Paul Kirtley

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.

Called 1982

• Recorder (1999) – Civil, Crime and Private Family Work
• Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004)
• Chairman of the Bar Conference (2006)
• Accredited Workplace Mediator (2014)
• North Eastern Circuit Representative on the General Council of the Bar (10 years)
• Former Vice Chair Public Affairs Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Bar Council
• Senior Accredited Advocacy Trainer (North Eastern Circuit)

• The Professional Mediators’ Association
• Personal Injury Bar Association
• Employment Law Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Employment Lawyers Association
• Industrial Law Society

• MA (Cantab). Downing College, Cambridge
• Called to the Bar July 1982: Middle Temple
• Harmsworth Scholar