Eve Piffaretti

Eve is Head of Office in Wales and a Partner in our Commercial & Charities team. She is a specialist Public, Regulatory & Governance lawyer with a broad practice.

Main areas of practice

Eve acts for public, private and third sector organisations across the UK advising on public law and regulatory issues. Eve is experienced in advising on existing and emerging Welsh legislation and policy.

She specialises in statutory interpretation, freedom of information, equality & human rights, safeguarding adults & children, mental health and mental capacity law.

Eve advises and trains the NHS in Wales & England, Local Authority Adult and Children’s Social Services Departments, other health, social care, education organisations, regulators, Commissioners and the private and third sector on a variety of issues relevant to their services, including governance and compliance, consent to treatment, confidentiality and information sharing, consultation, diversity, inclusion and equality, human rights, social care and health care law, the law relating to adults at risk and children, judicial review, community care and information law.

Eve sits as a Legal Adviser to Investigation, Fitness to Practise and Suitability Committees of the Education Workforce Council (EWC). She also presents cases in relation to Social Workers and Social Care Workers on behalf of Social Care Wales and sits as a Legal Advisor to the Professional Conduct Panels of the Teaching Regulation Agency.

Eve sits as a Legal Adviser to Statutory Approval Committees of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and advises the Human Tissue Authority.

Clients

Eve works with organisations across the public, voluntary and private sectors. These range from national regulators to charitable providers of health services and health tech companies. She has acted as an adviser to the NHS throughout her career.

Interests

Eve is the co-author of Sweet and Maxwell’s Mental Capacity Act Manual and edits the Encyclopedia of Social Service and Child Care law ( Mental Capacity section).

Eve is a member of Law Council for Wales and The Law Society’s National Board for Wales. She is also a member of the LexisNexis Panel of Experts for Wales (Public Law), the Society of Authors and the Wales Observatory on the Rights of the Child.

She holds an ISEB Certificate in Freedom of Information law and is a Guest Lecturer on the Nursing (Adult) and Nursing ( Mental Health) BSc degree course at Aberystwyth University delivering Healthcare law content to Year 2 students.

Eve is Welsh, and proud of her Swiss heritage.

Expertise

• Charities
• Healthcare
• Defending Professionals
• Data Protection
• Judicial Review
• Advising Regulators

Career

Eve trained with the firm, qualifying in 1993 after graduating from Cardiff University and completing her Law Society Finals at the College of Law in Guildford. She also holds an Information Systems Examination Board Certificate in Freedom of Information.

She was named in the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Legal 500 Hall of Fame.