Jamie Clarke

Practice Areas

Jamie Clarke has more than 25 years’ experience in his core practice areas of catastrophic/utmost severity personal injury litigation, industrial disease (including asbestos, NIHL, HAVS, workplace cancers), workplace stress, and professional negligence disputes arising out of those areas of practice, principally acting for insurers. Jamie has a reputation with clients for successfully defending employers, public and product liability disputes through to trial. His practice has a particular focus on defending challenging fatal accident claim valuations, acting for historic insurers in mesothelioma and other industrial disease claims and responding to the full range of claims for chronic pain syndromes.

Recently, Jamie has become increasingly recognised for ‘abuse’/neglect claims, including historical sexual abuse, claims involving schools and celebrities and contemporaneous neglect in regulated care / nursing homes. Jamie has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of the conduct of injury and disease litigation on behalf of insurers, such as coverage / indemnity disputes, costs / budgeting, limitation, experts’ disputes, withdrawal of admissions, disclosure/inspection, deployment of surveillance material and settling counter schedules. Jamie has successfully secured “fundamental dishonesty” rulings at trial, leading to enforceable adverse costs orders.

Career

Yarmouth Harbour Commissioner (non-exec role), Council Member (Board Director) Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, Panel Reviewer for Advocate, the Bar’s pro bono charity Advocacy trainer, Gray’s Inn Former elected member Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee Lay Member, London Borough of Lambeth Independent Education Appeal Panel.

Professional Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association Professional Negligence Bar Association British Insurance Law Association LCLCBA

Personal

MA(Hons) Jurisprudence, Christ Church, University of Oxford (1994)