William Latimer-Sayer KC
Cloisters ‘Excellent eye for detail and a very good manner with clients. He is incredibly approachable, hugely bright and highly knowledgeable.'
Cloisters‘ personal injury offering is highlighted for its ’strength in depth’, and operates in a range of personal injury claims that straddle both maximum severity injuries, including brain, polytraumatic and chronic pain injuries, and psychiatric injuries, along with abuse claims. William Latimer-Sayer KC is a leading practitioner of the area, overseeing disputes over injuries with quantum into eight figures, typically involving maximum severity injuries resulting in serious disabilities. Tamar Burton works closely with senior practitioners in the set, and operates in both serious physical injury litigation, and psychiatric injuries stemming from trauma or abuse.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
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- 'Cloisters are a class outfit'
- 'Clerks are very good and responsive. Quick to respond and provide excellent service.'
- 'A very strong set for maximum value clinical negligence and personal injury work. The set is clearly a strong team, who value one another. In particular, it's clear that senior KCs support women going and returning from maternity leave, which is really important. '
- 'Excellent, pro-active, helpful and sensible and pragmatic in relation to fees and counsel availability'
- 'A top personal injury and employment set. The expertise in both is very helpful for cross-over work (eg discrimination and stress).'
- 'Cloisters is a safe pair of hands for complex high value clinical negligence and personal injury claims. Their barristers are very in demand but always offer a bespoke and focused service.'
Silks
Leading Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Joel Donovan KC
Cloisters ‘Joel is a hugely personable experienced barrister. He is clear and well liked and trusted by clients.’
Juniors
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Daniel Lawson
Cloisters
Tamar Burton
Cloisters ‘Tamar is a smart negotiator, and is very impressive. During a round table meeting she deals with particularly emotional clients in an unusual situations with tact and sympathy whilst remaining rock solid in her negotiations. She develops a clear tactical strategy and deploys it to brilliant effect.’
Andrew Buchan
Cloisters ‘Andrew is highly experience, especially in the field of occupational stress. He is technically excellent and willing to push boundaries, taking on cases that are very difficult.’
Chesca Lord
Cloisters ‘She is superb on quantum issues. Her eye for detail and ability to marshal large quantities of detailed information and evidence is exceptional. Her schedules are top drawer. Excellent judgement when it comes to valuations. ‘