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Personal Injury | UK Bar

Wales & Chester (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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  1. 30 Park Place
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    30 Park Place
    Personal Injury
    2025 | Band 1 | 21 Years Ranked
    30 Park Place is a leading personal injury chambers on the Wales & Chester Circuit, noted for both "experienced counsel and rising stars" who provide expert representation of both defendant and claimant clients. Members are regularly instructed in high-value catastrophic injury, RTA, industrial accident and stress-related injury claims. The set has recently represented a claimant during a three-day liability trial in respect of a slipping accident. The team is also highly regarded for its expertise in employers' and public liability claims, and cases arising from child abuse. One interviewee praises the "attention to detail and service provided." Phillip Griffiths is the senior clerk.
  2. Civitas Law
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    Civitas Law
    Personal Injury
    2025 | Band 1 | 21 Years Ranked
    Civitas Law is praised by solicitors for having "strength in depth" and "experienced counsel." The team is regularly instructed in catastrophic injury and fatal claims, and members act on behalf of both claimants and defendants. Additional areas of strength for the set's barristers include RTAs, complex employers' and public liability claims and industrial disease litigation. Members of the set have been instructed recently on matters including amputation, traumatic brain injury and spinal fractures. Its members recently acted on a matter involving a prison officer attacked at work. Danielle Smith and Matthew Goodwill are the practice managers.
  3. Farrar's Building
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    Farrar's Building
    Personal Injury
    2025 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked
    Although based in London, Farrar's Building offers a strong bench of junior counsel operating on the Wales & Chester Circuit with "depth of expert knowledge and experience combined with commercial acumen." Members are regularly instructed in catastrophic internal injury, traumatic brain injury, injuries sustained from RTAs and sports injury. The set recently acted for a claimant who had an amputation when he was crushed by machinery at work. Paul Cray is the director of clerking.