North Eastern Circuit • Regional Bar
Personal injury
Leading junior2Robert Smith – St Paul’s Chambers
Robert Smith practises in the field of personal injury and medical negligence.
He acts for Claimants and Defendants in road traffic work. He holds a specialist interest in Employers’ Liability. He also undertakes work in public liability and disease litigation. Robert has undertaken work in a wide range of clinical negligence cases, including claims against hospital trusts for negligent obstetric treatment at childbirth and failure to diagnose in orthopaedic treatment. He has successfully defended actions brought against physiotherapists for alleged negligent treatment.
Robert regularly acts in cases involving very significant injury, including brain injury, both individually and being led.