Joel McMillan

Personal Injury

Personal injury is Joel’s bread and butter. Increasingly, his cases are high value and complex and include claims pleaded in excess of £1 million.

He is instructed to deal with all aspects of claims including pleadings, CCMCs, Part 35 questions and conferences with experts, advising on liability and quantum, JSMs, and trials.

He acts for claimants and defendants in roughly equal measure. He enjoys seeing litigation from both sides, and considers it an advantage when considering tactics and strategy in a case.

Some examples of Joel’s recent work include:

• Helping secure £1.1 million in personal injury damages in the Employment Tribunal for a claimant whose employer subjected her to sex discrimination. The unlawful treatment caused the claimant significant psychiatric injury, which in turn left her unable to resume her career in banking. The case gained widespread national media attention and made the front page of the Financial Times. Further information about the case can be found here.
• Acting for one of the Defendants in a complex, multi-party occupier’s liability claim, and successfully arguing that the relevant defendant was not an occupier of the premises in question.
• Securing a total settlement of c.£250,000 for four claimants at JSM in claims for disease caused by defective premises.
• Various chronic pain cases for claimants and defendants.
• Numerous findings of fundamental dishonesty against claimants who lied in relation to liability and/or quantum.
• Acting for, and advising, a claimant who was seriously injured in an accident on a building site in a claim with multiple defendants who all initially denied liability. The claim settled for a six-figure sum.

Joel is happy to consider instructions on a CFA basis where appropriate.