Maddie Goel

Maddie is a second-year trainee in the Employment and Discrimination department assisting Tom Hewitt and James Husbands on a variety of equal pay claims. She currently supports a team representing around 5,000 shop floor workers in their equal pay claims. Maddie also assists with 3 group claims on behalf of Trade Unions and their members.

In her first seat in the Human Rights department, Maddie assisted Emma Jones in bringing claims under the Hill End Compensation scheme (Hill End Adolescent Unit former patients settle abuse claims) on behalf of people who were unlawfully sedated and abused at Hill End Adolescent Unit. She worked 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.

Maddie assisted the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) in their intervention to the Mental Health Bill, which received Royal Assent in December 2025. Her research on the application of s.6 Human Rights Act 1998 definition of a public authority was used by the BIHR to close the Sammut gap in the Mental Health Act 2025.

Further experience

Before securing her training contract, Maddie worked as an advocate at Refuge where she supported survivors of domestic abuse. 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.

Memberships and Education

Maddie is a member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association. She achieved distinctions in her LPC and GDL at the University of Law and studied History at Durham University. Maddie has a LLM in immigration and wrote her dissertation on the functionality of the ‘credibility clause’ of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004.