Park Square Barristers

Personal Injury, Civil Fraud and Commercial & Chancery

Personal Injury

Ranked as Tier 1, Leading Junior in The Legal 500 (2025) for Personal Injury.

Fiona has been ranked as a leading junior in The Legal 500 since 2015. She maintains a broad personal injury practice but specialises increasingly in life-changing injury claims at home and abroad. Fiona represents seriously injured claimants, insurance companies, health trusts and local authorities. She is instructed in claims arising out of injury or death at work, in public places as well as serious road traffic accidents (including MIB claims). She is also experienced in dealing with cases involving chronic pain conditions, including Chronic Pain Syndrome, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Somatoform Pain Disorders.

Fiona is known for her thorough preparation, robust cross examination style and her sensitive and sympathetic approach when communicating the issues to clients.

Fiona has a wealth of expertise in representing both Claimants and Defendants in claims under the Package Travel Regulations and is increasingly sought after in high-value, large scale and group claims.

Her forensic attention to detail and unflappable manner mean that she is highly sought after by insurers to act in road traffic claims involving serious allegations of fraud, both in relation to liability and in relation to the injuries suffered. She has successfully represented insurers in committal proceedings relating to fraudulent claims.

She is involved at each stage of the claims process from advisory work, drafting pleadings, schedules of loss and Part 35 questions, attending conferences with clients and experts, through to attending CCMCs, JSMs, trial and approval hearings. Fiona is regularly instructed to advise on and/or represent parties at contentious and substantive applications.

Fiona is currently a contributor to Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service. She regularly throughout the year provides lectures, and occasionally mock trials, to her instructing solicitors, insurers and others within the industry on case law updates and procedural developments. Alongside a full time practice, she taught for many years (from 2005) on the part time BPTC course at BPP Leeds and is a fully qualified advocacy trainer for the North Eastern Circuit.

Public Access

Fiona may accept Public Access work, where she can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Call 2004

Appointments: Freelance lecturer/examiner on the BPTC (BPP College of Professional Studies, Leeds) since 2005

Accredited to teach advocacy by the IATC since 2005.

French

Personal Injury Bar Association (since 2004)Northern Ballet Parents' Association

1999 University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) History (2:1)

2000 University of Cambridge, PG Cert in International Business Practice (First)

2003 The College of Law, PGDip Law (‘very competent’)

2004 Manchester Metropolitan University, BVC (‘very competent’)