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Charles Edwards

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Work Department

Personal Injury

Position

Partner in the Personal Injury department.

Charles is an experienced, collaborative practitioner with more than 25 years’ experience in the field of personal injury who thrives on achieving the best possible outcomes for his clients. He is listed in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, which highlights lawyers who have received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence and are considered to be at the pinnacle of the legal profession.

Charles specialises in the highest-value and most complex value personal injury claims, with a particular interest in claimants who have sustained either spinal cord or brain injury. He has experience in dealing with a variety of types of claims, covering road traffic accidents, accidents at work and in accidents public places.

Over the past 20 years of his career at Stewarts, Charles has settled claims for clients totalling in excess of £200m. These include high-level spinal cord injury cases, brain injury cases involving minimally aware clients, high-earning City workers, and claims with an international element.

Career

After obtaining a law degree, Charles obtained a master’s degree in International Business Litigation from King’s College London. Following law school, his training took place at a regional firm where he gained exposure to a wide range of practice areas. Charles then specialised in civil litigation, before moving to a large national firm to focus on personal injury in their serious injury department. He joined Stewarts in 2003, was made Partner in 2006, and specialises in the most severe and complex claims.

Memberships

  • APIL, Senior Litigator

Education

After obtaining a law degree, Charles obtained a master’s degree in International Business Litigation from King’s College London.

Leisure

Charles is a keen amateur athlete who has competed in a number of marathons and distance events. He is particularly proud of finishing in the top 20% of competitors at the UK Half Ironman (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 13.1-mile run) and still has ambitions to complete a full distance ironman, albeit he has been saying that for a number of years now.

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London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant

(Hall of Fame)

Charles Edwards – Stewarts Law LLP

The personal injury team at Stewarts Law LLP is made up of ‘first-class litigators who get excellent results for their clients‘. The firm acts for clients with life-changing injuries in exclusively complex claims worth over £1m; such cases often involve brain or spinal cord injuries, as well as losses of limb, severe burns, severe orthopaedic injuries and severe neurological injuries. The team also has a dedicated international injury offering. Team lead Dan Herman works across the London and Leeds offices, and is ‘proving to be exceptional’ in the role. The team is building a ‘collaborative approach’ with insurers to better progress early rehabilitation services for clients; Charles Edwards has been central in developing protocols with various insurers to this effect. This focus on rehabilitation for clients is also evident in Ben Rogers‘ work with technology developed to assist injured people. Lucy Robinson has notable expertise in cases involving brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation, and is singled out by a client as ‘one of the best all-round PI lawyers there is’. Managing partner Stuart Dench continues to be an active presence within the team.

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