personal injury
Our personal injury barristers are some of the very best in the field. They’ve appeared in many of the biggest and most complex cases and recovered hundreds of millions of pounds for injury victims. In 2010 we estimate that our barristers were involved in cases recovering in excess of £135 million for injury victims by way of trial or settlements. In 2011 Joel Donovan and Patricia Hitchcock were appointed silk.
We have particular expertise in catastrophic brain injury and spinal injury claims including recently Pankhurst v White, a High Court tetraplegia case involving an award of more than £6m; Houghton, a £4m claim for a severely brain damaged infant following an RTA; D V F, a 3.9 million paraplegia case, Mohamed, the then highest ever reported RTA settlement at £11.5m and B v M a £5m partial tetraplegia case.
Recent Court of Appeal cases include Connor v Surrey County Council, a personal injury stress claim; Stanton v Collinson (no contributory negligence for failure to wear a seat belt); Noble v Owens (where the defendants sought to reopen a £3m claim on the grounds of fraud), Henry v Thames Valley Police (successful claimants appeal against finding that a police officer had not been negligent when he ran over a motorcyclist who had failed to stop) and the Godstone Farm e-coli group action.
We’ve been instructed in many of the landmark PI cases in recent years including the leading House of Lords stress claim Barber v Somerset County Council; Majrowksi v Guys and St Thomas’s, the leading House of Lords case on harassment; Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust, one of the leading Court of Appeal level stress claims; A v Hoare, the House of Lords lotto rapist case – extending limitation for rape victims; and Gravil v Redruth Rugby Football Club (vicarious liability for pitch violence by employed players).
The team is led by Simon Taylor QC and has a large number of highly respected practitioners including PI Junior of the year (in 2008 and 2010), William Latimer-Sayer, Andrew Buchan and Simon Dyer.
Members have experience in a wide range of personal injury law and related areas including:
- Traumatic brain injury
- Fatal accidents
- Occupational injury
- Industrial disease
- Workplace bullying
- Road traffic accidents
- Sports injuries
- Inquests
- Limitation
- MIB claims
- Military accidents
- Abuse/assault claims
- Acoustic shock
- Animals Act claims
- Causation
- Product liability
- Claims against local authorities
- Criminal injuries compensation
- barristers
- Sheryn Omeri
- Anna Beale
- Nathaniel Caiden
- Andrew Buchan
- Rachel Chambers
- Sally Cowen
- Olivia-Faith Dobbie
- Will Dobson
- Joel Donovan QC
- Daniel Dyal
- Simon Dyer
- Sarah Fraser Butlin
- Yvette Genn
- Caspar Glyn
- Patricia Hitchcock QC
- Linda Jacobs
- William Latimer-Sayer
- Martyn McLeish
- Chris Milsom
- Caroline Musgrave
- Martin Seaward
- Catriona Stirling
- Lisa Sullivan
- Simon Taylor QC
- Hannah Godfrey
related news
William Latimer-Sayer is once again named Chambers & Partners Personal Injury Junior of the Year
Cloisters has given two personal injury and clinical negligence seminars:
Problem issues and problem clients: How to win the case when the client isn’t straightforward
Adding Value: Litigating and settling heavy cases
Click here for full details.
related publications
- Andrew Buchan and William Latimer-Sayer are co-authors of Personal Injury Schedules (2010)
- Patricia Hitchcock and Lisa Sullivan co-write a chapter on Limitation in Butterworth's Personal Injuries Service