Personal Injury | UK Bar

Guildhall Chambers is a top-tier set on the Western Circuit, with "barristers who are willing to take on more challenging cases that other sets turn down and with good success rates." Members are regularly instructed to act on behalf of both claimants and defendants, including several major insurers and corporate bodies, and are experienced in the handling of claims involving chronic pain, fatal accidents and catastrophic and psychiatric injuries. A recent instruction saw the set acting on behalf of a golf professional suffering complex peripheral nerve and psychiatric injury. Additional areas of strength for the team include industrial disease cases and complex employers' and occupier liability disputes. Barristers at Guildhall recently acted for the claimant in Dominic Lovatt v Goodwin Steel Castings, who suffered severe injuries, including having their leg crushed.

Senior practice managers Stephen Arnold and Caroline Evans lead the civil clerking team at the set.

A market-leading set on the Western Circuit, St John's Chambers is "a set that you can rely on from start to finish". It is well regarded for its formidable personal injury offering and "personable barristers with excellent technical and client facing skills. Its barristers regularly act for and advise both claimant and defendant clients, including numerous key insurance companies, in high-value catastrophic and fatal injury claims. Industrial disease and stress at work claims serve as further sources of instruction for members, and the set houses additional experience in the handling of cases involving allegations of dishonesty and fraud. Recent instructions have seen members represent a farm worker who fell approximately twelve metres into an empty grain silo, suffering life-altering injuries.

Adam Marston and Hugh Maguire lead the personal injury and clinical negligence clerks as joint practice managers.

The personal injury barristers at Old Square Chambers are regularly instructed to act for both claimants and defendants in the full range of personal injury matters. Its barristers have expertise on matters including catastrophic spinal and brain injury, chronic pain and fatal accident claims. The set's members are also well regarded for their handling of difficult quantum disputes and complex employers' liability and stress at work claims, drawing on the set's recognised strengths in costs and employment law. One instructing solicitor calls Old Square "one of the best sets at the bar for personal injury work" and its members acted for an art school artist who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury after being hit by a stolen moped.

Senior Clerk William Meade leads the clerking team.