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Holly joined Farrar’s Building in October 2023 after successfully completing her pupillage and gaining experience across Chambers’ core areas of practice including Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Regulatory Law.
Prior to pupillage, Holly worked at the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Hearings Coordinator. She gained experience of a wide range of hearings, including long-running, complex and high-profile substantive hearings, as well as hearings involving multiple registrants.
Holly appears in court regularly for both claimants and defendants. She accepts a range of instructions including small claims, fast track trials, and interim applications. She is developing a paperwork practice and is happy to accept instructions to draft pleadings, schedules and counter schedules as well as to advise on liability, quantum and tactics.
Holly has a keen interest in disability rights and has previously appeared on BBC Radio 4’s “Law in Action” podcast and the “Disability’s not a Bar” podcast, speaking about her experiences.
Personal Injury
Holly is developing a busy personal injury practice. She is regularly instructed on small claims and fast track trials and is happy to accept instructions for interim applications and Stage 3 disposals.
She also accepts paperwork instructions to draft pleadings, schedules and counter schedules as well as to advise on liability, quantum and tactics.
Holly is willing to accept instructions on a CFA basis.
Clinical Negligence
Holly is keen to develop her practice in this area, having gained exposure to clinical negligence work during her pupillage. She welcomes instructions in this area on behalf of both claimants and defendants.
Credit Hire
Holly is regularly instructed in credit hire matters for both claimants and defendants. She is adept at handling all aspects of credit hire including the issues of need, enforceability, impecuniosity, period, rate and intervention.
Regulatory & Disciplinary
Holly is interested in all aspects of regulatory law and is building on her previous experience working for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to develop a regulatory and disciplinary law practice.
She completed a three-month secondment at the NMC in 2024 and is frequently instructed by the NMC to appear in interim order, substantive order review and substantive hearings.
Civil Fraud
Holly is happy to accept instructions from both claimants and defendants where issues of fraud and/or fundamental dishonesty arise.
If you would like to instruct Holly Girven or would like help or advice in doing so, please call and talk to our excellent clerking team, led by Chief Executive/Director of Clerking, Paul Cray. Our phone number is +44 (0)20 7583 9241. Alternatively, please email us at chambers@farrarsbuilding.co.uk
For more information about our clerking team, please click here for the clerks page.
Appointments & Memberships
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Personal Injury Bar Association
Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
Education & Qualifications
2019-2020: BPTC (with integrated LLM), University of Law
2016-2019: Law LLB, University of Warwick
Scholarships, Prizes and Awards
2023: James Hunt prize for best advocacy performance in the Pupil Trial Exercise, The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn.
2019: Headridge Scholarship, The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
2018: Undergraduate Research Support Scheme
2016: Lincolnshire Police Volunteer of the Year and Chief Constable’s Overall Recognition Award
Personal Interests
In her spare time Holly enjoys swimming and watching musicals.