Northern Circuit
St John’s Buildings stands out for its ‘huge array of top quality clinical negligence barristers’. Richard Norton is ‘a magnificent barrister’ with an excellent track record in advising on surgical negligence and delayed diagnoses claims, as well as handling cases arising from negligent post-operative care. Daniel Kinnear is ‘a highly experienced clinical negligence practitioner with a unique knowledge of dental law’. Henry Vanderpump‘s broad practice includes cauda equina cases, delayed cancer diagnoses and claims relating to mental health, and Philip Grundy is adept at advising on the full range of clinical negligence matters. Alastair Wright is often instructed in cases involving issues of informed consent.
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Disease
Clinical Negligence
Catastrophic Injury
Costs
Employment
Accidents Abroad
ADR and Mediation
Position
Philip practises in all areas of Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Employment Law and sits as a Recorder in The Crown Court and County Court, being authorised to sit on serious sexual offence cases including rape.
All forms of maximum severity claims are regularly undertaken with a 65:35 split between Claimant and Defendant work. The majority are either accidents at work or RTA claims, often motorcyclists, for solicitors throughout England and Wales including the south coast and The Channel Islands.
Philip has a substantial disease practice including asbestos, bladder cancer, VWF/HAVS, deafness, fibromyalgia/chronic pain and others. Philip is recognised as having the greatest experience of perhaps all Counsel at the Bar in England and Wales in the field of vibration white finger, and has been involved in many of the leading cases.
All areas of clinical negligence have been covered over the past 30 years including hypoxic brain injury to babies resulting in an extensive involvement with neonatologists, paediatric neurologists, neuro-radiologists and obstetric experts. He works, on average, on 30 brain injury cases each year.
Philip specialises in catastrophic injuries, in particular brain injuries, spinal injuries and amputees. His experience in this field has been described by a partner in one of the country’s leading solicitors as ‘second to none’.
He has been instructed by large specialist firms of solicitors in multiple numbers of cases including those involving acquired brain injury, spinal injuries and amputations together with complex orthopaedic and polytrauma injuries.
Career
Called 1980; Middle Temple; assistant recorder (1996); recorder Crown and County Court. Philip joined St John's Buildings in 1987.
Memberships
- Personal Injury Bar Association
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Recorder Crown Court and County Court – appointed 2000
- Head of SJB Serious & Catastrophic Injury Unit
Education
Philip read Law at Cardiff University
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- 'Martin Craggs provides an excellent service.'
- 'Chris Shaw and Martin Craggs are very efficient and friendly.'
- 'Martin Craggs provides an excellent service and is very accommodating.'
- 'Martin Craggs and Chris Shaw are excellent. Nothing is too much trouble for them.'
- 'The clerks are always very helpful and quick to respond to enquiries.'
- 'St John's Buildings in Manchester offers an excellent service.'
- 'In terms of clinical negligence, there is a range of excellent junior and senior counsel.'
- 'A great set.'