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Chambers of James Counsell KC and Keith Bryant KC
Outer Temple Chambers
THE OUTER TEMPLE, 222 STRAND
LONDON
WC2R 1BA
England

Living Wage

Work Department

Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Aviation & Travel

Position

Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Aviation & Travel.

Career

Ben was called to the bar in 2007.

Ben Bradley acts for Claimants and Defendants, in cases where individuals have suffered life changing injuries.

He is listed as a leading junior by the legal directories across his core practice areas of personal injuryclinical negligence and travel law. He has been recognised for his particular specialisms in catastrophic injury cases and complex medical negligence work.

His client care skills are frequently praised, being noted as someone who is able “to put clients at ease” and who “relate[s] well to his clients regardless of their intellectual ability”.

Ben enjoys a busy practice, generally being instructed by the leading Claimant and Defendant firms in the country. During the lockdown period in 2020, he recovered in excess of £40m for various Claimants who had suffered various catastrophic injuries.

He is registered as one of Chambers’ pupil supervisors.

Memberships

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Clinical negligence

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3

Ben BradleyOuter Temple ChambersBen is quite simply outstanding. His analytical mind is extraordinary.’

London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud

(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2

Ben BradleyOuter Temple Chambers ‘Excellent with clients and quick to get to the nub of the issue. Persuasive in court but tenacious when the need arises.’

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.