Personal Injury

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Outer Temple Chambers is recognised as a leading set of chambers in personal injury work. We offer specialist advice and advocacy to claimants and defendants in every aspect of this field. We boast expertise across the full spectrum of personal injury work – from tripping accidents to catastrophic brain and spinal injury cases – and extensive experience in multi-party actions and public inquiries.

Our experience in personal injury work includes:

  • Health and safety at work
  • Industrial diseases
  • Fatal Accidents Act cases
  • Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority matters
  • Road traffic accidents
  • Sports injuries
  • Aviation accidents
  • Accidents abroad

We aim to provide clear advice on the merits and value of claims and successful guidance through the complexities of litigation or alternative dispute resolution. We maintain a tradition of providing sound legal advice whilst bearing in mind the commercial and financial realities of litigation and the individual needs of our clients.

Our personal injury team has a number of specialist silks in addition to experienced senior and junior counsel who manage our cases with tact and sensitivity.

Members of our team regularly lecture and conduct seminars on developments in personal injury issues for the legal profession and insurance industry. We also contribute to the press and to legal publications. We belong to a number of relevant professional bodies such as the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA).

Members of our team have recently been involved in a number of leading cases in this field including Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 1052, Freeman v Lockett (2006) EWHC 102, the effect of state funding for care and Corbett v South Yorkshire SHA (re: indexation of periodical payments) together with numerous multi-party claims such as the Cape Asbestos action, Bangladesh arsenic and Giambrone food poisoning cases.

Our facilities are fully accessible to all disabled clients, including those dependent on wheelchairs for their mobility. If required, members of Chambers are happy to travel to attend conferences.

Should you require any further information on our personal injury team, please contact Graham Woods, Team Leader, on 020 7353 6381.

 

What the directories say 

Legal500, 2008

Outer Temple Chambers has developed a ‘ blue-chip' reputation and has restructured its clerking team to great effect.

Gerard McDermott QC is considered ‘ a rarity' thanks to his technical knowledge and accessibility.

Andrew Spink QC combines an ‘ imaginative approach' with ‘ strong authority' to great effect in settlement conferences.

Clients recommend Harry Trusted for his ‘ pleasant yet authoritative manner'; other juniors include Alison McCormick for providing ‘ sensible solutions to problems raised', and Patrick Sadd who is ‘ strong when advising, drafting and on his feet'.

 

Partners and Chambers 2008
This set has cemented its strong reputation for personal injury work due to its crop of top-quality silks and juniors. It has benefited from the addition of five barristers from the defunct 199 The Strand and now houses more than 40 personal injury experts.

By combining "clear advice" and "straight-forward analysis," Andrew Spink QC remains at the forefront of the field. He focuses on multiparty actions with an emphasis on foreign jurisdiction matters and spinal and brain injury claims.

David Westcott QC is renowned for his capabilities in both personal injury and clinical negligence work. A "polished advocate" who is "extremely bright," he is "the complete package as a QC."

Meanwhile, the "impressive" James Aldridge maintains an active practice, as does Christopher Kemp. Kemp mostly represents claimants in catastrophic injury cases, particularly those relating to brain and spinal injuries.

Matthew Phillips has a nationwide practice focusing on industrial disease work and claims of the utmost severity.

Debuting in the tables this year is Eliot Woolf. He acts for both claimants and defendants in the full range of personal injury matters.