JUNIOR PROFILE

Katherine Howells

UK Bar 2026

Old Square Chambers

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

9 years ranked

Travel: International Personal Injury

London (Bar)

12 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Katherine Howells specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, travel, aviation and associated commercial proceedings.

She has extensive experience acting for Claimants and Defendants. Katherine’s domestic practice has a focus on high-value fatal and traumatic injuries sustained in road traffic and workplace accidents or assaults, particularly brain injuries and psychiatric and pain conditions, together with cases involving occupiers’ and public liability

Her clinical negligence practice is concerned principally with hospital acquired injuries.

She also has a significant travel practice with particular specialist knowledge of and interest in aviation matters. Katherine deals frequently with claims involving accidents overseas, foreign nationals injured or killed in the UK, questions of jurisdiction and applicable law, the right to cross border recovery of benefits, claims under the Package Travel Regulations and Athens Convention, Montreal Convention passenger death and injury, delay and lost or damaged baggage claims, delayed and denied boarding and downgrading claims under EC Regulation 261/2004 and accidents on board aircraft (including hot air balloons and microlights) or at airports or airfields.

She is also experienced in dealing with contractual and other recovery proceedings by tour operators against foreign suppliers, aviation maintenance disputes and claims concerning IATA Ground Handling Agreements.

Career

Called to the Bar in 1994.

Professional Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association, Travel & Tourism Lawyers Association.

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Katherine Howells is an impressive junior who acts predominantly on behalf of claimants and deals with a wide range of claims, relating to matters such as brain and spinal cord injuries, psychiatric injuries and amputations, as well as fatalities. Her cases often arise out of RTAs and accidents at work, and she is noted for her expertise in employers', public and occupiers' liability claims. She is regularly instructed in multiparty litigation.

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Travel: International Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Katherine Howells handles claims arising from accidents resulting in serious injury and death overseas. She is also experienced in the handling of claims involving foreign nationals injured in the UK. She has a strong focus on the aviation industry and handles, among others, matters concerning air accidents and airport- and airfield-related incidents.

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Strengths

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She is fiercely independent and is all over the detail. She is very good on strategy. A safe pair of hands, Katherine knows the market brilliantly.
Personal InjuryUK Bar
Katherine Howells is a very significant personal injury practitioner. She knows her stuff.
Personal InjuryUK Bar
Katherine is fiercely independent and is all over the detail. She is a commander of the detail and is very good on strategy and the tactics to apply that strategy. She is a safe pair of hands.
Travel: International Personal InjuryUK Bar
Katherine is very well known as a tenacious fighter and for getting the most out of her cases. She is very effective in court and always has an excellent grasp of the facts and law.
Travel: International Personal InjuryUK Bar
She is excellent in conferences with clients.
Travel: International Personal InjuryUK Bar