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Henry Witcomb KC
Position
Henry Witcomb KC has a practice specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, public authority liability and inquest representation. He has been involved in several of the leading cases in these fields.
A significant amount of the work in both the clinical negligence and personal injury fields has involved participation in several multi-party actions, a number of which have involved claimants residing abroad. Principally these actions have involved the abuse and care of children but also involving other classes of personal injury and clinical negligence claimants.
Career
Call: 1989; KC: 2016; Lincoln’s Inn; 1998-90 legal reform campaigner (initiating legislative proposals and non-legislative reform); freelance legal journalist (publishing in both national and specialist press); tenant at 1 Crown Office Row; former co-opted member of the Bar Council’s Legal Services Committee (civil justice specialist); former member of Lord Woolf’s Enquiry team (Fast Track Working Party); former Law Commission pre-publication consultee (personal injury law reform programme). Accredited CEDR Mediator; Local Authority trained mediator.
Memberships
PNBA; APIL.
Education
Durham University (BA Hons in Law 2(1)).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Henry Witcomb KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘Henry is thoughtful but decisive and his advices are second-to-none.’
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Henry Witcomb KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘Very bright, hard working, and has an excellent client manner.’
1 Crown Office Row are a ‘very experienced set‘, going ‘the extra mile’ for both claimant and defendant clients, with wide health law experience and crossover inquest and child abuse expertise. Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC has standout strength in abuse work, notably in the last year leading Justin Levinson for the claimants in both HXA v Surrey County Council and YXA v Birmingham CC, both cases in which claimants had been abused in their family homes and not removed by social services despite records and reports of this abuse documented. Both claims were reinstated in these second appeals, having been struck out previously. Henry Witcomb KC has notable experience in cross-border multi-party actions.