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Eliot Woolf

Called to bar 1993

Clerk Graham Woods Tel: 020 7353 6381
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Eliot’s personal injury practice covers all areas of work, with a particular emphasis on accidents abroad, military and aviation claims, disease work and catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims. He is involved in a number of group actions, one of the most recent of which concerns over a thousand Claimants in a gastric illness claim arising from a package holiday in the Dominican Republic.

Eliot’s clinical negligence practice is wide ranging, acting on behalf of Claimants and the NHSLA. In the last year, he has been involved in cases involving obstetrics, oncology, psychiatric illness, gynaecology, orthopaedics, physiotherapy, gynaecology and neurosurgery.

Eliot Woolf regularly attends inquests and appears on behalf of applicants in the CICA. He recently acted for the family in an inquest into the death of a compulsorily detailed mental health patient who died during the course of a restraint.

Eliot is involved in a number of professional negligence arising out of mishandled personal injury and clinical negligence actions.

He is cited in Chambers and Partners 2009 as a leading junior in the fields of Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury and Travel Law.

Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, Public Law, Discipline & Regulatory

What the directories say

Clinical Negligence
new entry Eliot Woolf is gaining a name in failure to diagnose and obstetric matters. Woolf is a "stand-out hard worker who is quick to turn round paperwork." He is "highly analytical and has a marvellous comprehension of medical law."
Chambers & Partners 2009

Personal Injury
Sources further recognise Eliot Woolf as a "rising star" who is "thorough and reliable, with a very good understanding of costs matters." He has acted on behalf of claimants and defendants in a range of employers' liability and foreign jurisdiction claims.
Chambers & Partners 2009

Legal 500 for Personal Injury. He is described as ‘very thorough and reliable and (unusually for counsel) has a very good understanding of costs issues'
Legal 500 (2007)

Travel
Eliot Woolf of Outer Temple Chambers has built a niche specialism for himself acting in cases relating to gastric illnesses contracted while travelling abroad, and has acted for a large number of claimants in the past year. He is "a pleasant operator" who is "good at dealing with judges." New to the Chambers ranking.
Chambers & Partners 2009

The “talented” Eliot Woolf of Outer Temple Chambers enters the rankings for attracting further instructions from both claimants and defendants in mass class and group actions. 
Chambers & Partners 2008

Publications
Eliot Woolf contributes the Chapter on Judicial Review for ‘The Litigation Practice’ published by Sweet and Maxwell and is the joint author of ‘Personal Injury Practice’, published by Butterworths.