Philip Grundy > Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile
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Philip Grundy
Work Department
Personal Injury
Disease
Clinical Negligence
Catastrophic Injury
Costs
Employment
Accidents Abroad
ADR and Mediation
Position
Philip practises in all areas of Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Employment Law and sits as a Recorder in The Crown Court and County Court, being authorised to sit on serious sexual offence cases including rape.
All forms of maximum severity claims are regularly undertaken with a 65:35 split between Claimant and Defendant work. The majority are either accidents at work or RTA claims, often motorcyclists, for solicitors throughout England and Wales including the south coast and The Channel Islands.
Philip has a substantial disease practice including asbestos, bladder cancer, VWF/HAVS, deafness, fibromyalgia/chronic pain and others. Philip is recognised as having the greatest experience of perhaps all Counsel at the Bar in England and Wales in the field of vibration white finger, and has been involved in many of the leading cases.
All areas of clinical negligence have been covered over the past 30 years including hypoxic brain injury to babies resulting in an extensive involvement with neonatologists, paediatric neurologists, neuro-radiologists and obstetric experts. He works, on average, on 30 brain injury cases each year.
Philip specialises in catastrophic injuries, in particular brain injuries, spinal injuries and amputees. His experience in this field has been described by a partner in one of the country’s leading solicitors as ‘second to none’.
He has been instructed by large specialist firms of solicitors in multiple numbers of cases including those involving acquired brain injury, spinal injuries and amputations together with complex orthopaedic and polytrauma injuries.
Career
Called 1980; Middle Temple; assistant recorder (1996); recorder Crown and County Court. Philip joined St John’s Buildings in 1987.
Memberships
- Personal Injury Bar Association
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Recorder Crown Court and County Court – appointed 2000
- Head of SJB Serious & Catastrophic Injury Unit
Education
Philip read Law at Cardiff University
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Philip Grundy – St John’s Buildings ‘Philip is a barrister with exceptional strengths in his profession; he is a fearless advocator, logical in his approach, empathetic towards clients, and methodical and concise in his work. He is able to get to the heart of the matter and provide compelling arguments in support of his clients, and his exceptional skills make him an excellent choice for anyone in need of a skilled and dedicated barrister.’
St John’s Buildings is praised as ‘an excellent chambers providing a good selection of solid barristers in the clinical negligence field’. One such member is Philip Grundy, who has significant expertise in handling cases around consent and cauda equina, in addition to delayed diagnosis of illnesses. The set is also home to Henry Vanderpump, who works almost exclusively for claimants, and his cases often involve complex surgical procedures and delayed cancer diagnoses. Like Vanderpump, Richard Norton also focuses on claimant work, especially cases regarding surgical negligence and negligent post-operative care. Alastair Wright has a well-established clinical negligence practice, and Rebecca Titus-Cobb is another notable name, acting for claimants and defendants, including NHS trusts.
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Philip Grundy – St John’s Buildings ‘Philip is at the top of his game, is a titan intellectually, and has charisma and empathy, enabling him to deliver exceptional legal advice to seriously injured clients. He is meticulously well prepared and his advocacy skills are exemplary.’
St John’s Buildings ‘has an excellent set of personal injury counsel’ and its members act for claimants and defendants across a broad range of matters, from road traffic accidents and employers’ liability, to industrial diseases and fatal accidents claims. Philip Grundy frequently represents claimants in major brain injury, amputee, and paraplegic cases, and Richard Norton predominantly acts for claimants in high-value claims – he acted for a claimant who alleged an allergic skin reaction as a result of exposure to excessively bright lights at his workplace, causing an unusual skin disorder.