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about us

We strive to ensure that each member of the team at Osborn Abas Hunt brings unique qualities to the table, to provide the widest possible spectrum of services to our clients. We have lawyers and support staff from settings ranging from civil litigation to education coming together with the common goal of providing the highest quality advice and training to our clients, whilst having the extensive legal expertise to provide robust and thorough representation when our clients face prosecution or enforcement.

“If I needed to instruct a solicitor in this field, Madeleine would be my first choice”

- King's Counsel

Madeleine Abas

SENIOR PARTNER

The team at Osborn Abas Hunt is led by Madeleine Abas. 

Madeleine is one of the UK’s leading health and safety lawyers. She was a founding member of the National Health and Safety Lawyers Association and held the position of Chair for 7 years. Madeleine is a Legal 500 Hall of Famer and a 10-year entrant in Who’s Who, in recognition of her profile and achievements in health and safety law.

Madeleine is widely recognised as a double threat; a leading health and safety lawyer using her experience to provide thorough and practical training. Her client base includes some of the world’s largest companies, significant public bodies and other enterprises commissioning or undertaking infrastructure projects.

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SENIOR TEAM

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Ryan Gledhill

Senior Associate

Ryan began his legal career in a civil litigation setting, acting for both individuals and companies on both sides of personal injury and loss related claims, which highlighted the ramifications of not getting things right from a health and safety perspective. In 2021, Ryan then made the move into Regulatory and Health and Safety criminal enforcement.

Working closely with Madeleine over a number of years, Ryan has a developed a wealth of cross-industry experience, in areas such as construction, chemical production, highway maintenance, hospitality, healthcare, local government, safeguarding and manufacturing. Ryan has the trust of a range of companies, from the very large to the modest, in proactively advising on compliance issues, providing robust defence when criminal prosecutions arise, appealing enforcement action and providing advocacy for public inquiries and inquests.

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HANNAH HOOLEY

Practice Manager

Hannah is the cog that keeps the firm organised and ticking. She is a highly qualified sales professional with over 10 years experience working with some of the largest companies throughout the UK & Europe, as well as working for one of the UK’s leading Law Firms. Hannah is excited for the future, to continue delivering exceptional customer service for our clients.

“I can recommend Madeleine and her team without reservation for the high quality personal service that they provide in this specialist field.”

- King's Counsel

Diversity & Inclusion

As a firm we are committed to promoting equality and diversity in our professional activities and our workplace. Every 2 years we are required to carry out a diversity survey across the firm. The information collected is reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, who use it to compile a view of the profession as a whole.

Our latest survey was carried out in August 2021 and a summary
of our results is given below:

0
%
of the respondents were qualified solicitors
0
%
identified as female and 33% male
0
%
of the respondents were under 35, and 33% were over 45 years old;
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0%
No employees suffered from a disability
0
%
of the respondents were the primary carer of child under 18.

If you would like to know more about our equality and diversity policies, please feel free to contact us.

Osborn Abas Hunt
The Alderley Rooms
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Henbury
Cheshire
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OAH Law Limited is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (registration number: 485523). For details of the SRA’s Standards and Regulations see here.

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As required under the Solicitors Regulation Authority Indemnity Insurance Rules, OAH Law Limited maintains professional indemnity insurance.
That insurance is with Travelers Insurance Company Limited, 61-63 London Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1NA and covers our professional services worldwide.

Madeline Abas

SENIOR PARTNER

The team at Osborn Abas Hunt is led by Madeleine Abas. 

Madeleine is one of the UK’s leading health and safety lawyers. She was a founding member of the National Health and Safety Lawyers Association and held the position of Chair for 7 years. Madeleine is a Legal 500 Hall of Famer and a 10-year entrant in Who’s Who, in recognition of her profile and achievements in health and safety law.

Madeleine is widely recognized as a double threat; a leading health and safety lawyer using her experience to provide thorough and practical training. Her client base includes some of the world’s largest companies, significant public bodies and other enterprises commissioning or undertaking infrastructure projects.

She has over 27 years of experience in helping clients achieve the highest standards of health and safety and regulatory compliance through a range of innovative assessment tools, workshops and training programmes, and has unrivalled experience in defending clients in complex crown court trials, in applications for judicial review in the High Court and in enforcement notice appeals. Her clients operate in a wide range of industries including construction, property management, utilities, public services, highways, manufacturing and retail, and public sector organizations including the emergency services and local authorities.

Madeleine has worked with numerous Boards of Directors to guide them in enhancing their contribution to health and safety performance, updating them in the latest leadership expectations and developing their knowledge and ability to probe safety-related information and make a meaningful contribution to the health and safety performance of their business.

She is regularly engaged to speak at industry conferences – events over recent years include the HSE Excellence Conference in Frankfurt, Chief Fire Officers’ Association Conference, the IOSH National Safety Symposium, the IOSH Railway Safety Conference, Police National Risk Conference and the Construction News Safety Conference. She has also travelled to the USA and Canada to deliver training for an international engineering services company, and has trained clients’ internal trainers to deliver her programmes to further corners of the globe, such as Australia.

She holds the Lead Accident Investigators Certificate and a number of industry competency cards. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Construction Health and Safety Manual and a regular contributor to various industry publications.