Helen Snowball

Helen is a member of the firm’s global Executive Group and is Managing Partner of Kennedys’ Sheffield office. As a member of the Executive Group, Helen is responsible for the global management and strategic direction of Kennedys.

An industry renowned defendant personal injury lawyer specialising in high value and complex risk litigation involving allegations of historic child sexual abuse and neglect,
she qualified in England and Wales in 1999 and has been with Kennedys since 2010.

Helen leads Kennedys’ Specialist Liability team, a team of expert lawyers representing insurers, charities, public sector organisations and individuals in claims involving historic sexual abuse, equalities and human rights, data breach and discrimination claims. Her expertise in this area includes designing a redress scheme to provide compensation to hundreds of survivors of historic sexual abuse - the first of its kind in the UK, numerous high-profile Court of Appeal and High Court cases and claims involving international organisations. She works closely with clients to provide crisis management support in respect of high profile cases with press and global media interest.

She also provides board level support to a major UK charity in relation to safeguarding, and has also been involved in the steering group set up by Master McCloud to consider a bespoke pre-action protocol for historic child abuse claims. She has received training from the National Association of People Abused in Childhood to understand the presentation and emotional triggers for abuse survivors.

As a longstanding member of ALARM, the forum for local authority risk and insurance managers, she regularly provides strategic advice and seminars for their board and members. Additionally, she has recently contributed to the “Children’s Services, Alarm Guide to Managing Risk”.

She is also an engaged member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL).

Qualifications

• Qualified in England and Wales in 1999