Personal Injury
Paul Evans is a specialist in Personal Injury. He is a sought after and busy senior junior, with 20+ years of practice and experience in Personal Injury.
Paul has been consistently ranked as a leading junior in the field for over a decade. Paul is currently ranked as a Band 1, Leading Junior in the field by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories.
Paul is instructed by both claimants and defendants, with his current case load covering the full spectrum of the most serious claims, including brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, orthopaedic polytrauma and fatal accidents, arising from road traffic accidents, employers’ and public liability claims.
Paul regularly undertakes cases of several million pounds as sole Counsel, is frequently against Kings Counsel and given his experience, is regularly instructed as a junior to Kings Counsel in highly complex or catastrophic claims, where he undertakes much of the drafting, interlocutory Court hearings and conferences with the full range of expert witnesses.
Paul has a particular interest in cases involving amputations and prosthetics, and as a keen cyclist and former motorcyclist, claims arising from cycling and motorcycling accidents.
Personal Injury Paul has a substantial advisory element to his practice, is regularly instructed for his advice in conference, his drafting skills, Schedules/ Counter Schedules, in addition to undertaking all forms of ADR, including Round Table Settlements, Pathways/ Way Forward meetings, the full range of interlocutory hearings, trials, appeals and inquests.
Paul is extremely accessible, easy to work worth, has a prompt turnaround of work and excellent attention to detail. Paul is very effective in a team, regularly working with Kings Counsel and multiple solicitors in catastrophic claims. Paul utilised paperless working, technology and e-bundles long before Covid-19 and is happy undertaking all forms of remote hearings and ADR.
Costs formed a large part of Paul’s early practice and with CCMHs being so fundamental to the effective running of catastrophic claims, Paul is frequently instructed to advise on case planning and budgets. Paul is happy to attend CCMHs without a separate costs draftsperson.
Costs formed a large part of Paul’s early practice and with CCMHs being so fundamental to the effective running of catastrophic claims, Paul is frequently instructed to advise on case planning and budgets. Paul is happy to attend CCMHs without a separate costs draftsperson.
Paul has extensive experience across the full range of issues in complex and high value claims, including:
Rehabilitation Code and the Serious Injury Full Care and Case Management packages Capacity Accommodation claims Substantial loss of earnings, including for the self employed Elective amputation Prosthetics Assistive Technology Provisional Damages Statutory Funding Periodical Payments Pain conditionsCatastrophic Injury Paul has a substantial advisory element to his practice, is regularly instructed for his advice in conference, his drafting skills, Schedules/ Counter Schedules, in addition to undertaking all forms of ADR, including Round Table Settlements, Pathways/ Way Forward meetings, the full range of interlocutory hearings, trials, appeals and inquests.Paul is extremely accessible, easy to work worth, has a prompt turnaround of work and excellent attention to detail. Paul is very effective in a team, regularly working with Kings Counsel and multiple solicitors in catastrophic claims. Paul utilised paperless working, technology and e-bundles long before Covid-19 and is happy undertaking all forms of remote hearings and ADR.
Costs formed a large part of Paul’s early practice and with CCMHs being so fundamental to the effective running of catastrophic claims, Paul is frequently instructed to advise on case planning and budgets. Paul is happy to attend CCMHs without a separate costs draftsperson.
Paul has extensive experience across the full range of issues in complex and high value claims, including:
The Rehabilitation Code and the Serious Injury Guide Full Care and Case Management packages Capacity Accommodation claims Substantial loss of earnings, including for the self employed Elective amputation Prosthetics Assistive Technology Provisional Damages Statutory Funding Periodical Payments Pain conditionsMediation Paul qualified as an Accredited Mediator following a 5 day facilitative mediator training with the London School of Mediation in 2011 and is happy to undertake mediations across the range of personal injury cases.
Paul read Biology at Kings College, University of London, before being called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2001. Having undertaken a common law pupillage at No5 Chambers, Paul had a mixed practice, including Crime before specialising in Personal Injury.
Paul has been ranked as a Leading Junior in the directories for Personal Injury consecutively for the last 9 years.
Personal Injury Bar Association
King’s College London BSc. Biology (First Class Honours)
Nottingham Post Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation)
Inns of Court School of Law Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent)