Madeleine Davies

Trainee Solicitor

Experience

I am a trainee solicitor in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation team at Bates Wells.

Areas of Expertise

Understanding and unlocking restricted legacies

Legacies to charities usually fall into one of the categories below: Legacies falling into the second category are ‘restricted legacies’. What does this mean for your charity? Can those restrictions be lifted? And how should legacies in category 3 be treated? What is a restricted legacy? A restricted legacy is subject to binding legal restrictions …

The For Women Scotland judgment: what do charities need to know?

Last year, the Supreme Court was asked, ‘What is a woman?’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. It gave a clear judgment last April in the landmark For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] case which ruled that a “woman” means a biological female. This does not include transgender women, even …

Data breach claims boosted

The Court of Appeal judgment in Farley and Others v Paymaster (1836) Limited (trading as Equiniti) [2025] has given life to low level data breach claims – bad news for those organisations careless or unfortunate enough to suffer a data breach (and their insurers, and the county courts), good news for claimants (and lawyers). The …

The concussion gap: why sporting organisations need to pay more attention to brain injuries in women’s sport

While much of the focus has been on male athletes, increasing evidence from scientific studies1 suggests that biologically female athletes may be at a higher risk of sustaining concussions and other sport related traumatic brain injuries and suffering more severe long-term consequences than their biologically male counterparts. Litigation related to sports-related brain injuries is growing, …

The downstream impact of Finch v Surrey County Council, one year on

Last week marked one year since the landmark decision in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council, a challenge to Surrey’s decision to allow the expansion of an onshore oil well site. In its June 2024 judgment, the Supreme Court held that, in its decision, the Council should have weighed “downstream” greenhouse gas emissions. These would …

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