Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
James Rowley KC represents both sides in high value/complex Personal Injuries and Clinical Negligence litigation. An expert in the case law associated with quantifying damages, he is an Evaluative/Expert Mediator in these practice areas and a CMC Registered Associate Mediator
Publications
Serious Personal Injury Litigation - Quantum Updated to 2024. A PIBA Guide to Pension Loss Calculation (2020). Chapters on claims for Care and Loss of Pension in Facts & Figures.
Reported cases
Personal injuries: Hammond v Gibbon [2023] EWHC 2550 (KB); Moreira v Moran and others [2021] EWHC 1800 (CA); Faisal v Younis and Active Brands [2018] EWHC 1111 (QB); Dunhill v Burgin (Nos 1 and 2) [2014] 1 WLR 933, UKSC 18; Scott and Evans v Griffiths QBD Lawtel 29/01/14; Dixie v. British Polythene Industries PLC [2010] EWCA Civ 1170; Threlfall v. Hull City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1147; Stanley v Bryn Close t/a Armthorpe Moto Parc [2009] EWHC 2849 (QB); Jebson v MOD [2000] 1 W.L.R. 2055. Clinical Negligence: Beech v Timney [2013] EWHC 2345 (QB); Spencer v NHS North West [2012] EWHC 2142 (QB); Parkes v Mann [2011] EWHC 1724 (QB).
MA (Classics) Cantab.; Dip. Law; Stonyhurst and Emmanuel. Called 1987. Counsel to the Royal Liverpool Children's Inquiry (2000). Recorder (2002-15). Silk (2006). Editor of Facts & Figures (2021-). Mediator (2023-).
PIBA (Chair 2010-12); PNBA; Civil Mediation Council; London School of Mediation.
Stonyhurst and Emmanuel College Cambridge (BA (1985); MA (1990) Classics); Diploma in Law (1986).
Married with three grown up children. High Legh CC, armchair sportsman, gardener and cook.