Dispute resolution
Exchange Chambers is ‘a strong set, with expert personal injury barristers’. Pankaj Madan has ‘a calm intellectual demeanour combined with an abundance of knowledge, particularly in the field of brain injury’. Simon Ross has an excellent reputation for advising on personal injury claims involving the military, and has been active in cases concerning road traffic accidents. The ‘decisive, persuasive and firm’ Paul Kirtley has expertise in advising on a broad range of complex personal injury claims, including industrial disease, psychiatric injuries, road traffic accidents, brain and spinal injuries and accidents at work.
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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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Testimonials
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- 'The clerking team is excellent. They are always friendly and quick to respond to any queries.'
- 'Clerks are all excellent.'
- 'Very responsive, efficient and friendly.'
- 'Excellent chambers for this area of work. Great strength in depth.'
- 'A modern, flexible and well organised set.'