Victoria Morrison Hughes– Costs Lawyer

Victoria is a qualified costs lawyer with a degree in accountancy and finance.  Coupled with her extensive experience working as a lawyer in high street practice, Victoria has a unique insight into both the operational and technical demands of a legal business.

She qualified in 1997 as an Associate of the Association of Law Costs Draftsmen and quickly qualified as a Fellow.  Victoria gained costs lawyer status in the first round of accreditation in 2007.

During the initial part of her career, she specialised in clinical negligence, catastrophic injury and commercial litigation matters.  She was then headhunted to work as Head of Costs at a reputable city centre firm which specialised in the personal injury market both in Fast Track PI together with complex clinical negligence and catastrophic injury cases particularly against the MOD.

Victoria has enjoyed success in her own practice, which she led for 11 years before joining forces with Burcher Jennings in 2016.

Victoria has recently joined Recovery First as a Consultant to assist in providing technical support and guidance on many varied aspects of the legal costs recovery process.

 Victoria can be contacted by telephone on 07815 111959 or via email at victoria@recoveryfirst.co.uk