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Mr Christopher Walker
Position
Christopher is a catastrophic personal injury specialist, instructed on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants. His work is predominantly conducted against silks, whether led or instructed alone. Christopher has considerable experience in litigating the established categories of employer liability, road traffic accident and public liability claims and has a reputation as a skilled negotiator. His practice encompasses clinical negligence claims, health and safety prosecutions, coroners’ inquests and litigation with a focus on human rights. His current caseload includes claims for severe brain injury (rtas, accident at work), paraplegia (public liability & rta), brachial plexus and other severe, multiple orthopaedic injuries, including traumatic amputation.
Career
MA, Law (Cambridge); Licence Speciale en Droit Europeen (Universite Libre de Bruxelles); Harmsworth Scholar, Middle Temple.
Memberships
PIBA
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Christopher Walker –Devereux ‘Christopher is very detailed conscious and very thorough. He is excellent with clients.’
Devereux Chambers‘s personal injury offering is composed of ‘very experienced, tactically astute PI barristers’, predominately handling high-value and sophisticated disputes involving maximum severity brain, spinal and orthopaedic injuries, as well as psychiatric injuries stemming from assault or sexual abuse. In addition, the set’s mandates also include public liability claims involving police or local authorities with a Human Rights Act component. Robert Weir KC is a port of call in the chambers for appellate level disputes, recently acting in the TUI UK Ltd v Griffiths Supreme Court case concerning the court’s powers to reject expert reports which the parties claim are uncontroverted. Christopher Walker notably was instructed on behalf of the claimant in Raymond-Scott v UK Research & Innovation, a case that arose from the non-freezing cold injury incurred by the claimant while working at the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica, and saw liability, causation and quantum all in dispute in an eight-day trial.