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Personal Injury | UK Bar

North Eastern (Bar)

This section covers the full scope of litigation arising from injuries sustained outside of a clinical context. This includes litigation arising from workplace accidents, motor accidents and abuse claims. Purely travel-related injuries are covered in a separate section entitled Travel: International Personal Injury, within the Travel section of the guide. Industrial disease is covered in our Industrial Disease sub-table.

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Band 1
  1. Parklane Plowden
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    Parklane Plowden
    Personal Injury
    2024 | Band 1 | 20 Years Ranked
    Parklane Plowden is the leading chambers on the North Eastern Circuit for personal injury matters, with instructing solicitors noting its "excellent set of barristers who are able to handle complex and novel matters with expertise and ease." The areas of expertise for the team include high-value catastrophic brain and spinal injury as well as amputation claims, acting for both claimant and defendant clients. One recent example of such work involved acting for a maintenance fitter whose dominant arm had to be amputated above the elbow following a workplace accident. The set's barristers are frequently involved in high-profile and leading cases, and have experience of appearing before both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
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Band 2
  1. Kings Chambers
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    Kings Chambers
    Personal Injury
    2024 | Band 2 | 1 Years Ranked
    Kings Chambers is a well-regarded set on the North Eastern Circuit with dedicated barristers who are well placed to handle a range of complex injury claims. Areas of particular strength for the team include high-value catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims, as well as industrial disease matters and cases involving chronic pain syndromes. The set is regularly instructed to act for both claimants and defendants, and counts several large organisations, local authorities and major insurers among its varied clientele.