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Barristers

Georgina Cursham

Ropewalk Chambers, East Midlands

Work Department

Animals and Equine, Serious Injury, Clinical Negligence, Inquests, Wills, Probate, Inheritance.

Career

Called 2007; appointed to the Attorney General’s Regional Panel of Counsel to the Crown 2012; prior to coming to the Bar, she worked for the Legal Services Commission, before travelling extensively and teaching English in Russia and China. She returned to the UK to manage a four-star hotel in Central London.

Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association; Housing Law Practitioners’ Association.

Position

Georgina is a top-ranked leading junior in the Legal 500 directory for personal injury and inquest work, as well as having been recommended in Chambers & Partners Guide for Personal Injury every year for the last 7 years.

She has a wide-ranging personal injury and clinical negligence practice, with a particular focus on catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims. She is esteemed for her specialist expertise in personal injury claims involving the Animals Act, as well as equine contractual disputes.

She knows her way around the Coroner’s Courts, with extensive experience in Article 2 jury inquests arising from deaths in custody, as well as inquests into deaths arising from suspected failures in diagnosis and medical treatment.

Education

Nottingham Trent University (LLB Hons 1st Class); Pembroke College, Oxford (MA Modern Languages); awarded a major scholarship from Gray’s Inn for the CPE year; achieved the Nottingham Law School Prize for the highest overall result on the Graduate Diploma in Law, followed by the Taylor Prize for best overall performance on the Bar Vocational Course at Nottingham Law School.

Mentions

Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Inquests and inquiries

LEADING JUNIORS1
Georgina Cursham –Ropewalk Chambers ‘Georgina is a very strong all-round barrister. She is very thorough in her review and preparation of a case. In court or an inquest, she is not fazed by the complexity of a matter and stays calm even in difficult and challenging circumstances.’  
Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Personal injury

LEADING JUNIORS1
Georgina Cursham –Ropewalk Chambers ‘Georgina is excellent with clients. Her attention to detail is second-to-none. She is very good on her feet with thorough preparation.’