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Daniel Neill
Work Department
personal injury, clinical negligence and regulatory work (healthcare)
Position
Daniel Neill specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and regulatory work (healthcare).
He has a busy personal injury practice, acting for claimants and defendants in a broad spectrum of claims. He has recently settled a chronic pain claim for a former member of the armed forces for £800,000 and a claim on behalf of several vulnerable dependants following a fatal road traffic accident for £1million. He is regularly instructed by defendants in employers’ liability claims and where fundamental dishonesty is alleged. He undertakes work in all the usual practice areas.
His clinical negligence practice ranges from surgical and obstetrics claims to more niche areas such as ophthalmology and dentistry. He has a loyal following of solicitors with whom he enjoys working closely from the very outset of cases, providing a strategic overview from pre-action correspondence to settlement or trial.
His regulatory cases have covered a panoply of performance, conduct, competence and health issues.
Daniel also sits as a Recorder on the Western Circuit, dealing with criminal matters.
Career
Called 2008: Lincoln’s Inn.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel did a PhD and taught English literature at Cambridge University.
Memberships
PIBA, ARDL.
Education
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; UCL.
Personal
Co-author of the Occupiers’ Liability section of APIL Personal Injury Law, Practice and Precedents.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Old Square Chambers‘ personal injury counsel are ‘second-to-none‘, with ‘a breadth of experience‘ acting for both claimants and defendants on issues from catastrophic injury to industrial disease. Ben Collins KC is acting for the claimant in Suresh v GMC, a case brought by the widow of a doctor who took his own life after being the subject of unfounded allegations, this claim considers the liability of GMC to its doctors. Charles Woodhouse KC has notable experience in claims regarding spinal cord injuries; Katherine Howells has standout expertise in international claims, and those involving serious brain injuries. The set is known for, but by no stretch of the imagination defined by, its historical connections to trade unions and the Western circuit; Daniel Neill joined the set in 2022 from Guildhall Chambers.