Niall Maclean

Niall Maclean specialises in complex and high value personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence work, acting for claimants and defendants. He is consistently ranked as a Band 1 / Tier 1 leading junior in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.

He generally acts in cases valued in excess of £1 million, usually unled, and frequently against silks.

Niall’s personal injury practice focuses on:

- catastrophic injuries and fatalities;

- brain injuries;

- serious spinal injuries including tetraplegia;

- complex orthopaedic cases, including all forms of amputation;

- functional neurological disorders;

- chronic pain syndromes; and

- serious psychiatric conditions.

Niall’s long-established industrial disease practice is focused on claims involving exposure to asbestos, chemicals, noise and biological hazards. On behalf of claimants, Niall has fought and won numerous asbestos exposure cases giving rise to difficult liability, causation, limitation and quantum issues. He is a recognised authority in the field, and is in demand as a speaker and author on these topics.

Niall’s clinical negligence work covers the full range of breach of duty and causation issues that tend to arise. He has fought and won difficult cases, including in relation to the delayed diagnosis of rare forms of cancer.

Called 2008, Lincoln’s Inn. Awarded the Megarry Scholarship, Buchanan Prize, Lord Denning Scholarship, Lord Bowen Scholarship and Hardwicke Entrance Award.

One of the Attorney General’s Junior Counsel to the Crown from 2015 to 2020.

Contributor to Asbestos: Law & Litigation, Sweet & Maxwell, 2022.