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Our specialist team of barristers has been consistently rated as one of the leading chambers specialising in personal injury law. We have a long-established reputation for dealing with all types of accident and disease cases, from the simplest traumas to 'unparalleled expertise in certain niche areas', including spinal cord and brain injury’ (Personal Injury, Legal 500).
Clients instruct us for our significant expertise, our reputation for excellence, and our professional but friendly approach. The team, which includes three King's Counsel, is large enough to offer in depth expertise at all levels, while providing a personal and sensitive approach to clients and families. The advice and representation we provide is clear, practical and delivered in a way that is down-to-earth and easy to understand.
The expertise of our members has been consistently recognised by Chambers UK and Legal 500, who both consider Devereux to be a leading personal injury set:
"Devereux houses "a range of junior and leading counsel who are able to grasp complex issues" and offers expertise spanning a wide range of personal injury matters." - Chambers & Partners, 2025
"Members are well regarded for their handling of claims involving injuries of the utmost severity, including high-value catastrophic and psychiatric injury claims, as well as those concerning amputations and major organ damage." - Chambers & Partners, 2025
"Devereux Chambers‘s personal injury offering is composed of ’very experienced, tactically astute PI barristers’, predominately handling high-value and sophisticated disputes involving maximum severity brain, spinal and orthopaedic injuries" - Legal 500, 2025
Whilst our reputation is built on high-value catastrophic work, our senior and junior barristers offer a broad range of experience covering the full range of claims, including:
- Road Traffic Accident claims (the entire gamut, including LVI, fraud, credit hire)
- Serious Injury claims (including Neurotrauma and Spinal Injury)
- Employers’ Liability claims
- Public Liability claims
- Disease litigation (particularly asbestos related disease)
- Accidents Abroad & International Travel claims
- Psychiatric injury claims
- Health & Safety prosecutions
- Inquests
- Military claims
- Civil actions against the police.
Our members are regularly instructed to appear on novel and difficult cases raising novel points of law. We have considerable expertise in settling cases at joint settlement meetings and mediations, but first and foremost we are litigators and advocates. We are recognised for our excellence in trial advocacy on both liability and quantum issues and our strategic advice on how to get the best result for our clients and their families.
Several of our members are on the Spinal Injuries Association’s approved list of personal injury and catastrophic injury barristers.
Our members contribute to specialist publications such as PIBULJ, JPIL and PILJ and give lectures and seminars both externally and as part of our own continuing education programme.
Much of our work for claimants is undertaken on a conditional fee basis.
Barristers with this Expertise
- Robert Glancy KC
- Stephen Killalea KC
- Robert Weir KC
- Richard Royle
- Colin Mendoza
- Christopher Walker
- Peter Edwards
- Richard Cartwright
- Stephen Cottrell
- Rob Hunter
- Jonathan Butters
- Laura Bell
- Matthew Sellwood
- John Platts-Mills
- Harry Sheehan
- Hitesh Dhorajiwala
- Charlie Hill
- Thomas Westwell
- Matthew Bignell
- Aparajita Arya
- Alice Defriend
- Josh Neaman
