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Personal injury

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Temple Garden Chambers

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Temple Garden Chambers‘ ’responsive, down-to-earth and user-friendly as well as technically excellent’ personal injury team appears on behalf of defendants and claimants, with notable experience in matters pertaining to allegations of fraud as well as cases touching on national security issues. Paul Kilcoyne specializes in military claims, such as recent non-freezing cold injury claims against the Ministry of Defence - he represented a paratrooper suffered a near-fatal accident on a jump organised by the American military in Italy after a static lien became entangled around the claimant's left arm.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'TGC have a superb team of PI counsel at all levels, the vast majority of whom are responsive, down-to-earth and user-friendly as well as technically excellent'
  • 'Leaders in the field with a number of excellent barristers. '
  • 'An excellent set. It often appear against its members and am always impressed by their depth of knowledge and work ethic. '
  • 'TGC offer a range and depth of quality counsel at all levels for both claimant and defendant PI.'
  • 'very good communications with solicitors.'
  • 'Clerks are always friendly and willing to help, such as finding counsel to help when in a bit of a fix. Have found all clerks to be excellent.'
  • 'An excellent set. It often appear against its members and am always impressed by their depth of knowledge and work ethic. '

Lawyers

Leading Silks

KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.

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Dominic Adamson KC
‘Dominic is an astute, technical and highly skilled advocate who manages to bring his own sense of purpose to the claims he works on. He has excellent client care skills and takes control of difficult situations with a view to balancing interests.'
3
James Arney KC
‘James is impressiely on top of detailed and tricky expert evidence. He is skilfull and realistic in negotiations.’

Personal injury - Leading Juniors

Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.

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James Bell
‘James provides practical and realistic advice. He does not sugarcoat bad news but always has a strategy to present a case in a compelling and supportive manner.’
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Marcus Grant
‘Marcus is extremely hardworking and really understands the medical evidence. He is very thorough and presents well thought out arguments at court.’
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James Laughland
‘He is very good at cutting through to the crux of a matter and focusing on the key points. He is a strong negotiator – has secured some excellent results at JSM in many cases. Good handling of difficult clients.’
2
Lionel Stride
‘Lionel has a great depth of knowledge of catastrophic personal injury claims. He is extremely personable and approachable and has a fantastic attention to detail.’
2
Richard Wilkinson
‘Calm and unflappable. Technically excellent. Sound level-headed approach and advice.’  
3
Peter Freeman
3
Paul Kilcoyne
‘Very knowledgeable on military claims, good manner with clients and approachable.’
4
Benjamin Casey
Ben is diligent, hard working an a master of detail. He turns around his work always on time and it is the work of the highest quality.’
4
Paul Erdunast
 ‘Paul is very dependable – a very approachable barrister, and always willing to speak about difficult issues in cases and how best to engage with them.’
4
Alexander Glassbrook
4
Edward Hutchin
4
Anthony Johnson
‘Anthony is one of the most fearless and robust cross examiners at the civil Bar.’
4
Paul McGrath
‘Paul is equally formidable as and advocate, on paper, in advices and drafting and before client and in JSM. He has always had a fine attention to the relevant information and is excellent at boiling things down to and prioritising key issues.'
4
Tim Sharpe
‘Tim analytical acumen is second to none. He has the ability as well to simplify the complex and deliver it simply and transparently in court. He has a keen attention to detail and adopts a very robust strategy to his brief.’
5
David White
‘Good attention to detail, has a calm demeanour and develops a good relationship with the client from an early stage. Shows empathy.’
5
Charles Curtis
5
Emma-Jane Hobbs
‘Very good on paperwork and very good at establishing a rapport with clients. With Emma-Jane, you feel like you are working together as a team.’
5
Michael Rapp
‘Overall a top quality barrister across all disciplines of advocacy, drafting, conferences and advice. A thorough and focused advocate who knows how to present a case to its best effect to achieve results every time.’