Giles Mooney KC

Giles Mooney KC

Personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, Deka Chambers

Work Department

Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence

Position

Giles deals with heavyweight litigation in clinical negligence, professional negligence and personal injury. His personal injury and clinical negligence practice encompasses all aspects of catastrophic injury work, acting mainly, but not exclusively, for claimants.

He has extensive experience of birth injury claims, other brain injury claims and spinal injuries. Giles is equally at home dealing with complex liability issues and quantum awards of the highest level. Giles does a wide variety of personal injury. He has particular interests in claims involving animals, having been involved in 4 Court of Appeal cases concerning the Animals Act 1971, and accidents at sea.

Giles has a growing professional negligence workload acting in claims against solicitors, financial advisors and vets amongst others.

Recent work highlights have included:

Croydon Tram Inquest 2021

Ford v Seymour-Williams [2021] EWCA Civ 1848

ST v BAI (t/a Brittany Ferries) [2022] EWCA Civ 1037

Chadwick v RH Ovenden [2022] EWHC 1701 (QB)

Parry v Johnson [2022] EWHC 89 (QB)

FLR v Chandran [2023] EWHC 1671 (QB)

Education

BA Hons King's College London, Gray's Inn Goldie Scholar (BVC Year).

Mentions

London Bar

Clinical negligence

HALL OF FAME4

Giles Mooney KC – Deka Chambers ‘Giles inspires great confidence on the most difficult of cases. He fights hard on the difficult cases, always has a positive approach and is great with the clients.'

London Bar

Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud

HALL OF FAME3

Giles Mooney KC – Deka Chambers ‘Giles is a natural and confident advocate and exceptionally easy to work with. He is pragmatic and not scared to tackle difficult issues and push for what is best for clients.'