Byrom Street Chambers

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Peter Burns KC

Peter Burns KC

Byrom Street Chambers, North West

Position

Peter specialises in catastrophic injury claims, with particular expertise in brain injury, spinal injury and amputation cases. He has extensive experience of claims involving complex issues of causation, including intervening clinical negligence. He is regularly instructed in high value fatal accident cases, particularly those involving care as a services dependency. Occupiers' liability is an area of special interest.

Peter acts both for defendants and claimants.

Career

Called 1993. King's Counsel 2019. Postmaster at Merton College, Oxford.

Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association.

Education

Manchester Grammar School; Merton College, Oxford (BA 1st class, scholar); College of Law, Chancery Lane; Inns of Court School of Law; Inner Temple Pegasus Scholar to the USA.

Mentions

Northern Circuit • Regional Bar

Personal injury

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Peter Burns KC – Byrom Street Chambers ‘Peter makes navigating the most complex cases seem easy. His pleadings are always impressive and his advocacy is first rate, he is extremely intelligent, always on top of the detail and, whilst the epitome of calm, is able to read the room and deliver the submissions that really matter.'

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