Our Story
Quest Legal Advocates was established in order to meet market demand for a specialist road traffic accident and personal injury advocacy agency. Since 2012 Quest have enjoyed rapid and substantial growth now attending a wide range of hearings across a number of legal disciplines.
Directors Fiona Loxton and Rebecca McNamara bring together their different legal and business experience to lead an effective and friendly team who work hard to provide professional and lay clients with the high-quality service they expect.
Quest Legal Advocates are proud to have developed and maintained long-standing relationships with many prominent firms of solicitors. We believe this is due to our personable service, efficient administration, high-quality advocacy and excellent client care.
Quest undertake thousands of hearings every year in all major court and tribunal centres across England and Wales. Quest also offer a high-quality drafting service.
The Management Team
Fiona Loxton
Director
Rebecca McNamara
Director
Molly Ellis
Operations Manager
Technical Team
Kelly Ann Coleman
Advocate Development Manager (Solicitor)
Georgia O'Rourke
Advocacy Development Assistant (Consumer Rights)
Ruth Topp
Advocacy Development Assistant and Advocate (Solicitor)
Operations Team
Alex Barcz
Senior Operations Assistant
Sam Newell
Senior Operations Assistant
Ashleigh Campbell
Office Manager
Maddie Thwaites
Operations Assistant (Apprentice)
Jay Maudsley
Accounts Co-Ordinator
The Advocacy Team
Quest Legal Advocates offers advocacy work to a large, nationwide panel of highly trained advocates. Our advocates come from a diverse range of legal backgrounds, from BPTC and LPC graduates to experienced solicitors with extensive file handling and advocacy experience.
Our advocates are engaged on a self-employed basis and provide representation at a wide variety of County Court and Tribunal hearings as solicitors’ agents, either as an authorised person or as an exempt person (as defined by the Legal Services Act 2007). Our advocates ensure that Quest’s ethos of preparation and professionalism is delivered at each and every hearing we attend.
The training programme, which all advocates must complete, is bespoke to Quest Legal Advocates and the work they will undertake. It comprises a multiple-stage process combining paper-based study and extensive practical training.
Aspiring advocates must first master the specialist training materials provided to them before progressing to focused one-to-one training prior to undertaking their first case. They are trained and assessed in case preparation, client communication, verbal and written advocacy and relevant law and procedure.
Advocates regularly receive praise from our professional clients, for their performance in court, the results they achieve and excellent client care.
On-going assessment and regular audits of performance are conducted to ensure that advocates maintain the high standard of advocacy which our clients expect.