Barr Ellison LLP

Barr Ellison Law is a Cambridge based law firm serving East Anglia. We have been trusted legal advisors to successful people and businesses since 1874, promoting our clients’ interests. Going beyond great service, we identify opportunities and empower our clients to take advantage of them.

The firm is celebrating its 150th anniversary by supporting the Arthur Rank Hospice throughout 2024. Arthur Rank has played an important part in our city by caring for thousands of people over the past 40 years.

Catastrophic personal injury: Barr Ellison Law deals with all the needs of our personal injury clients and their families in one place, including Court of Protection, personal injury trusts, wills, family and property. Its dedicated personal injury team comprises knowledgeable, experienced lawyers with empathy and decades of specialist expertise focused on complex and catastrophic injury work. The team specialises in brain injury, spinal injury, amputations, road traffic accidents and other catastrophic injuries.

Barr Ellison has an office within Addenbrooke’s Hospital to ensure we are immediately approachable for clients and their families in all areas of law. The team is extremely well connected locally having excellent relationships with key contacts for its clients. Examples of this include medics at Addenbrooke’s Hospital along with case managers and therapists, enabling the provision of a caring, bespoke and individual service for its clients and their families.

Despite Barr Ellison having an office within Addenbrooke's Hospital, we are committed in our approach in never taking on cases against the NHS.

Our personal injury team focus heavily on rehabilitation. The types of cases involve multiple catastrophic brain injury (child and adult), spinal injury, psychological injury and amputation cases. For example making a settlement of £10.7m for a young woman who suffered a brain injury as a result of a road traffic collision. The team has obtained significant interim payments under the Rehab and Serious Injury Codes to secure specially adapted accommodation for their clients. The team has decades of experience dealing with complex paediatric cases and recently secured a £7m settlement for a child who sustained a traumatic brain injury.

View our Personal Injury Guides here.

Personal wealth: wills, trusts, IHT and estate planning: The firm’s personal wealth practice is recognised for its strength and reach throughout East Anglia. We have acted for world-renowned academics, high-net-worth individuals and business owners, as well as advising Cambridge colleges on private client matters. The firm is ‘extremely efficient and quick to deal with the work’ and clients enthusiastically recommend partner Emma Parsons, who shows ’professionalism, good humour and energy’.

We are able to assist with the following:
• Making a Will and storing it safely for you (storage is free of charge)
• Planning to minimise Inheritance Tax
• Making outright gifts to loved ones
• Setting up a trust fund in your lifetime and administering it on your behalf
• Dealing with your assets on death (Probate/Administration of your Estate) and ensuring the terms of your Will or intestacy rules are followed.

View our Personal Wealth Guides.

Property services: Barr Ellison Law has built a solid reputation over many decades in all areas of property.

We work with our clients to achieve enhanced value for their land through property development. The firm acts in many large and small scale developments, assisting clients throughout the development process from property sale or acquisition through to planning agreements, joint venture agreements, overage agreements and infrastructure issues. ‘Barr Ellison reigns supreme in the property development world in East Anglia.’ (Business Weekly)

View our Commercial Property Services.

Barr Ellison also provides specialist commercial property services through its team of bright enthusiastic lawyers. Our lawyers have a proper understanding of commercial risk. We think like you because we have years of experience working alongside clients to get deals done.

In residential property we have a vastly experienced team who take the major hassles off clients' hands for all their conveyancing needs.

Family, divorce and wealth protection: Advice and outstanding guidance from experienced, committed family lawyers. Our specialist family solicitors deal exclusively with all aspects of family law. We have outstanding knowledge in this field with over 50 years combined experience in our team. Our focus is to achieve the best possible outcome for you, providing advice that is comprehensive and effective.

View our Family Law Guides.

Companies and businesses: ‘Among the top law firms in East Anglia for business and corporate services.’ (Business Weekly)

Legal support specialists to owner-managed and corporate business in East Anglia, we provide cost effective solutions for businesses. Our clients range from start-ups to long established companies.

Litigation and dispute resolution: We pursue and defend cases from the County Court to the Court of Appeal, resolving disputes by considering the options with you and guiding you through the process.