9 St John Street
Barristers
Christopher Kennedy
- Phone0161 955 9000
- Email[email protected]
Position
Chris has very wide experience of personal injury litigation including all types of employer’s liability, public liability, serious road traffic accident and industrial disease cases. He is used to dealing with the type of issues relating to quantum generating by someone suffering catastrophic injury. He has considerable experience in multi-party actions for both claimants and defendants. Chris has particular expertise in cases involving psychogenic pain and in the conduct of defence work in potentially fraudulent claims. He receives instructions from a number of insurers in these sensitive fields. He successfully represented two major insurers in the first contested action to recover damages from those behind a fraud ‘ring’. Chris’ clinical negligence practice includes litigating a wide variety of issues including the management of psychiatric and other vulnerable patients, birth-related defects, administration of drugs and informed consent. He is skilled at providing guidance on expert evidence in such cases.