Crown Office Chambers

Jamie Clarke has more than 20 years’ experience in his core practice areas of catastrophic / utmost severity personal injury litigation, industrial disease (including asbestos, NIHL, HAVS, workplace cancers), workplace stress, clinical negligence and professional negligence disputes arising out of those areas of practice. In recent years Jamie has become increasingly recognised for in ‘abuse’/neglect claims, including historical sexual abuse claims involving schools and celebrities and contemporaneous cases of neglect in regulated care / nursing homes.

He complements his core practice areas with acknowledged expertise in related areas such as costs, inquests and coverage / indemnity disputes. Jamie has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of the conduct of injury and disease litigation, such as costs budgeting, limitation, experts’ disputes, withdrawal of admissions, disclosure/inspection, deployment of surveillance material and settling counter schedules.

Jamie has successfully secured “fundamental dishonesty” rulings at trial, leading to enforceable adverse costs orders. He also has experience of obtaining enforceable wasted costs orders following strike out.

Jamie has a reputation as a highly effective and determined trial advocate, with a strong work ethic and focus on providing his clients with an enhanced level of service. Jamie gained recognition in the Legal 500 2019, who remarked that he is ‘reliable, thorough and forensic counsel who can see the bigger picture’. In 2021, the Legal 500 reported “Jamie is annoyingly good as an opponent. Confident, assured and very reliable. He is always very well prepared and enthusiastic about his instructions.”

In recent years, Jamie has enjoyed a very high success rate at trial as well as securing highly favourable outcomes for his clients in settlement meetings and mediations, as well as at early stage interim hearings. Clients have remarked on Jamie’s technical and tactical insight, balanced with an accessible and determined approach. Jamie welcomes the opportunity to be involved from the earliest possible stages of a claim in order to provide strategic advice tailored to his clients’ particular commercial and personal objectives.

In April 2020 Jamie was amongst the pioneers of remote trials, bringing in a multi-day trial via Skype below insurers’ low, historic Part 36 offer. Throughout the lockdown, Jamie has been consistently busy with remote hearings, including trials, and remote ADR meetings.

Council Member (Board Director), Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales

Panel Reviewer for Advocate, the pro bono charity of the Bar

Advocacy trainer, Gray’s Inn

Former elected member Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee

Personal Injuries Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, British Insurance Law Association, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association

MA(Hons) Jurisprudence, Christ Church, Oxford (1994)