Trevor Sterling > Moore Barlow > Richmond, England > Lawyer Profile

Moore Barlow
Frameworks
2 Sheen Road
Richmond
TW9 1AE
England

Work Department

Major trauma

Position

Trevor handles a wide range of personal injury claims related to health and social care cases, and has considerable experience managing inquests and inquiries. With over thirty years’ experience in the legal profession, his clients are those who have suffered serious injury or disability through no fault of their own.

Trevor helps clients with a wide range of personal injury claims and has a special interest in major trauma cases, particularly brain injury, spinal injury and amputations. He has considerable experience handling inquests and inquiries and was commended by Chambers UK guide for having a “significant reputation” as an “extremely polished performer” offering “high levels of expertise”.

He has been involved in a number of serious and highly publicised investigations that have had substantial national significance. In 2008, he received the Bar and Law Society’s ‘Rising Star: Advocate In The Face Of Adversity’ award following success in a landmark employer’s liability suicide, heard in the House of Lords. He also has significant media experience having featured in the print press and on TV, with appearances most notably on BBC Newsnight and Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Trevor joined Moore Blatch in 2015 as a partner, and his work takes him across all of the firm’s offices in order to build relationships with health and social care providers in and around London and the South.

Memberships

Ex-region secretary for Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Trustee of Headway South West London
Currently on the International Underwriting Association of London Rehabilitation Committee, undertaking a review of the Rehabilitation Code

Lawyer Rankings

London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant

Described as a ‘go-to firm’ for personal injury litigation, Moore Barlow continues to advise on high-value catastrophic injury litigation, especially traffic accidents, spinal cord and pediatric cognitive injuries, as well as cross-border disputes in Europe and elsewhere. Acting for both domestic and international claimants, Damian Horan is noted for his ‘practical and effective approach’, bringing to bear his medical background and expertise in spinal cord and brain injury cases. Co-heading the team with Horan, Trevor Sterling has over 35 years’ experience in personal injury disputes, especially those requiring expertise in major traffic accidents. Matthew Claxson often advises on amputation claims, fatal claims, and orthopaedic injury claims, while Fadwa Errhioui regularly handles pediatric brain injury cases, and works closely with the Child Brain Injury Trust. In addition Amandeep Khasriya is commended for her ‘technical and tactical nous.’

South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant

Spread across Southampton, Richmond, Guildford and Woking, Moore Barlow‘s ‘exceptionally well organised, technically capable and astute’ practice handles the full range of serious injury work and fields a distinct major trauma service. In Southampton, Damian Horan regularly handles catastrophic injury claims with jurisdictional issues and Matthew Claxson leads the office’s serious injury team, while Trevor Sterling, who is based in Richmond, is ‘a heavy hitter in the market‘. Emma Potter leads the Guildford and Woking serious injury teams and acts cases involving functional neurological disorders and chronic pain issues, and Helen Goatley in Guildford excels in acquired brain injury litigation.