Chris Smith

Personal Injury

Partner

Chris joined Stewarts in 2014 and acts in complex and high-value personal injury cases for children and adults. Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Chris was called to the Bar in 2008.

Chris deals with cases involving a wide range of catastrophic injuries including spinal injury, brain injury and amputation and limb loss arising from complex road traffic accidents, accidents at work and public liability claims.

Since joining Stewarts, Chris has recovered damages in excess of £70m for his clients.

Recent settlements include:

a settlement on behalf of a protected party who sustained a catastrophic brain injury in a road traffic accident, valued on a conventional lump sum basis at just over £9.5m with the Financial Services Compensation Scheme as the de facto defendant a settlement on behalf of a 19-year-old man who was injured in a road traffic accident in 2014 and rendered tetraplegic. This claim was valued on a conventional lump sum basis at just over £16.25m