Charles Bagot KC

Practice Areas

Charles has been recommended in the legal directories as a leading practitioner. He won Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year at the 2024 Chambers UK Bar Awards. He also won Personal Injury Silk of the Year at the 2023 Legal 500 Bar Awards (and was nominated for the same award at the 2023 Chambers UK Bar Awards). He took silk in 2018 and is a specialist barrister in the fields of personal injury, clinical negligence, civil procedure and related insurance issues. He sits part-time as a Deputy High Court Judge, a Recorder (Crime & Civil) and as a Deputy King's Bench Master. He was successful in the election to be Chair of the Personal Injuries Bar Association, for a two year term from April 2022. He is a governing Bencher of the Inner Temple. He is on the Editorial Boards of Kemp & Kemp: the Quantum of Damages and also the Personal Injuries and Quantum Reports.

Charles’ practice is in acting for Claimants and Defendants in complex and high value injury and clinical negligence claims and has a specialism in secondary victim litigation and fatal accident claims.

He has a practice in procedural law, having led on appeals in the Court of Appeal and Privy Council arising out of procedural points in his specialist fields and civil litigation generally, both domestic claims and appeals from overseas jurisdictions.

He has advised major insurers in high value cases being litigated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and Gibraltar respectively.