Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant
London (Firms)
23 years ranked
Provided by Anthony Gold
Jenny Kennedy is a Partner on Anthony Gold’s Injury and Medical Claims team.
A complex brain, spinal and amputation expert, Jenny is well known for representing foreign national clients injured in the UK as well as British nationals injured abroad. She settled the first reported case involving indexation of periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction and secured a verdict of unlawful killing before a UK Coroner for the family of a mother killed whilst on holiday In South America.
Described as "one of the most respected PI claimant lawyers in the country" her expertise includes dealing with all the associated elements of catastrophic injury litigation and managing the needs of clients with issues associated with significant head injury. Jenny is recognised as a Star Individual in the Chambers Directory and a Hall of Fame Lawyer in The Legal 500.
Jenny has a medical background, having qualified as a psychiatric nurse, and her clinical negligence expertise includes a wide range of claims of complexities with a special interest in psychiatric and orthopaedic injury cases.
In 2022 Jenny was named "Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year" at the annual PI Awards.
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) member
Law Society Personal Injury panel member
Law Society Clinical Negligence panel member
On the Editorial Board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure
Co-author of Personal Injury Practice (Bloomsbury Professional)
Co-author of Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims (Bloomsbury Professional)
Provided by Chambers
Jenny Kennedy has experience handling spinal, brain and orthopaedic injury claims, including those arising from failures in psychiatric care and misdiagnoses. She also supports clients in cases concerning sepsis.
Provided by Chambers
Jenny is simply the best.
Jenny is the leader in her field. She has a brilliant legal mind, is an astute tactician and achieves amazing results for her clients. She's the full package for any catastrophically injured claimant.
Jenny is a lawyer with an excellent reputation that is well deserved.
Jenny is an outstanding solicitor. Her expertise, her clear communication and her dedication to both the client and the wider team make her an exceptional professional to work with.
Jenny was fantastic, she made me feel very welcome and explained everything to me clearly. She never made anything seem too much trouble and she was great at communicating.
She is a formidable individual who fights very hard for her clients. She is very tactical.
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