. She joined Simmonds Church Smiles in 1988 and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives  the following year.

Liz teaches skiing to able bodied as well as disabled skiers. She has also cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats and from London to Paris, as well as walked from coast to coast in England (the narrow bit) and run several marathons and half marathons. Her ambition at present is to windsurf from Southampton to the Isle of Wight.

e: e.philpott@grm.co.uk

Zohra Furtado

Trainee Solicitor

Zohra is a trainee solicitor at Gregory Rowcliffe Milners. She studied at Benenden School and undertook her law degree at SOAS (University of London). Zohra then completed the Legal Practice Course at The College of Law before moving on to gain paralegal experience within the City.

She enjoys art, dance and a variety of sporting activities.

e: z.furtado@grm.co.uk