Barristers

Holly Tibbitts

Holly Tibbitts

Work Department

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Position

Holly is a clinical negligence and personal injury specialist.  She is a respected junior practitioner who acts exclusively in multi-track matters, including those involving life-changing and catastrophic injuries.

In her clinical negligence work Holly has gained experience as both sole and junior counsel, including in a current case pleaded at over £20million.  She receives instructions across the full range of clinical negligence cases including birth injuries, surgical negligence, consenting issues, and missed and delayed diagnoses.  She is instructed in a number of cases involving spinal injuries, including negligent spinal surgery and delayed diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome.

Holly also acts in a broad range of personal injury claims, including those involving serious and subtle brain injuries, spinal injuries, complex orthopaedic injuries, serious psychiatric conditions and pain disorders.  She is adept at fatal accidents and lost years claims and has experience of the full range of liability issues, including road traffic accidents, employer's liability and public liability claims, and injuries caused by animals.

Career

Called to the bar in 2010.  Pupillage under Giles Mooney KC and Claire Harden-Frost followed by tenancy at 9 Gough Square, now merged to form Deka Chambers. Contributing author to:  Kemp & Kemp:  Quantum of Damages; Clinical Negligence Claims: A Practical Guide (3rd edition); APIL Guide to RTA Liability (3rd edition); Criminal Injuries Compensation Claims (2nd edition).

Education

MA (Cantab) Archaeology and Anthropology, St John’s College Cambridge (First Class);

Graduate Diploma in Law, City University (Distinction);

Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School (Outstanding).

Leisure

When not running around after her young daughter, Holly enjoys the great outdoors and curling up with a glass of wine and a good book.

Mentions

London Bar

Clinical negligence

Leading junior3
Holly Tibbitts – Deka Chambers ‘Holly is calm and reassuring in conference. She has an excellent eye for detail and not only identifies the issues but finds solutions. Holly never loses sight of the human element of a claim.’ 
London Bar

Personal injury

Leading junior4
Holly Tibbitts – Deka Chambers ‘Holly is a measured and detail orientated barrister. She is thorough and quickly gets to grips with the documentation and issues at hand.’