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Marcus Grant

Position

Marcus is ranked as a ‘Star Individual’ Personal Injury Junior Barrister in Chambers & Partners (London) 2020 and was ranked as the only ‘Star Individual’ Personal Injury Junior Barrister in Chambers & Partners (London) in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He was named Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year in Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2016 and was nominated as the 2017 Legal 500 Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year.

His specialism is head injury, chronic pain and spinal litigation. He is noted for his leadership in exploring recent neurological and chronic pain developments in the Courts and is regarded for his insight into the nuances of the medicine and his tenacity in handling medical experts in his specialist areas. He is noted too for taking a lead in the thorny issue of recording of medicolegal assessments and appeared in the lead cases of Macdonald (By His Litigation Friend Lindsay Macdonald) v Burton [2020] EWHC 906 (QB) and Mustard v. Flower & Others [2019] EWHC 2623 (QB).

Career

Called 1993; Lincoln’s Inn. Published in ‘The Times’ law section (credit hire), ‘Personal Injury Law Journal’ (fighting motor fraud) and ‘British Pain Society Journal’; Presented 7 PIBA lectures to peers; He takes on cases for Advocate, The Pro Bono Charity for the Bar. He is a member of Lincoln’s Inn and teaches on the Inn’s New Practitioners Advocacy Training Programme. He has mentored 12 pupils through Temple Garden Chambers.

Languages

Spanish

Memberships

CEDR accredited mediator; PIBA; APIL

Education

BA in Economics and Accountancy at Reading University – won the Arthur Andersen Accountancy Prize; Diploma in Law at University of Westminster; Sir Thomas More and Hardwicke Scholar at Lincoln’s Inn.

Leisure

Family, Andalucía, Headway, Glass Door, the Athenaeum, Rachmaninov, Liverpool FC.

Mentions

London Bar

Personal injury

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Marcus Grant –Temple Garden Chambers ‘Marcus is extremely hardworking and really understands the medical evidence. He is very thorough and presents well thought out arguments at court.’