Tamar Burton

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.