Barristers

Amrit Atwal

Amrit Atwal

Park Square Barristers Ltd., Yorkshire And The Humber

Work Department

Personal Injury

Position

Personal Injury, Industrial Disease and Professional Negligence

Amrit has over 10 years’ experience of working within disease litigation. He has extensive experience of undertaking multi-track trials involving cross examination of medical experts within various areas including; NIHL, HAVS, CTS, Asthma, WRULD as well as all around experience of understanding complex disease cases. He has experience of working in all areas including Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), Military NIHL (M-NIHL), Tinnitus only claims, Work Related Upper Limb Disorders (WRULD), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), Asbestosis, Mesothelioma, Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) claims, PTSD, Silicosis and Non-Cold Freezing Injury claims. He also has experience of Dupuytren’s contracture and other emerging areas of disease litigation. Amrit is also retained on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning claims.

He is regularly instructed in 6 and 7 figure value claims and provides strategic help early doors in all complex claims including TBI cases. He has a calming manner with clients and is empathic to their issues. He is experienced in undertaking high value JSM’s.

He was instructed on behalf of the Claimant in Finn v Cammell Laird Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders Limited [2024] which involved the first successful use of the MLC (2022) guidelines on behalf of the Claimant in a claim involved both broadband noise exposure and impulsive noise exposure.

Amrit has substantial GLO experience, he has been involved in group actions for the last several years having been involved in JSM’s for 30+ HAVS/CTS claims and 15+ NIHL claims. He was also the junior counsel involved in resisting a GLO in military claims.

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Amrit is also retained in other group litigation involving the ongoing Pan-Nox diesel litigation.

Career

Call 2011

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