Practice Areas
Anna specialises in high value personal injury claims. Chambers & Partners 2024 say “Anna is superb, a great advocate with a no-nonsense approach.”
Anna acts in claims involving serious personal injury, with particular emphasis on claims with complex medical causation issues. Her practice focuses on:
• all forms of pain syndromes, including chronic pain syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and somatoform disorders;
fatalities;
• serious spinal damage;
• brain injury cases, including those characterised as subtle in nature and FND claims;
• complex orthopaedic and amputation cases;
• psychiatric conditions
Anna deals with liability disputes in all forms of RTA, EL and PL claims. She is currently instructed in a number of high value RTA claims with multiple accident reconstruction experts.
Her caseload is heavily weighted towards acting for Insurers, but she is also regularly instructed on behalf of Claimants. Anna frequently appears unled against KCs.
Anna lives in the West Country but her practice is nationwide.
See https://12kbw.co.uk/barristers/anna-symington/ for further details.
Career
Call: 2002
Anna practices in main stream personal injury work, with a particular focus on defending fraudulent claims and claims where fundamental dishonesty is suspected. She acts on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants in high value personal injury claims and has particular expertise in CRPS and ‘pain’ cases.
