Personal Injury & CIvil Fraud

Call 1995

North Eastern Circuit

Peter works exclusively for insurers defending suspicious or fraudulent personal injury claims, usually arising out of actual or alleged road traffic accidents.  This has been his sole area of practice for over a decade. He works for all the major solicitors in his practise area and is involved at each stage of the claims process, from pre-action advice and conference work through to trial advocacy.

eter has extensive experience of the numerous forms of suspicious/fraudulent claims including low speed impact claims, bogus passenger claims, deliberately induced collisions, staged accidents, fabricated accidents and fraud rings.  He often acts for insurers who have withdrawn indemnity from their insurer clients.  Such work frequently involves special damages claims for recovery, storage, hire and rehabilitation charges.

Whilst Peter retains a healthy paperwork practise, recently his workload has been focussed pre-dominantly on trial work.  In relation to his trial preparation, given that very detailed analysis of the evidence is required in order to prepare to the highest standard, Peter usually ensures that at least one full day is booked out of his diary for that purpose.  As a result, he self-limits the number of trials he does to a maximum of 3 per week.

Peter frequently lectures to his instructing solicitors, insurers and others within the industry, on developments within his practise area. He is also an advocacy trainer for the ‘North Eastern Circuit New Practitioners Programme’.  Peter’s abilities in his practise area have been recognised in both ‘The Legal 500’ and ‘Chambers & Partners’ for many years

1993St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, BA (Hons) History, 2:1

1994City University, London, Common Professional Examination

1995Inns Of Court, School of Law, Bar Vocational Course