Personal Injury

Farrar’s Building has one of the strongest Personal Injury practices at the Bar. We have two of the leading silks in this field, John Leighton Williams QC and Alan Jeffreys QC together with a strong contingent of junior counsel. We have been instructed in a significant number of the leading cases over the last decade – Wells v Wells, Heil v Rankin, Babcock International Limited v National Grid (Fairchild Mesothelioma Appeals), Callery v Gray and Sarwar v Alam.

We have also been instructed and appeared in the Ladbroke Grove, Paddington and Hatfield rail disaster inquiries.

This is the largest field of practice for Chambers as a whole. We are involved in the whole spectrum of cases from very serious catastrophic injury claims to straightforward small track claims. We cover all aspects of personal injury work, from road traffic accidents, including mechanical defect and causation issues, accidents at work, "slips and trips", injuries caused by defective products, disaster and disease litigation.

Members appear for both claimants and defendants. We are instructed by a number of insurers, large and small, as well as undertaking a considerable volume of work funded either privately or under conditional fee agreements.

Our personal injury practice group has a thriving seminar and lecture programme and publishes a monthly analysis of current Personal Injury law which is sent out electronically and posted on our website.

For further details, please contact the Clerks, or to see the most recent edition of our Personal Injury Update, click on the following link – Update