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Marcus Dignum KC
Position
Marcus is a specialist Defendant Catastrophic Personal Injury Silk, who acts for most of the large insurers in the UK defending claims predominantly in the context of RTA and EL/PL work. He also defends clinical negligence claims.
He took Silk in 2020, having been recognised as a Tier 1 Junior in Chambers & Partners and a Leading Junior in The Legal 500 for many years. He is lauded for his “robust, realistic and very personal service.” He combines “intellectual rigour, a commercial approach and great charm” to good effect on high-value catastrophic injury cases.
For many years he has dealt with claims of the highest value and has extensive experience of claims involving the most serious head and spinal injuries where awards are made or settlements reached of several million pounds.
He has particular expertise in cases involving paralysis, amputation and brain injury, including subtle brain injury.
He is much sought after as a trial advocate and was recently instructed to defend one of the largest personal injury claims ever made (£33m) over the course of a 10 day trial in the High Court.
Career
Called 1994.
Memberships
COMBAR; LCLCBA; PIBA.
Education
University of London (BA Classical Studies, First Class).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Marcus Dignum KC– 12 King’s Bench Walk ‘Marcus is an excellent silk. Straight to the point, always gets to the heart of issues very swiftly.’
12 King’s Bench Walk has ‘a strong depth of knowledge and a variety of counsel to suit individual client needs‘ – representing both claimants and defendants across personal injury, industrial disease, insurance fraud and travel claims. Insurance-related personal injury work for defendants is the specialist area of Stephen Worthington KC; William Audland KC continues to be instructed for the RFL in the concussion claims brought by former rugby league professionals in Dyson & Others v Rugby Football League. Andrew Roy KC was made silk in the 2023 round, and was led by Marcus Dignum KC in Mathieu v Hinds and Aviva plc, a brain injury claim which led to the first judicial decision on provisional damages for dementia and featured issues of foreign tax. Navjot Atwal joined the set in January 2023 from 3 Hare Court.