Marcus Grant
UK Bar Guide 2025
Star Individuals : Personal Injury
Star Individuals
About
Provided by Marcus Grant
Practice Areas
Marcus Grant is ranked as a ‘Star Individual’ Personal Injury Junior by Chambers & Partners (London) 2025, as he has been over the last 9 years.
He specialises in brain injury, chronic pain and spinal cord litigation. He is noted for his leadership in exploring recent neurological and chronic pain developments in the Courts and is regarded for his insight into the nuances of the medicine .
He was Counsel in the leading High Court decisions that defined the medicine in mTBI litigation:
Palmer v. Mantas & Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company[2022] EWHC 90,
Stansfield v. BBC [2021] EWHC 2638
Long v. Elegant Resorts [2021] EWHC 1330
He has litigated 14 diffuse axonal injury [“DAI”] claims to trial over the last 16 years, 10 to judgment, from Van Wees v Kharkour [2007] EWHC 165 to Williams-Henry v. ABP [2024] EWHC 806.
He contributed a chapter on ‘Medico-legal perspectives in TBI litigation’ for The Oxford Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury.
In 2024 he chaired the bi-annual Re: Cognition Health International Seminar: 'The TBI Iceberg - A silent killer'
Career
PIBA
SE Circuit
Publications
He contributed a chapter: ‘Medico-legal perspectives in TBI litigation’ for The Oxford Textbook of TBI.
Personal
He is a Lincoln’s Inn Senior Advocacy Tutor and teaches on the Inn’s New Practitioners Advocacy Training Programme. He takes on cases for Advocate, The Pro Bono Charity for the Bar and has mentored 12 pupils over the years at TGC. He currently mentors two pupils under the BDABar scheme
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Marcus Grant is a pioneer in the areas of complex subtle brain injury and chronic pain syndrome. He has been at the cutting edge of fibromyalgia litigation for many years. He is also instructed by insurers for committal proceedings for dishonest litigants.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Marcus is one of the hardest-working barristers I have worked with. He is extremely thorough, great with clients and really understands the medical evidence."
"He is a fierce advocate with a great reputation."
"His intellect is massive but he wears it lightly. His strategic ability is absolutely unparalleled.He has a friendly way with clients, but a steely interior and determination for the fight."
"Marcus is exceptional. His advice on brain injuries is second to none. He is genial and establishes a lovely rapport with clients in conference."
"Marcus is one of the hardest-working barristers I have worked with. He is extremely thorough, great with clients and really understands the medical evidence."
"He is a fierce advocate with a great reputation."
"His intellect is massive but he wears it lightly. His strategic ability is absolutely unparalleled.He has a friendly way with clients, but a steely interior and determination for the fight."
"Marcus is exceptional. His advice on brain injuries is second to none. He is genial and establishes a lovely rapport with clients in conference."