Steven Ratcliffe

Barrister

Steven is an experienced and effective advocate and has appeared before countless Courts, Tribunals and Inquiries. His work experience ranges from the Civil Service (Treasury Solicitors Department- TSol- and the Crown Prosecution Service) and the Magistrates’ Courts Service to a local firm of High Street solicitors, and from local government to a multinational HR services provider. In 2011, Steven became an Accredited Mediator and is enthusiastic about helping parties in a dispute find a way to resolve their issues. He fully appreciates that sometimes Court or Employment Tribunal litigation is the only option, but if there is a better way he wants to help our clients to find it. Steven also has substantial experience in designing and delivering training sessions on a wide range of legal, regulatory and management issues to a varied selection of audiences. At Lincs Law Ltd, Steven deals primarily with risk & compliance matters (including recently drawing up risk assessments around Covid-19). Alongside being our COLP (Compliance Officer for Legal Practice), he is also the firm’s Complaints Officer, Data Protection Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer. In his spare time Steven plays the drums and listens to all kinds of music, particularly classical music and Prog Rock. When faced with a “willing” victim, he will spend many a happy hour discussing the respective merits of Yes, Genesis, ELP and King Crimson. He loves anything to do with cars and if he ever disappears, we know we’ll be able to find him drooling over the latest Jaguar.