Julian Chamberlayne

Practice Areas

Julian has a rare dual speciality of acting for clients who have sustained life-changing or fatal injuries in an international context. He has successfully recovered over £155 million in the UK and across the globe for claimants who have sustained spinal cord and severe brain injury, amputations, and for the families of fatal accident victims.

Julian also specialises in costs and litigation funding.

Career

Julian joined Stewarts in 2000, made partner in 2002, founded the international injuries team in 2007 and was appointed the firm’s compliance officer for legal practice in 2012.

He is the firm’s Risk & Funding Partner which involves developing and implementing improvements to the legal services Stewarts provides to its all of its clients, including innovative cost and funding options. He provides firm-wide risk management, strategic input and partnership level representation for the firm’s Knowledge, L&D, Compliance and Cost & Funding functions.

Professional Memberships

Chairman of the Forum of Complex Injuries Solicitors (FOCIS). APIL Fellow and accredited specialist in spinal injury and accidents abroad. Member of the Law Society PI Panel, ISCOS and PEOPIL.

Publications

Julian authors two chapters of the well-regarded Schedule of Loss textbook. He is a regular contributor to a wide variety of legal journals and lecturer at national and international conferences.

Julian actively lobbies to preserve and enhance the law for those who have suffered life changing injuries, including recent responses to governmental consultations concerning damages, fatal accidents, motor accidents and automated vehicles.

Personal

Julian cycled solo from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in 1999-2000, a total of 15,000 miles. He rides a bike on a daily basis.