Holly Tibbitts

Holly Tibbitts

Personal injury and clinical negligence, Deka Chambers

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 dealing with complex liability issues.

Holly also has expertise in criminal injuries compensation claims.

Education

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

Graduate Diploma in Law, City University;

Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School.

Mentions

London Bar

Clinical negligence

LEADING JUNIORS3

Holly Tibbitts – Deka Chambers ‘Excellent analytical skills - a very good advocate who makes her points succinctly and with real clarity and force.'