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Romilly Cummerson
Position
Romilly is an established insurance practitioner, specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, and related insurance issues. She has developed an extensive practice acting for both claimants and defendants in all types of injury-related litigation, including professional indemnity claims arising out of the negligent handling of injury litigation. Romilly has wide experience of claims concerning all branches of the medical professions. She has represented claimants and defendants in cases involving allegations of negligence against GPs, general surgeons, cardio-thoracic surgeons, cosmetic surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, district nurses, care assistants, opticians, and opthalmologists and has advised on a wide range of issues. Romilly is recognised in the Legal500 directory as a leading practitioner in injury law. She has extensive knowledge of injury-related litigation. Her expertise covers employers’ liability, public liability, occupiers’ liability, product liability, fatal accident claims, occupational disease litigation and motor-related claims. She provides substantive, procedural and tactical advice on liability issues and quantum and regularly handles multi-party actions. As well as being an experienced and highly regarded advocate, she is often instructed to conduct round table settlement conferences and to represent parties in mediation.
Career
Called to the bar 1998.
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; INQUEST Lawyers Group; London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association.
Education
MA (Cantab); LLM (Cantab).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Romilly Cummerson –39 Essex Chambers ‘Her advocacy is smooth and effective meaning she gets good results for her clients.’
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Romilly Cummerson –39 Essex Chambers ‘Excellent advocate, well reasoned advice, approachable and available for urgent queries.’
Noted for its high quality counsel and strong organisational skills’, the clinical negligence practitioners at 39 Essex Chambers offer ‘strong depth of counsel and practice areas’, with a strong focus on representing NHS and other medical boards. Romilly Cummerson is a notable practitioner in high-value clinical negligence claims, and was the sole counsel in Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust v Bogmer, representing NHS Resolution in a claim pertaining to a coronary artery bypass procedure and the veracity of symptoms claimed by the defendant. The set also includes notable senior barristers such as Susan Rodway KC, active in novel cases spanning clinical negligence and personal injury.