North Eastern Circuit
Paul Kirtley – Exchange Chambers
Exchange Chambers' Paul Kirtley is ‘an exceptional mediator, who manages to achieve settlements in cases that seem unresolvable. He always does everything he possibly can to facilitate settlement and is very creative in his problem solving’. An accredited civil and commercial and workplace mediator, Kirtley mediates commercial and employment disputes, as well as cases involving the public sector, medical negligence and personal injury claims. Other notable areas are probate, trusts, property and boundary disputes, along with solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims. Kirtley has also developed a busy offshore mediation practice, particularly in the Isle of Man.
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Profile
Work Department
Employment; Personal Injury; Clinical Negligence; Regulatory; Mediation
Position
Paul is considered one of the leading civil practitioners on the North Eastern Circuit.
His expansive practice covers a wide range of areas including:
- Personal injury and clinical negligence – highly experienced in complex, high value injury claims – particularly traumatic brain injury, amputee and chronic pain claims.
- Employment – regularly appears on behalf of clients in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Civil Courts.
- Regulatory – his practice covers a number of sectors, including police, fire, healthcare, sport and local authority. He is one of a select group of barristers who is instructed on behalf of the Police Federation to represent its members.
- Mediation – Paul is an accredited civil and commercial and workplace mediator. He regularly mediates in a wide range of disputes, including commercial; employment including race and sex discrimination; public sector; solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims; medical negligence and personal injury claims.
Career
Called 1982; Recorder (1998); Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004).
Memberships
- The Professional Mediators’ Association
- Personal Injury Bar Association
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Industrial Law Society
Education
- MA (Cantab). Downing College, Cambridge
- Recorder (1999) sitting in civil, crime and private family work
- Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004)
- Accredited Workplace Mediator (2014)
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