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Provided by Peter Burns KC
Peter specialises in catastrophic injury claims, with particular expertise in brain injury, spinal injury and amputation cases. He has extensive experience of claims involving complex issues of causation, including intervening clinical negligence. He is regularly instructed in high value fatal accident cases, particularly those involving care as a services dependency. Occupiers' liability is an area of special interest.
Peter acts both for defendants and claimants.
Called 1993. King's Counsel 2019. Postmaster at Merton College, Oxford.
Personal Injury Bar Association.
Provided by Chambers
Peter Burns KC specialises in personal injury and industrial disease claims, with additional expertise in insurance matters. He is very able to handle cases related to injuries of some severity, including high-value claims for brain and spinal injury. He primarily represents defendants, and is regularly instructed in cases involving complex medical causation issues.
Provided by Chambers
He is highly innovative on his strategy, incredibly user-friendly and super easy to work with: this is a real bonus. The way that he marshals expert opinion is also supremely impressive.
Peter is one of the leading KCs in the region, if not the country. Exceptional talent. You can be absolutely reassured by his advice.
Peter provides a high level of client service and is popular with clients as a result.
For high value brain and spinal cord cases Peter is one of the go-to silks. He's very easy to get on with, easy to talk to and calms the situation.
He is highly innovative on his strategy, incredibly user-friendly and super easy to work with: this is a real bonus. The way that he marshals expert opinion is also supremely impressive.
Peter is one of the leading KCs in the region, if not the country. Exceptional talent. You can be absolutely reassured by his advice.
Peter provides a high level of client service and is popular with clients as a result.
For high value brain and spinal cord cases Peter is one of the go-to silks. He's very easy to get on with, easy to talk to and calms the situation.
