Outer Temple Chambers

Travel law, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Commercial and Chancery

Barrister specialising in Travel law, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Commercial and Chancery.

Daniel Clarke was called to the bar in 2005.

Dan Clarke practises in personal injury.

He has a particular specialism in cases with an international element, including claims raising conflicts and jurisdictional issues. He was junior counsel in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in the leading case of Brownlie (No. 2). He is ranked as a Tier 1 leading junior for Travel Law in the Legal 500 and a leading junior in Chambers & Partners. He also has experience of acting in claims in other jurisdictions, including in the Privy Council and in Jersey.

He undertakes clinical negligence work for both claimants and defendants and receives regular instructions from NHS Trusts. His clinical negligence work includes birth injury, spinal cord injury, fatal claims, claims concerning consent to treatment following the Montgomery decision and psychiatric injuries (especially secondary victim claims).

He has recently acted in a claim concerning a young woman who had to have bilateral above knee amputations and bilateral amputations of her fingers following sepsis and in a claim on behalf of a man in his 50s rendered tetraplegic by an undiagnosed and untreated spinal abscess. He has acted in a number of claims involving negligently performed breast surgery.

He also appears at medical inquests, representing both families and NHS trusts.

His practice also includes industrial disease, claims for historic sex abuse (including group actions), RTAs, and employers’ liability.

His broader personal injury practice encompasses catastrophic injury, road traffic, employer’s liability, and historic sexual abuse claims. Dan is recommended in Legal 500 for his expertise in personal injury.

He frequently writes and speaks on personal injury topics. He is a contributor to the APIL Guide to Accidents Abroad, a comprehensive practitioners’ text on all aspects of personal injury and illness claims with an international element. He has written for the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management. He is often invited to speak on legal topics in personal injury law. He has spoken at the APIL Accidents Abroad Conference.

He is a CEDR accredited mediator.

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Accredited Mediator, CEDR PEOPIL EAPIL PIBA APIL JA, Court of Appeal (2008) Tutor in Criminal Law, UCL (2004/5) Research Assistant, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (2004/5) Research Assistant, Law Commission (2002/3)