High-Value Personal Injury

For many years members of Ropewalk Chambers have acted for the major Employer’s Liability and Public Liability insurers, self insured companies and public authorities in claims involving suspected exaggeration or fraud, both in regard to injury and alleged financial losses.

Leading and junior members are noted for their defence work in chronic pain cases, fibromyalgia claims, back injury and cases of alleged malingering and illness deception behaviour.

Recent professional experience of members of Chambers includes the leading video surveillance case of Jones -v- University of Warwick; numerous “failed business” post whiplash injuries; “electricity phobia” and "epilepsy" cases.

Motor Insurance Work

There is strength in depth within Chambers for dealing with cases regarding suspected and on occasion almost certain, fraudulent claims, including phantom passengers; switched drivers; fictitious accidents; grossly exaggerated injuries out of all proportion to the extent of the impact; low velocity impact claims; all aspects of MIB defence work and defences of illegality.

Insurance and Commercial Fraud

Commercial litigation specialists within Chambers frequently deal with claims turning on the effects of exaggeration in claims made under an insurance policy; complex commercial litigation concerning fraudulent dealings / insurance agents / personal injury claims / CFA’s; large cases on employee fraud / conspiracy / theft / forgery etc., receivership and insolvency; asset tracing and civil recovery; the obtaining of freezing orders and related injunctions and all relevant aspects of High Court practice and procedure, including the securing of computer records.

“Across the board, the quality of barristers at this set is excellent” – Legal 500.