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Chesca Lord
Work Department
Clinical negligence-claimant; employment; personal injury-claimant.
Position
Barrister specialising in employment and discrimination, personal injury, and clinical negligence. Chesca regularly advises and acts in all areas of employment and equality law, including unfair dismissal, redundancy, contractual issues, whistleblowing and TUPE. She has particular experience in complex multi-day discrimination Employment Tribunal hearings across the full range of protected characteristics, and is developing her appellate practice. She is also noted for her expertise in holiday pay, having provided training and/or advice on this rapidly developing area of law to solicitors, individuals and companies (ranging from SMEs to public bodies and major retailers). In her personal injury and clinical negligence practice, Chesca has a particular interest in contested quantum-only cases of the utmost severity. She is regularly instructed to draft complex multi-million pound schedules of loss involving large numbers of expert disciplines. Recent cases in which she has acted as a junior include: a two-week quantum trial resulting in one of the largest reported settlements for an above-knee amputee; numerous birth negligence cases, including obtaining a £1.2m interim payment to enable a property purchase; and a stress at work claim pleaded in excess of £30m. The crossover between Chesca’s areas of expertise is especially valuable in personal injury claims arising in the workplace, in particular her alertness to potential disability discrimination and stress at work issues.
Career
Called 2011; Lincoln’s Inn.
Languages
Spanish (fluent).
Memberships
PIBA; FRU; ELA; ILS; BHRC; DLA.
Education
Oakham School; Oxford University (2009 BA History); City University (2010 GDL, 2011 BPTC); Salamanca University.
Leisure
Swimming, dragon boating, travel.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Chesca Lord –Cloisters ‘Chesca has a brilliant eye for detail, especially where complex Schedules of Loss are concerned. Fantastic attention to minutiae of detail and an amazingly quick analytical brain.’
Cloisters are ‘an excellent chambers for clinical negligence work‘, with ‘an excellent reputation with significant strength in depth‘. Simon Taylor KC ‘s priorv experience as a doctor supports his expertise in difficult medical issues; Joel Donovan KC has particular experience with severe brain injury and cauda equina cases. William Latimer-Sayer KC is recommended for ‘quantum advice of the highest standard’, acting on complex, high-value matters. Notably, he recently led junior Sarah Fraser Butlin KC in HMA v Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, a case concerning a 13 year old boy who sustained a severe brain injury following surgery, leading to cerebral palsy and learning difficulties – a case involving disputed liability and complex quantum concerns. Junior Chesca Lord specialises in quantum-only cases, including those involving traumatic brain injuries.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Chesca Lord – Cloisters ‘Chesca is excellent for quantum PI quantification work. Her attention to detail and novel points for pushing the boundaries for valuing claims is brilliant. ‘
Cloisters are ‘a top set‘ for ‘high-value’ personal injury work, with notable strength in catastrophic injury claims arising from road traffic accidents. William Latimer-Sayer KC continues to be an expert in this area, leading Chesca Lord – a quantum specialist – on a number of complex claims including a case in which the claimant, at 13 years old, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury following a road collision, securing interim payments as the claim continues. Andrew Buchan has particular expertise regarding occupational stress claims; Tamar Burton specialises in the assessment of damages.