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

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • '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.'

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