Chesca Lord

Clinical negligence-claimant; employment; personal injury-claimant.

Barrister specialising in employment and discrimination, personal injury, and clinical negligence. Chesca regularly advises and acts in all areas of employment and equality law, including unfair dismissal, redundancy, contractual issues, whistleblowing and TUPE. She has particular experience in complex multi-day discrimination Employment Tribunal hearings across the full range of protected characteristics, and is developing her appellate practice. She is also noted for her expertise in holiday pay, having provided training and/or advice on this rapidly developing area of law to solicitors, individuals and companies (ranging from SMEs to public bodies and major retailers). In her personal injury and clinical negligence practice, Chesca has a particular interest in contested quantum-only cases of the utmost severity. She is regularly instructed to draft complex multi-million pound schedules of loss involving large numbers of expert disciplines. Recent cases in which she has acted as a junior include: a two-week quantum trial resulting in one of the largest reported settlements for an above-knee amputee; numerous birth negligence cases, including obtaining a £1.2m interim payment to enable a property purchase; and a stress at work claim pleaded in excess of £30m. The crossover between Chesca’s areas of expertise is especially valuable in personal injury claims arising in the workplace, in particular her alertness to potential disability discrimination and stress at work issues.

Oakham School; Oxford University (2009 BA History); City University (2010 GDL, 2011 BPTC); Salamanca University.