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Tamar Burton
Position
Tamar specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury, inquests, employment and discrimination work. She exclusively acts for claimants in her clinical negligence, inquests and personal injury work.
Tamar was appointed as junior counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry, chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff. Within the Inquiry, she has a particular focus on the impact of blood-borne viruses on infected people and their families.
Tamar specialises in the assessment of damages and is currently the Assistant Secretary to the Ogden Working Party. In clinical negligence and personal injury claims, she is regularly instructed to draft complex, multi-million pound schedules of loss. She has experience of contested High Court liability and quantum trials, both on a led and unled basis. She is also a co-author of chapter on personal injury in Bullen & Leake.
She has an interest in informed consent and co-authored the chapter on consent in Lewis & Buchan A Practical Guide. She is regularly instructed to draft pleadings, for conferences with experts and for procedural applications in front of the QBD Masters, in addition to RTMs and trials.
Career
Called 2012; Middle Temple; Diplock Scholar, 2011 and 2012.
Assistant Secretary to the Ogden Working Party.
Junior Counsel, Infected Blood Inquiry.
Memberships
AvMA; Personal Injury Bar Association; Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Tamar Burton – Cloisters ‘Tamar is a smart negotiator, and is very impressive. During a round table meeting she deals with particularly emotional clients in an unusual situations with tact and sympathy whilst remaining rock solid in her negotiations. She develops a clear tactical strategy and deploys it to brilliant effect.’
Cloisters‘ personal injury offering is highlighted for its ‘strength in depth’, and operates in a range of personal injury claims that straddle both maximum severity injuries, including brain, polytraumatic and chronic pain injuries, and psychiatric injuries, along with abuse claims. William Latimer-Sayer KC is a leading practitioner of the area, overseeing disputes over injuries with quantum into eight figures, typically involving maximum severity injuries resulting in serious disabilities. Tamar Burton works closely with senior practitioners in the set, and operates in both serious physical injury litigation, and psychiatric injuries stemming from trauma or abuse.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tamar Burton – Cloisters ‘Excellent junior counsel with exceptional attention to detail and impressive advocacy.’