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Paul is a Personal Injury specialist with 25 years of experience.
Paul has been consistently ranked as a leading junior in the field for over a decade. Paul is currently ranked as a Band 1, Leading Junior in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories.
Paul is instructed by both claimants and defendants, with his current case load covering the full spectrum of the most serious claims, including brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, orthopaedic polytrauma and fatal accidents, arising from road traffic accidents, employers’ and public liability claims.
Paul has extensive experience across the full range of issues in complex and high value claims, including:
• Rehabilitation Code and the Serious Injury
• Full Care and Case Management packages
• Capacity
• Accommodation claims
• Substantial loss of earnings, including for the self employed
• Elective and traumatic amputations
• Prosthetics
• Assistive Technology
• Provisional Damages
• Statutory Funding
• Periodical Payments
Paul regularly undertakes cases of several million pounds as sole Counsel, is frequently against Kings Counsel and given his experience, is regularly instructed as a Junior to Kings Counsel in highly complex or catastrophic claims, where he undertakes much of the drafting, interlocutory Court hearings, including CCMCs, and conferences with the full range of expert witnesses.
Paul has a particular interest in cases involving amputations and prosthetics, and as a keen cyclist and former motorcyclist, claims arising from cycling and motorcycling accidents.