Katherine Howells

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.