JUNIOR PROFILE

Nina Ross

UK Bar 2026

12 King's Bench Walk

Ranked in 3 practice areas

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

5 years ranked

Travel: International Personal Injury

London (Bar)

1 year ranked

Civil Liberties & Human Rights

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

About

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UK Bar

Practice Areas

Nina is ranked as a leading junior in personal injury in the current editions of Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, which note that Nina is “crystal-clear in her thinking and analysis” (Legal 500) and has “a commanding presence when on her feet” (Chambers and Partners).

Nina specialises in claims arising out of sexual and physical assaults; harassment claims; military claims; international and group litigation; and human rights aspects of personal injury law. She has been instructed in high-profile litigation in these fields, including in:

• Ella Janneh v Michael Lousada [2024] EWHC 1464 (KB): claim for sexual assault brought against therapist.

• Sayn-Wittgenstein v Juan Carlos 1 [2023] EWHC 2478 (KB) (led by Jonathan Caplan KC and Andrew Green KC): claim for harassment brought against the former King of Spain.

• X v Kuoni [2021] UKSC 34 (led by William Audland KC): a claim brought under the 1992 Package Travel Regulations for sexual assaults committed by a hotel employee in Sri Lanka, which was referred by the Supreme Court to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling on a point of European law.

• Alseran & Others v Ministry of Defence [2017] EWHC 3289 (QB) [2018] 3 W.L.R. 95 (led by Richard Hermer KC and Harry Steinberg KC): claims against the MoD brought by Iraqi civilians who allege that they were assaulted and unlawfully detained by UK military personnel during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Visit https://12kbw.co.uk/barristers/nina-ross/ for further details.

Career

Call: 2010.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

UK Bar

Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Nina Ross is a talented personal injury barrister who is noted for her expert representation of both claimant and defendant clients. She is particularly well regarded for her handling of complex and high-value military claims and cases arising from physical and/or sexual abuse.

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Travel: International Personal Injury - London (Bar)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Nina Ross is a strong up-and-coming barrister in the travel space with a solid knowledge of trespass to the person cases, particularly those involving international sexual assault claims.

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Civil Liberties & Human Rights - London (Bar)

Band 4

Individual Editorial

Nina Ross has been instructed in number of British Army and military-related matters, where human rights issues were raised. She is also noted for her personal injury work, and for representing modern slavery victims.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

She is extremely impressive. She is a highly intelligent, thoughtful and imaginative lawyer who produces excellent documents and is a very impressive and compelling advocate.
Personal InjuryUK Bar
Nina is fantastic with abuse clients. She has a wealth of experience and knows the law and procedure in this area like the back of her hand.
Personal InjuryUK Bar
She is very empathetic but also cuts through to the key issues.
Personal InjuryUK Bar
She is an abuse law specialist across really high-profile work. She is really one to watch.
Travel: International Personal InjuryUK Bar
If you come across tricky legal situations, you know Nina will come back to a way forward because she's researched all the technicalities.
Civil Liberties & Human RightsUK Bar
Nina Ross has great attention to detail.
Civil Liberties & Human RightsUK Bar