Henry Witcomb KC has a practice specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, public authority liability and inquest representation. He has been involved in several of the leading cases in these fields.

A significant amount of the work in both the clinical negligence and personal injury fields has involved participation in several multi-party actions, a number of which have involved claimants residing abroad. Principally these actions have involved the abuse and care of children but also involving other classes of personal injury and clinical negligence claimants.

Call: 1989; KC: 2016; Lincoln’s Inn; 1998-90 legal reform campaigner (initiating legislative proposals and non-legislative reform); freelance legal journalist (publishing in both national and specialist press); tenant at 1 Crown Office Row; former co-opted member of the Bar Council’s Legal Services Committee (civil justice specialist); former member of Lord Woolf’s Enquiry team (Fast Track Working Party); former Law Commission pre-publication consultee (personal injury law reform programme). Accredited CEDR Mediator; Local Authority trained mediator.

PNBA; APIL.

Durham University (BA Hons in Law 2(1)).