Barristers

Paul Kirtley

Paul Kirtley

Exchange Chambers, Yorkshire And The Humber

Work Department

Employment; Personal Injury; Clinical Negligence; Regulatory; Mediation

Position

Paul is considered one of the leading civil practitioners on the North Eastern Circuit.

His expansive practice covers a wide range of areas including:

  • Personal injury and clinical negligence – highly experienced in complex, high value injury claims – particularly traumatic brain injury, amputee and chronic pain claims.
  • Employment – regularly appears on behalf of clients in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Civil Courts.
  • Regulatory – his practice covers a number of sectors, including police, fire, healthcare, sport and local authority.  He is one of a select group of barristers who is instructed on behalf of the Police Federation to represent its members.
  • Mediation – Paul is an accredited civil and commercial and workplace mediator. He regularly mediates in a wide range of disputes, including commercial; employment including race and sex discrimination; public sector; solicitors and valuers’ negligence claims; medical negligence and personal injury claims.

Career

Called 1982; Recorder (1998); Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004).

Memberships

The Professional Mediators’ Association Personal Injury Bar Association Employment Law Bar Association Professional Negligence Bar Association Employment Lawyers Association Industrial Law Society

Education

MA (Cantab). Downing College, Cambridge Recorder (1999) sitting in civil, crime and private family work Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator (2004) Accredited Workplace Mediator (2014)

Leisure

Paul is a classic car enthusiast, holds an International Rally Drivers Licence and both a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence and PSV licence. He also enjoys hill walking and skiing, notwithstanding his knee replacement operation! He is the former Chair of a national children’s charity ‘Dreams Come True’.

Mentions