Christopher Kennedy KC

Practice Areas

Chris' instructions come from insurers and he usually represents Defendants in cases where the Claimant has suffered very severe injury or where there is a point of more general importance to be decided. However, he enjoys representing Claimants and is happy to receive instructions to do so.

Chris has also represented the Defendant insurer in two cases where their insured driver has deliberately used a vehicle to cause harm to several members of the general public.

In addition to the 'standard' matters which are to be expected in cases of severe injury, Chris' current/recent caseload has meant that he is particularly familiar with the issues raised by:

• negotiating the way forward in cases where damages will not be assessed for some time. He is used to dealing with these cases both where the parties are working towards a trial and those where they are not;

• the availability of public funding; having to assess the merits and demerits of community and residential models for Claimants in low-awareness states or with significant behavioural challenges;

• having to disentangle the effects of intercurrent medical conditions from the consequences of an accident;

• emerging technology in the fields of prosthetics and spinal injury; subtle brain injury;

• individuals with pain; higher earning Claimants; accidents abroad and foreign Claimants injured in this country;

• deploying liability expert evidence in 'non-standard' cases.

Chris also specialises in Health and Safety and has advised and represented the same Defendants in both the criminal and civil jurisdictions.