Nicholas Siddall

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Year of Call: 1997

Kings Chambers’ team head Nicholas Siddall ‘copes exceptionally well with difficult clients’, and is ‘always thoroughly prepared with excellent written and oral submissions’. Legal 500 2011

Practice:

Personal Injury

Profile:

Nicholas is a specialist in the field of personal injury, and is regularly instructed by solicitors nationally to deal with cases at multi track and fast track level involving:-

road traffic accidents
employer's liability
public liability (highways, occupiers)
fatal accidents
credit hire (principally for Defendants)
holiday accidents
accidents involving animals
CICA claims
All aspects of quantum assessment
Costs assessments, particularly premature issue arguments 

Nicholas acts for Claimants and Defendants in equal measure and is happy to undertake work on a CFA basis.

Owing to Nicholas' employment practice he has particular interest in claims under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in a workplace context.

Highlighted Cases:

Nicholas has recently been involved in the litigation and conclusion of the following cases which are notable either due to their value or nature of the issues involved:-

Serious back injury - £200k settlement after JSM
Serious neck injury - £100k settlement after JSM
Catastrophic injury - £250k settlement after JSM (in conjunction with leading counsel)

Memberships:
Personal Injury Bar Association
Northern and North Eastern Circuits

		Career & Education:
University:		Cambridge (Downing College)
Degree:		Law (MA) Senior Seaton Scholarship University Prize for Company Law
Year of Call:		1997 (Middle Temple)
Other Details:		Nicholas gained the Northern Circuit Free Representation Award in 1999
Languages Spoken:		French