SILK PROFILE

Giles Mooney KC

UK Bar 2026

Deka Chambers

Ranked in 4 practice areas

Personal Injury: Animal Claims

All Circuits

2 years ranked

Clinical Negligence

London (Bar)

9 years ranked

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

14 years ranked

Travel: International Personal Injury

London (Bar)

4 years ranked

About

Provided by Deka Chambers

Practice Areas

Giles deals with heavyweight litigation in clinical negligence, professional negligence and personal injury. His personal injury and clinical negligence practice encompasses all aspects of catastrophic injury work, acting mainly, but not exclusively, for claimants.

He has extensive experience of birth injury claims, other brain injury claims and spinal injuries. Giles is equally at home dealing with complex liability issues and quantum awards of the highest level. Giles does a wide variety of personal injury. He has particular interests in claims involving animals, having been involved in 4 Court of Appeal cases concerning the Animals Act 1971, and accidents at sea.

Giles has a growing professional negligence workload acting in claims against solicitors, financial advisors and vets amongst others.

Recent work highlights have included:

Wilson v MOJ [2024] EWHC 2389 (KB)

Croydon Tram Inquest 2021

Ford v Seymour-Williams [2021] EWCA Civ 1848

ST v BAI (t/a Brittany Ferries) [2022] EWCA Civ 1037

Chadwick v RH Ovenden [2022] EWHC 1701 (QB)

Parry v Johnson [2022] EWHC 89 (QB)

FLR v Chandran [2023] EWHC 1671 (QB)

Professional Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association

Professional Negligence Bar Association

AvMA.

Publications

General editor to “Guides to RTA Liability” (LexisNexis).

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Personal Injury: Animal Claims - All Circuits

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Giles Mooney KC of Deka Chambers is a respected silk with a broad injury practice. He is especially experienced in claims involving horses, particularly those arising from riding accidents in a sports context. His knowledge of the Animals Act 1971 is notably strong, having acted in a number of leading decisions.

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Clinical Negligence - London (Bar)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Giles Mooney KC dedicates his practice to dealing with clinical negligence and personal injury claims. He represents both claimants and defendants, and has knowledge pertaining to a wide variety of issues, including birth injuries, as well as surgical and diagnosis cases.

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Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Giles Mooney KC regularly acts for both claimants and defendants, and is one of the foremost experts for cases involving injuries caused by animals. He has vast experience in multimillion-pound catastrophic injury claims, which often involve complex liability issues.

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Travel: International Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Giles Mooney KC is instructed on a range of serious and complex international personal injury matters. He represents claimants who have sustained life-changing injuries during aquatic activities. He has also been instructed on behalf of cruise ship owners.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Giles Mooney KC is a leader in the field of animal law. His client care skills are remarkable. He is an absolute joy to work with.
Personal Injury: Animal ClaimsUK Bar
He is my go-to barrister for animals case. He is a true advocate, happy being on his feet in court. He is a brilliant advocate for his clients.
Personal Injury: Animal ClaimsUK Bar
He knows his law and is someone who you want in your corner, especially on Animal Act cases.
Personal Injury: Animal ClaimsUK Bar
He is a counsel who gets to the heart of the issues which are relevant and focuses on the key issues in a claim.
Personal Injury: Animal ClaimsUK Bar
Giles Mooney is an excellent barrister. He is a great communicator and is spot on with the issues.
Clinical NegligenceUK Bar
Giles is excellent; he is very experienced, has great judgement and is really kind.
Clinical NegligenceUK Bar