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Ms Laura Begley
Work Department
Clinical negligence and personal injury.
Position
All aspects of clinical negligence work and personal injury work with additional expertise in criminal injuries compensation claims.
She is a well-established and highly respected senior junior regularly instructed against silks and occasionally led by silks from chambers. Her work is complex and high value and relates to life changing and catastrophic injuries of any sort. She is approachable, dynamic and knowledgeable. She regularly lectures in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law. She is a qualified arbitrator with PIcARBS.
Publications:
General Editor of the Third Edition of 9 Gough Square’s ‘Clinical Negligence Claims, a Practical Guide‘ published in 2015, Co-author of Criminal Injuries Compensation Claims (Law Society) and General Editor of the 2nd Edition published in 2016. Contributing editor Kemp and Kemp ‘The Quantum of Damages.’ Contributing editor Kemp and Kemp ‘Law Practice and Procedure.’ Contributing editor ‘Guide to RTA Liability‘ (Jordans). She also sits on the editorial board of ‘Medicine Science and the Law’, the journal of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Career
LLB (Hons) Leeds (1991); BVC (Inns of Court School of Law) (1993); Called to the Bar 1993 (Lincoln’s Inn); Pupillage completed at 9 Gough Square, with Grahame Aldous QC and Richard Merz and thereafter tenant at 9 Gough Square.
Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Association of Personal Injuries Lawyers.
Education
Leeds (1991 LLB Hons).
Leisure
She has three children; twin boys and a girl who keep her on her toes and are a constant source of fun and inspiration. She loves riding her bike, running and yoga when time allows. She appreciates the odd glass of wine and good food and any opportunity to sit in one place (preferably in sunshine) and read novels.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Laura Begley – Deka Chambers ‘Excellent advocacy and written and speaking skills, deployed in resolution of complex and high-value claims.’
Launched in October 2022 by the merger of 9 Gough Chambers and 1 Chancery Lane, Deka Chambers ‘has huge strength-in-depth from its silks to its juniors’ – bringing together the claimant and defendant-side strengths of both sets. Edward Bishop KC has notable experience in birth injury claims – he acted for the defendant in ZXB v UCL Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a maximum severity birth injury claim involving issues of breach of duty, causation and material contribution. Laura Johnson KC has involvement in the case of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, representing the claimants whose father died following negligent failure to identify his heart problems – the cases touching on issues of case law, dating back to the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, on psychiatric injuries caused by witnessing injuries caused by negligence. Simon Readhead KC specialises in claims involving catastrophic neurological injuries, and turning to the set’s juniors Laura Begley is a nother notable name, with experience in claims from negligent spinal surgery to injuries in vulnerable clients with pre-existing issues.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Laura Begley – Deka Chambers ‘Laura is thorough with an excellent eye for detail which extends into her advocacy.’