Christopher Edwards

Christopher’s main areas of practice are personal injury (including travel law and industrial disease), clinical negligence, employment, and costs. He also represents interested parties at inquests. A significant part of his practice is court work: he is frequently instructed in high value and lengthy trials, as well as interlocutory matters/case management hearings, and detailed assessments. He appears in the High Court, County Court, Employment Tribunal, EAT, and SCCO. When not in court he has a busy paperwork and advisory practice, and frequently represents his clients in settlement meetings/mediations. He has a mixed practice acting for individuals, insurers, public and private sector employers, and unions. He is regularly instructed in cases with an employment/personal injury cross-over, for example involving high earning individuals bringing claims for psychiatric injury against an employer. He has particular expertise in the healthcare sector and in claims involving aviation, seafaring, and the military.

Called 2006; Gray’s Inn, practising in personal injury, clinical negligence, employment, and costs throughout that time. Prior to being called to the Bar, Christopher trained as an archaeologist, specialising in Aztec and Maya civilisations.

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; Employment Law Association; Employment Law Bar Association; Industrial Law Society; Personal Injury Bar Association. Christopher sat on the Employment Law Association management committee until 2016.