Darryl Allen KC

Practice Areas

King's Counsel specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation.

Personal Injury - Acts on behalf of claimants and defendants in catastrophic injury and high value fatal accident claims. Substantial experience of analysing difficult issues relating to local authority care and accommodation, large care claims and high value complex loss of earnings claims.

Clinical Negligence - Represents patients and their families in clinical negligence claims. Caseload covers a wide spectrum of medical incidents, including delayed diagnosis of cancer, delayed diagnosis of infant brain tumour, surgical errors, birth trauma, failures in spinal anaesthetic technique leading to spinal cord injury, management of congenital heart conditions including infants, community and hospital management of diabetes and diabetic complications, failures in psychiatric care (community and inpatient) leading to suicide/attempted suicide.

Consistently recommended as a leading barrister in personal injury and clinical negligence work (Chambers and Partners/Legal 500).

Career

Called (1995). King's Counsel (2014). Deputy High Court Judge (2017). Recorder (2010). Tribunal Judge (2007) Legal Adviser to the First Tier Tribunal (2014) (Criminal Injuries Compensation).

Professional Memberships

PIBA (Chairman 2018)

Personal

Born 1972. Education: Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and Leeds University (LLB (Hons)). Married with two daughters and two dogs. Completed Marathons London/New York and Ironman Lanzarote/Italy.