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Peter Burns KC

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Position

Peter specialises in catastrophic injury claims, with particular expertise in brain injury, spinal injury and amputation cases. He has extensive experience of claims involving complex issues of causation, including intervening clinical negligence. He is regularly instructed in high value fatal accident cases, particularly those involving care as a services dependency. Occupiers’ liability is an area of special interest.

Peter acts both for defendants and claimants.

Career

Called 1993. King’s Counsel 2019. Postmaster at Merton College, Oxford.

Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association.

Education

Manchester Grammar School; Merton College, Oxford (BA 1st class, scholar); College of Law, Chancery Lane; Inns of Court School of Law; Inner Temple Pegasus Scholar to the USA.