No5 Barristers' Chambers

Personal Injury

Paul specialises in serious and catastrophic personal injury claims. He has over 25 years of experience in the field and is instructed by both claimants and defendants.

Paul has been consistently ranked as a leading junior in the field for over a decade and he is currently ranked as a Band 1, Leading Junior in the field by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners’ directories.

Paul’s current case load covers the full spectrum of high value and complex claims, including brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, orthopaedic polytrauma and fatal accidents, arising from road traffic accidents, employers’ and public liability claims.

Paul regularly undertakes cases of several million pounds as sole Counsel, is frequently against King’s Counsel and given his experience, is regularly instructed as a senior junior to King’s Counsel in highly complex or catastrophic claims, where he undertakes much of the drafting, interlocutory Court hearings and conferences with the full range of expert witnesses.

Paul has a particular interest in cases involving amputations and prosthetics, and as a keen cyclist and former motorcyclist, claims arising from cycling and motorcycling accidents.

Paul has a substantial advisory element to his practice, is regularly instructed for his advice in conference, his drafting skills, Schedules/ Counter Schedules, in addition to undertaking all forms of ADR, including Round Table Settlements, Pathways/ Way Forward meetings, the full range of interlocutory hearings, trials, appeals and inquests.

Paul is extremely accessible, easy to work worth, has a prompt turnaround of work and excellent attention to detail. Paul is very effective in a team, regularly working with King’s Counsel and multiple solicitors in catastrophic claims.

Costs formed a large part of Paul’s early practice and with CCMCs being so fundamental to the effective running of high value personal injury claims, Paul is frequently instructed to advise on case planning and budgets. Paul is happy to attend CCMCs without a separate costs draftsperson.

Paul has extensive experience across the full range of issues in complex and high value claims, including:

• Rehabilitation Code and the Serious Injury

• Full Care and Case Management packages

• Capacity

• Accommodation claims

• Substantial loss of earnings, including for the self employed

• Elective amputation

• Prosthetics

• Assistive Technology

• Provisional Damages

• Statutory Funding

• Periodical Payments

• Pain conditions

Paul read Biology at Kings College, University of London, before being called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2001.  Paul has been ranked as a Leading Junior in the directories for Personal Injury consecutively for over a decade.

Personal Injury Bar Association

King’s College London BSc. Biology (First Class Honours) Nottingham Post Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation) Inns of Court School of Law Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent)