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Tamar Burton

Tamar Burton

Cloisters, London

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.

Mentions

London Bar

Clinical negligence

Leading junior3
Tamar Burton – Cloisters ‘Excellent junior counsel with exceptional attention to detail and impressive advocacy.’
London Bar

Personal injury

Leading junior4
Tamar 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.’