Robert Weir KC KC > Chambers of Andrew Burns KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

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.

Fielding practitioners noted as ‘strong at all levels of seniority’, Devereux‘s members are active in a broad spectrum of clinical negligence cases, including major cognitive and spinal injuries, serious surgical errors, as well as pursuing high-value birth injury claims requiring expertise in gynaecology and obstetrics cases. The set hosts expertise such as Robert Weir KC, who was notably active in McCulloch v Forth Valley Hospital  and Paul and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, both major cases regarding patient information and secondary victim claims, respectively, resolved in the Supreme Court. Junior barrister Robert Hunter is frequently involved in fatal accident and cognitive injury claims, such as a claim brought against a GP for failing to act on a potential sepsis case with sufficient urgency.