SILK PROFILE

Caroline Harrison KC

UK Bar 2026

2 Temple Gardens

Ranked in 1 practice area

Clinical Negligence

London (Bar)

17 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Clinical & lawyer’s negligence. Catastrophic injury. Medical Research & Product Liability. Insurance. Specialist in complex clinical & legal issues.

Career

Clinical negligence: Williams (Privy Council. Material contribution causation); Woods (Antenatal CTG interpretation); Colley (Fundamental Dishonesty in multi-£m claim. Discontinued. Successful contempt application for Litigation Friend); ISD (Congenital syphilis causing catastrophic brain damage); MZN (secondary victim liability to natural mother in context of surrogate birth); Maytum (Causation. Obverse of Gregg v Scott). Negotiated settlements in numerous £20m-£40m cerebral palsy claims, including atypical clauses in Periodical Payment Orders and variable PPOs.

Lawyers negligence: Whitehead (CofA. Underlying wrongful birth claim. Novel issues: duty of care to father; when events after notional trial can be taken into account).

Personal Injury: Mohammed (£7.5m multiple-injury RTA & fundamental dishonesty); Mather (material contribution causation in multiple sclerosis); Merrett (£14m brain damage. Pre-existing tetraplegia. ‘Injury-on-injury damages’; non-delegable duty; vicarious liability for agency nurses); Lyons (Psychiatric injury. Material contribution causation cf Jobling).

Insurance: Willsher (£2m PHI claim. Discontinued after cross-X of claimant); Miley (CofA. Meaning of dishonesty).

Medical Research and Product liability: Trans-vaginal and abdominal mesh claims; Experimental laser therapy; Alleged inappropriate recruitment into Pre-Term Birth research.

Member of: Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (to 2009); Human Genetics Commission (to 2012); National Research Ethics Advisory Panel (to 2012). Expert witness to House of Lords Science & Technology Committee (cloning, employment and insurance in genetics).

Professional Memberships

PNBA (former Chair of executive committee)

Publications

Medical Ethics and Genetics, in Powers and Harris, Clinical Negligence (2008)

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Clinical Negligence - London (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Caroline Harrison KC is a high-ranking silk specialising in clinical negligence, with a particular focus on cases arising from adult brain damage, as well as neonatal and spinal injuries. She is also an expert in niche areas of medical law such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microbiological causation in septic arthritis. Her practice also incorporates personal injury and health and safety cases.

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Strengths

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Caroline is absolutely fantastic to work with. She is exceptionally knowledgeable, with an ability to boil down the most complex and extensive of instructions to the key elements.
Clinical NegligenceUK Bar
She is an absolute delight to work with. She is knowledgeable, curious and invested in all aspects of a case. She is beyond helpful.
Clinical NegligenceUK Bar
Caroline is excellent with clients, particularly when distilling down complex matters into advice that is easy to understand.
Clinical NegligenceUK Bar
Caroline is fantastic. She handles witnesses with grace and is technically savvy.
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