2024 Personal Injury Conference (Hybrid)

Louis Browne KC has a wide ranging civil practice with particular emphasis in catastrophic personal injury claims, inquests and inquiries, public law and media law. He appears regularly in the Higher Courts. His personal injury practice focuses on cases of the utmost severity, and cases dealing with complex medical causation.  He represents both claimants and defendants. Louis has considerable expertise in all areas of public law and judicial review. He frequently acts on behalf of both claimants and defendants in the Administrative Court. His particular areas of specialism are human rights-based challenges in the context of community care and mental health. He is ranked as a Leading/Tier 1 Silk by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 in Personal Injury, Inquests and Inquiries, Administrative and Public Law and IT, Telecoms and Data Protection.

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Ian Huffer is a senior Personal Injury specialist. 1979 call. He often represents Claimants on road traffic accident claims, particularly motor cycle, bicycle accidents, off road vehicles and claims against MIB, accidents involving pedestrians, multiple vehicle accidents, fatal accidents and accidents resulting in catastrophic head and spinal injuries and injuries causing chronic pain.

John Meehan is an experienced costs practitioner, with a busy costs and litigation funding practice. Prior to coming to the Bar, John worked in an award-winning international law firm as a Solicitor-Advocate practising exclusively in Costs. As a former Solicitor with almost a decade of experience, John is tactically astute and prides himself on providing practical and commercially focused advice. John has substantial experience of representing receiving and paying parties at detailed assessments including in high value, complex and multi-party assessments. He appears frequently before Masters of the Senior Court Costs Office, Regional Costs Judge and in the Appellate Courts. He prides himself on meticulous preparation and attention to detail. John has detailed and practical knowledge of fixed Costs and is regularly sought out by clients to argue technical Costs issues arising out of such claims. He has developed a busy solicitor and own client practice with a particular focus on assisting Solicitor’s firms faced with challenges from former clients. Following the increase in such challenges, John has been heavily involved in assisting firms to update their funding arrangements and strengthen their business practices. As a regular contributor to the legal press, John has written for LexisNexis and Litigation Funding magazine.

Colm Nugent is a specialist barrister in the fields of personal injury and related insurance issues. He is also instructed in a variety of disputes outside these core fields including difficult interlocutory applications, having lectured extensively on the CPR and related costs issues.  He is listed in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading individual. Colm acts for both Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of injury and related disputes with a particular focus on lower limb injuries, subtle brain injury (especially those leading to an increased risk of dementia), complex loss of earnings claims, hand injuries and long-term loss claims as well as fatalities. Colm is also an accredited ADR Group Mediator.

Jon Radford became Head of Intelligence, Investigations & Data Services for the Insurance Fraud Bureau in Jan 2023 and is responsible for the day to day running of the IFB’s teams across all departments executing delivery of services to all of its members and the wider insurance industry. Prior to his role at the IFB, Jon joined QBE in 2007 and in 2012 joined the then newly created SIU team where he was responsible for handling complex fraudulent claims and implementing new fraud strategies to the UK Property, Casualty and Motor divisions. Jon handled QBE’s very first custodial sentence claim via IFED and ran QBE’s first tort of deceit and exemplary damages court action against an organised crime group. In 2016, Jon seconded to QBE’s Australian Operation in Sydney to set up their claim’s fraud team and future fraud strategy which led to the beginnings of a more joined up global fraud strategy. Jon became Head of Claims Fraud for QBE European Operations in 2017 and was responsible for fraud strategy management for all lines of business across all of QBE’s European and Asian territories. Jon who has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance fraud environment began his career at Equity Redstar in 1999.  Jon has amassed a wealth of industry knowledge across all classes of business from many different global territories as well as and representing different organisations on various industry committees delivering work that has helped support and benefit the whole insurance industry.

Matthew Stockwell specialises in serious injury litigation (both trauma and clinical negligence) and health and welfare related aspects of public law, especially mental capacity. His work at Exchange Chambers involves a challenging mix of high value, sensitivity and complexity. He is recognised for his technical expertise and advocacy skills, combined with a strong work ethic and empathy with clients. President of APIL in 2013, Matthew served on APIL’s Executive Committee between 2007 and 2015. As a founding contributor and steering committee member, Matthew continues to promote rehabilitation and collaborative working under the Serious Injury Guide. He lectures and writes regularly in his core areas of expertise, sharing his specialist knowledge and experience of paediatric and adult neurological injury.

Dominic Woodhouse is the National Training Manager at Partners in Cots and has specialised in costs law since 2002, with a particular focus on high-value complex clinical negligence actions, industrial disease and all forms of employer’s liability. Though based in the North of England, Dominic has attended costs hearings across the length and breadth of the country, and since 2013 increasingly appearing at the High Court in London as demand for specialist attendance at Costs Case Management Conferences has grown. Dominic has a broad perspective on costs issues having represented a number of Claimant and Defendant practices over the years, and with a keen eye for detail, is a well-regarded educator in the ever-evolving costs industry.

Elahe Youshani is the head of the Personal Injury department at 18 St John Street Chambers. Elahe practises in the fields of serious personal injury and clinical negligence, acting for both Claimants and Defendants, on claims which include serious injury, complex medical evidence and high injury awards. She has consistently been recognised as a Tier 1 leading junior in the Legal 500 and is described as “very thorough and she will take the time to review cases properly and discuss them at length”, ‘She’s very good, detailed, and easy to approach. She is very able, has great attention to detail and is  knowledgeable.’