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Satinder Hunjan KC KC
Position
Satinder Hunjan KC undertakes a range of general commercial work, insurance, private and manufacturing liability (including industrial plant and materials, consumer products and pharmaceuticals), construction and professional negligence (legal, sports, media, accountants and finance, architects and related professionals).
The work that he undertakes is of very high value (multi million). It often involves issues which are novel and challenging. The matters are inevitably of particular complexity and often involve highly technical and specialist expert issues and disputes. He has a strong interest in work within an international framework including jurisdictional issues.
Satinder has significant experience in the personal injury field of acting on behalf of claimants and defendants in major injury claims including injuries of the utmost severity, and he has a special interest in brain and spinal injuries. Satinder also undertakes litigation on behalf of claimants and defendants in all areas of clinical negligence. This includes substantial claims involving cerebral palsy and other birth injuries; severe brain and spinal injuries; injuries of the utmost severity; claims arising from the use of medical products and equipment; human rights; medical ethics and disciplinary and similar proceedings.
Satinder Hunjan KC acts on behalf of medical and other professionals and interested parties in disciplinary and other similar proceedings and inquiries. He also acts in criminal proceedings which involve fatal, multi party and other very serious accidents and incidents and which are likely to have a significant impact on the workings and activities of the commercial and other organisations involved. He has acted in defence of many national and major companies and organisations in prosecutions brought by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities. He has been instructed by many of the major insurers and loss adjusters in such proceedings, seeking to preserve their interests in respect of any subsequent civil or commercial claims. His work includes advisory work undertaken in contemplation of criminal, disciplinary and other processes.
Career
Year of Call: 1984
Year of Silk: 2002
Recorder (2003)
Appointed to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge (2008)
CEDR Accredited
Sports Barrister of the Year 2016; Finance Monthly Magazine
Clinical Negligence Barrister of the Year 2015; Lawyer Monthly Magazine
Memberships
PNBA and PIBA.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Satinder Hunjan KC – Kings Chambers ‘Satinder has to be one of the best if not the best KC around. His mastery of the expert evidence and pleading of a case is outstanding. There is nobody better in handling settlements of cases at mediation or a joint settlement meeting. He is also outstanding when it comes to advocacy but his excellent management of cases often means they never get to trial.’
Kings Chambers is well-known as ‘an excellent set with plenty of strength in depth’ when it comes to clinical negligence work. Satinder Hunjan KC handles complex and high-profile cases, standing out for ‘his mastery of the expert evidence’. Anna Diamond’s ‘knowledge of the issues of clinical practice and medicine is outstanding’. Nicholas Truelove has recently been instructed by a claimant in relation to a group litigation against the neurosurgery department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, concerning the systematic misplacement of brain stimulation devices used to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Satinder Hunjan KC –Kings Chambers ‘Satinder is an extraordinary barrister. He can handle the most complex and challenging cases with total confidence. He is a tactical genius and leaves no stone unturned in getting the absolute best outcome in any case. He sees the woods for the trees. He is excellent with clients and a fantastic advocate at court or in settlement meetings.’