Maddie Goel

Maddie is a first-year trainee in the Human Rights department, working with Emma Jones.

She assists Emma in bringing claims under the Hill End Compensation scheme (Hill End Adolescent Unit former patients settle abuse claims) on behalf of clients who were unlawfully sedated and abused at Hill End Adolescent Unit between 1969 and 1995. 

She also works on a variety of Human Rights Act and negligence claims involving the treatment and care provided to vulnerable children and adults in health and social care settings.

Further experience

Maddie first joined Leigh Day as a paralegal in the International Group Litigation department, working on child abuse cases in Thailand as well as emissions claims. Before securing her training contract, Maddie worked as an advocate at Refuge where she supported survivors of domestic abuse to gain housing, financial independence, and legal advice. She provided advocacy for her service users when they engaged with the police and social services.

Education

Maddie studied History at Durham University. She wrote her dissertation on the architecture of international law in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. She then obtained distinctions in her GDL and LPC at the University of Law. Maddie has a LLM in immigration and wrote her dissertation on the ‘credibility clause’ of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004.