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Senior Statespeople

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

31 Years Ranked

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The Chambers Directory 2025 ranked Stephen as a “Senior Statesperson” in personal injury and said “He’s very practical in dealing with cases. He takes a firm but realistic position…He’s very nice as well as phenomenally clever”.

The Legal 500 for 2025 ranked Stephen as a Leading Silk in personal injury and said that he has a “superb attention to detail, very practical and down to earth. Absolutely excellent at mediations and settlement meetings.”

His work involves very high value catastrophic injury claims principally involving brain and spinal injuries.

He also has a particular specialism in motor insurance law for which he is considered to be one of the UK’s pre-eminent lawyers.

He has recent experience of cases in the Channel Islands.

He has been a Recorder since 2002 and he is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

Visit https://12kbw.co.uk/barristers/stephen-worthington-kc/ for further details.

Career

Call: 1976

Silk: 2006

Professional Memberships

Recorder : 2002 – Present

Chairman of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council: 2011 – 2015

Director of Bar Mutual: 2005 – 2009

Committee Member of the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association: 2003 – 2005

Personal Injuries Bar Association

Professional Negligence Bar Association

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Stephen Worthington KC is a highly regarded defendant practitioner who is the preferred counsel for numerous leading motor insurers. He regularly represents clients in large-loss and catastrophic injury defences and in cases that are policy and precedent-setting. He is known for his expertise in cases involving brain injury, paraplegia and spinal injury, as well as those involving serious psychiatric injury. He is further able to advise on motor indemnity and broader insurance issues arising from compliance with European Motor Directives.

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