Oliver Moore > Chambers of Anna Vigars KC > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
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Guildhall Chambers
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Oliver Moore
Work Department
Personal injury; costs and litigation funding; insurance litigation; inquests.
Position
Oliver is a very experienced specialist Personal Injury and Costs Litigation barrister. He was a solicitor (with Higher Rights) before transferring to the Bar.
He is recommended as a Leading Junior in both Legal 500 and Chambers UK for Personal Injury and Costs Litigation. He is the only barrister on the Western Circuit recommended in both directories for both Personal Injury and Costs Litigation.
He is the co-head of Chambers’ PI/Clinical Negligence Team and head of the Costs and Litigation Funding team.
Career
Called 2005, Grays Inn. Trainee solicitor, Cole & Cole, now Morgan Cole (1996-98); solicitor, Bond Pearce (1998-2005); higher rights of audience, civil (2004); transferred to the Bar and joined Guildhall Chambers (March 2005); appointed to the Regional Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (November 2010).
Oliver has a substantial Personal Injury practice mainly consisting of serious and catastrophic injuries. He is co-head of Chambers’ PI/Clinical Negligence team.
Oliver has worked in the field of personal injury for over 23 years. He was formerly a defendant PI solicitor, and his background is of assistance in both his claimant and defendant work.
In his time working in this field, he has dealt with an enormous variety of cases. Particular areas of interest and expertise include:
- Fatal accident claims;
- Brain injury claims;
- Claims involving loss of chance of career and/or promotion;
- Chronic pain cases.
Oliver is head of Chambers’ Costs and Litigation Funding team and his knowledge and experience in costs is frequently sought after in respect of PI claims in which he is instructed.
Oliver’s aptitude in respect of procedural issues means he is often sought after for contentious applications and procedural appeals.
Oliver has a specialist costs practice and heads Chambers’ Costs and Litigation Funding team. He receives instructions nationwide to advise/represent parties in all aspects of civil costs.
His instructions have covered a wide range of practice areas (including property litigation, wills and trust disputes, Court of Protection) but most often arise from PI/Clinical Negligence claims.
Oliver has advised and represented parties in relation to costs disputes for many years (he did his first “taxation” (as it was pre-CPR) almost 25 years ago) and has a great depth of experience and knowledge.
Oliver is co-head of Chambers’ PI/Clinical Negligence Team and head of the Costs Team.
Oliver’s expertise in costs is sought after in many clinical negligence claims. He is renowned for his handling of CCMCs in high value clinical negligence claims, particularly in Bristol District Registry.
He increasingly accepts instructions in clinical negligence claims more generally and over his years in practice he has acquired a wide experience of substantial claims.
Memberships
PIBA.
Education
- BA Hons, Law & Politics, Nottingham University
- Diploma of Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Costs
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Oliver Moore – Guildhall Chambers ‘Oliver’s knowledge of the costs rules and case law is second to none. His advice is always practical and sensible, and his advocacy is excellent.’
‘A great set in Bristol’, Guildhall Chambers has a long-established presence in the market, with members regularly appearing before the senior courts costs office and regional costs judges. Practice head Oliver Moore regularly assists with both contentious and non-contentious costs work, mainly involving personal injury and clinical negligence claims, and is known for his ‘forensic and comprehensive approach to cost pleadings and attendance at assessment’. James Wibberley is known for his ‘impressive advocacy‘ and is currently defending a law firm facing solicitor assessment proceedings in the range of £450,000 based on the way the firm handled the claimant’s matrimonial proceedings, in the case Xanthopoulos v Miles Preston.
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Oliver Moore – Guildhall Chambers ‘Oliver is very knowledgeable, with a wealth of experience and a good eye for detail. He has a good rapport with clients, simplifying complex legal issues in a way that the client understands.’
Guildhall Chambers is a ‘very competent set with an excellent collection of counsel experienced in the field of personal injury litigation’. Oliver Moore is ‘excellent in assisting with case management and case strategy’ and successfully acted for a prison officer who had to take early retirement on ill health grounds, which happened due to the passive exposure to synthetic cannabinoids smoked by an inmate. Anthony Reddiford, ‘a real tactician, who gets to the crux of a case quickly’, regularly represents both claimants and defendants in personal injury matters. James Bentley is ‘a safe pair of hands’ who is known for ‘providing advice on the most complex and difficult claims’, and his workload involves high-value brain injury, fatal accidents and chronic pain claims.