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Grahame Aldous KC
- Phone020 7832 0500
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence,Travel
Position
Grahame Aldous KC is recommended as a Leader in the Field for Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury and International Claims in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
His cross examination technique has been described in the High Court as ‘a quiet bombshell’, and by an expert witness in the High Court as ‘thorough, effective, but better than that, beautiful’. He is also an Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) Advanced Advocacy Trainer and Advocacy Teacher-Trainer, a Faculty member of the South Eastern Circuit International Advanced Advocacy Course at Keble College, Oxford. He created the first Advocacy Training programme for the Cypriot Bar Association with the ICCA, and has provided training on the rule of law for the National School of Judges in Ukraine.
Grahame is a former Vice-Chair of the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee, edited the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Code, wrote the first Diversity Awareness Training Toolkit for both Deka Chambers and the Bar Council, and has led Diversity training for various chambers, the Bar Council, Inner Temple and the Judicial College. In Grahame’s time as Head of Chambers, Chambers won PI and Clinical Negligence Set of the Year and topped the Black Solicitors Network league table for diversity practices and procedures.
Career
Called 1979, Silk 2008.
Recorder 2000
CEDR Mediator 2006
Head of Chambers 2008-2013
Advocacy Trainer
Memberships
PNBA, PIBA, APIL Fellow.
Education
LLB Hons (Exon) (1978).
Leisure
Ocean sailing. Raced round Cape Horn in 1990 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Sailed Atlantic on tall ship with disabled/able-bodied crew in the Norton Rose Sail the World Challenge, 2013. RYA Yachtmaster.