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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. Animal claims are covered in our Animal Claims sub-table.

Rankings overview for Sets

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  1. Lloyd Williams KC30 Park Place
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  1. Andrew ArentsenFarrar's Building
  2. Ben Davies30 Park Place
  3. Nicholas David JonesCivitas Law
  4. Rebecca MansellCivitas Law
  5. Simon HughesFarrar's Building
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  1. Andrew MorseFarrar's Building
  2. Sam AynsleyNine Chambers

All Sets profiles

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Band 1

  1. 30 Park Place
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    30 Park Place
    Personal Injury
    2026 | Band 1 | 22 Years Ranked

    30 Park Place is a leading personal injury chambers on the Wales & Chester Circuit, noted for their "wide range of barristers of all levels of experience" 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 team is also highly regarded for its expertise in employers' and public liability claims, and cases arising from child abuse. One interviewee praises the stable for their "strong reputation."

    Phillip Griffiths is the senior clerk.

  2. Civitas Law
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    Civitas Law
    Personal Injury
    2026 | Band 1 | 22 Years Ranked

    Civitas Law is praised by solicitors for having "a good variety of counsel on offer to accept instruction." 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 for the claimant in a case concerning a traumatic brain injury caused by a road traffic accident.

    Jamie Clack is the senior clerk.

  3. Farrar's Building
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    Farrar's Building
    Personal Injury
    2026 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked

    Although based in London, Farrar's Building offers a strong bench of junior counsel operating on the Wales & Chester Circuit who are "highly experienced and competent in industrial disease and personal injury claims." 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 in an employer's liability claim where a man suffered a catastrophic hand and forearm injury at work.

    Paul Cray is the director of clerking.