At 39 Essex Chambers, the team is regularly instructed in clinical negligence claims involving birth injuries, spinal injuries, and delayed diagnosis matters, as well as large-scale medical negligence disputes with cross-border elements. Neil Block KC is very highly regarded for his expertise in representing defendants in complex, high-value claims, including birth injury cases. Romilly Cummerson acts for defendants and claimants in complex cases where medical causation is often in dispute. Rebecca Livesey joined the team in August 2025.
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Romilly is an established insurance practitioner, specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, and related insurance issues. She has developed an extensive practice acting for both claimants and defendants in all types of injury-related litigation, including professional indemnity claims arising out of the negligent handling of injury litigation. Romilly has wide experience of claims concerning all branches of the medical professions. She has represented claimants and defendants in cases involving allegations of negligence against GPs, general surgeons, cardio-thoracic surgeons, cosmetic surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, district nurses, care assistants, opticians, and opthalmologists and has advised on a wide range of issues. Romilly is recognised in the Legal500 directory as a leading practitioner in injury law. She has extensive knowledge of injury-related litigation. Her expertise covers employers’ liability, public liability, occupiers’ liability, product liability, fatal accident claims, occupational disease litigation and motor-related claims. She provides substantive, procedural and tactical advice on liability issues and quantum and regularly handles multi-party actions. As well as being an experienced and highly regarded advocate, she is often instructed to conduct round table settlement conferences and to represent parties in mediation.

Career

Called to the bar 1998.

Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; INQUEST Lawyers Group; London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association.

Education

MA (Cantab); LLM (Cantab).

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