Mr Paul Kirtley > Exchange Chambers > Leeds, England > Barrister Profile

Mr Paul Kirtley

0113 203 1970 kirtley@exchangechambers.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Employment; Personal Injury; Clinical Negligence; Regulatory; Mediation

Position

Paul is considered one of the leading civil practitioners on the North Eastern Circuit.

His expansive practice covers a wide range of areas including:

• Personal injury and clinical negligence – highly experienced in complex, high value injury claims – particularly traumatic brain injury, amputee and chronic pain claims.
• Employment – regularly appears on behalf of clients in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Civil Courts.
• Regulatory – his practice covers a number of sectors, including police, fire, healthcare, sport and local authority.  He is one of a select group of barristers who is instructed on behalf of the Police Federation to represent its members.
• Mediation – Paul is an accredited civil and commercial and workplace mediator. He regularly mediates in a wide range of disputes, including commercial; employment including race and sex discrimination; public sector; solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims; medical negligence and personal injury claims.

Career

Called 1982; Recorder (1998); Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004).

Memberships

• Personal Injury Bar Association, Employment Law Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Employment Lawyers Association, Industrial Law Society.
• For 10 years, North Eastern Circuit Representative on the General Council of the Bar.
• Former Vice Chair Public Affairs Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Bar Council.
• Accredited Advocacy Trainer (North Eastern Circuit).
• Chairman of the Bar Conference 2006.
• Former Chair of National Charity, ‘Dreams Come True’, engaged in realising the treasured dreams of terminally and seriously ill children.

Education

• MA (Cantab). Downing College, Cambridge
• Recorder (1999) sitting in civil, crime and private family work
• Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004)
• Accredited Workplace Mediator (2014)

Leisure

Paul is a classic car enthusiast, holds an International Rally Drivers Licence and both a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence and PSV licence. He also enjoys hill walking and skiing, notwithstanding his knee replacement operation! He is the former Chair of a national children’s charity ‘Dreams Come True’.