Serious Injury

What our Serious Injury Barristers offer

The Serious Injury Team at Kings Chambers has a well-deserved reputation for dealing with claims arising from injuries of the utmost severity and the practice encompasses various aspects of personal injury matters.

We offer the highest quality advisory and advocacy services to those that have suffered life changing injury or those defending such claims. The team specialises in dealing with child and adult acquired head injury cases, spinal injuries, amputations, other orthopaedic injuries and chronic pain related conditions.

We have a wealth of experience within these areas, at both first instance and appellate level.

The QC’s within the serious injury group are known for their expertise in dealing with complex and high value catastrophic injury claims acting for leading national clients.

Pain syndromes

Chronic pain cases are challenging in terms of initial identification, preparation, budgeting and trials. Kings Chambers has a nationwide reputation for successfully handling such cases from the initial stages through to trial.

Fiona Ashworth heads a small but highly specialist team of barristers focusing on chronic pain including:

• Chronic pain syndromes
• Fibromyalgia
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Conversion Disorder
• Somatoform Pain Disorder.

Fiona and the team are renowned for their expertise in the field. They act for their claimants and defendants across the country.

This bespoke and accessible service is designed specifically to meet the needs of the clients and solicitors in these complex cases.

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

The team regularly acts in maximum award CICA cases on behalf of injured clients.

What the directories say about our Serious Injury Barristers

Chambers UK 2023

Kings Chambers is a well-regarded set on the Northern Circuit boasting a strong bench of dedicated barristers who are well placed to handle a range of complex injury claims. Areas of particular strength for the team include high-value catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims, as well as industrial disease matters and cases involving chronic pain syndromes. The set is regularly instructed to act for both claimants and defendants, and counts several large organisations, local authorities and major insurers among its varied clientele.

Client service: 

“I always get a Rolls-Royce service from the clerks at Kings."

“They are exceptionally prompt.”

Stephen Loxton is the director of clerking.