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Eliot Woolf KC
Work Department
Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Travel Law
Position
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Travel Law.
Career
Qualified 1993, Inner temple and took silk in 2018. Publications of note include: ‘Personal Injury Practice’ (Bloomsbury, 6th edition).
Eliot Woolf KC specialises exclusively in the fields of Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury (domestic and international). His Clinical Negligence practice is wide ranging, representing both claimants and defendants. His Personal Injury work has a focus on catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims, military claims and foreign accident / group illness claims.
He is regularly ranked as a Leading Individual in each of his practice areas in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
Memberships
Education
Robinson College, Cambridge (MA 2(1)); City University (Dip).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Eliot Woolf KC –Outer Temple Chambers ‘Razor sharp intellect and a wonderful style with clients. A fantastic litigator.’
Outer Temple Chambers has ‘good strength in depth at both silk and junior level’ in the clinical negligence space. Eliot Woolf KC has a notable specialism in wrongful birth cases, while Nathan Tavares is acting in the Lariam claimants v Ministry of Defence claim, concerning military personnel who suffered long-term psychiatric symptoms after being negligently prescribed an anti-malarial drug. Junior Tom Gibson appeared in the Purchase v Dr Ahmed claim, one of the three secondary victim conjoined appeals concerning psychiatric injury to those who have witnessed the death of a loved one due to negligence, which progressed to the Supreme Court in May 2023, he has additional strength in sports-related clinical negligence cases.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Eliot Woolf KC –Outer Temple Chambers ‘Eliot is a star. His eye for detail is second-to-none, his responsiveness also second-to-none and an excellent way with clients.’
Outer Temple Chambers is heralded as a ‘top tier London set‘, with particular personal injury expertise regarding sports claims, equine claims, and those with a cross-border element. Sarah Crowther KC has particular strength in such cross-border claims, including EU law interpretation. James Counsell KC and Ben Bradley are instructed for the claimants in AXM v Chelsea Football Club, who experienced racial abuse while playing for the club’s youth sides – exemplifying the set’s sports and abuse expertise. Eliot Woolf KC has notable expertise regarding road traffic accident claims, and Gerard McDermott KC is currently leading a claim for over eight hundred victims of the Grenfell tower fire.