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Adam Weitzman KC
Position
Barrister specialising in tortious claims for personal injury. High value claims involving brain damage, spinal injuries and fatal accident, clinical negligence and claims against local authorities in relation to sexual abuse of children, negligent social work, including failure to remove, and educational negligence. Particular experience in both the CICB and CICA dealing with claims of maximum severity, often brain damaged children. Significant criminal experience although this is now restricted to cases involving the HSE and other regulatory work. Also a specialism in costs disputes.
Career
Qualified 1993; Middle Temple Inn.
Education
St Paul’s School, London; Cambridge (1989 BA); Manchester (1991 MA); City of London Polytechnic (1992 CPE).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Adam Weitzman KC –7BR ‘Adam is a master of detail and a formidable advocate.’
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Adam Weitzman KC –7BR ‘An excellent ability to cut through to the key issues and to assess strengths and weaknesses of a case – superb advocacy skills at trial.’
7BR is a ‘fantastic set’ noted for its ‘excellent spread of counsel at all levels of call’. Simeon Maskrey KC is an expert acting in maximum severity injury claims; Richard Baker KC was elevated to silk in the 2023 round. The set also has standout expertise in abuse litigation: this year including Adam Weitzman KC‘s leading Caroline Lody in the Court of Appeal for the defendant in AB v BCC and WCC, involving the threshold for parental neglect to be reached before a local authority’s positive duty under Article 3 of the ECHR is engaged, and Steven Ford KC‘s work in DJ v Barnsley MBC, an appeal regarding whether the local authority is vicariously liable for family members who foster children.