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David Roderick

020 7583 9241 droderick@farrarsbuilding.co.uk View profile

Position

David specialises in high value personal injury work, acting for both claimants and defendants. Current instructions include several severe brain injury, spinal injury, amputation, chronic pain, and fatal accident cases.  

He is regularly instructed by leading solicitor firms, major insurers, and local authorities and combines a busy practice advising in relation to liability, quantum and tactics with regular advocacy in court at CCMCs, interlocutory hearings, and trials. David has extensive experience representing claimant and defendant clients at joint settlement meetings and mediations in claims with multi-million-pound valuations. 

David also has a specialist practice in clinical negligence claims, and expertise appearing at inquests, and in inquiry work. 

Career

Called 2005; Middle Temple. 

2008 to 2011; Support counsel to Baha Mousa Public Inquiry 2008 to 2011.  

2010 to 2011; Judicial Assistant to Sir William Gage, Chairman of the Inquiry. 

Memberships

• Employment Lawyers Association 
• Personal Injuries Bar Association 
• South Eastern Circuit 

Education

• MA, King’s College, London  
• LLM, King’s College, London 
• CPE, University of Westminster 
• BVC, Inns of Court School of Law 

Leisure

Theatre, reading history and political biography, and running.