Unity Street Chambers

Toby Halliwell, Fergus Currie, Edward Counsell and Iain Wightwick are qualified to advise and act for members of the public directly under the Bar Council Public Access scheme.

Unity Street Chambers

Members of Chambers are pleased to welcome Lucy Clayton, after her successful completion of pupillage, and Amanda Rhodes as new tenants.

practice - personal injury

Personal Injury Team











Accident, Injury & Disease has been a key area of chambers' practice for many years. Unity Street is recommended as a leading Personal Injury set and many members are individually recognised as experts in their field.

The group's specialisms include public, employer's and road traffic liability and all aspects of the law relating to personal injury, both physical and psychiatric.

Members specific expertise includes the following: 

Child abuse: claims against care homes, local authorities, religious orders and the Home Office for physical and sexual abuse.

Criminal injuries: applications to the CICA and appeals to the CICAP.

Employers’ liability: the “6-pack”, all other statutory duties and unsafe systems as well as vicarious liability for the acts of employees.

Industrial disease: asbestos-induced and all other occupational respiratory diseases, noise induced deafness, toxic and hazardous substances, dysphonia, dermatitis, repetitive strain injuries and hand-arm vibration syndrome.

Inquests: at all levels, from the fully argued, jury and Coroner hearings to Coroner-only hearings

Occupiers’ liability: slipping and tripping cases on public and private property and unsafe premises litigation generally

Product liability: food poisoning, defective goods, consumer protection.

Public authority: claims against local authority exercising statutory functions as highways authorities, education authorities, social services departments etc.

Public liability: nuisance or other forms of environmental claims

Road traffic: from multiple motorway crash litigation and brain injury cases to “simple” whiplash claims, so-called “low velocity claims” and Motor Insurers Bureau claims.

Sports and leisure accidents.

Accident abroad at sea and in the air including claims under the Package Travel Regulations 1992, the Athens, and Montreal Conventions.

Work is undertaken on behalf of claimants and defendants in the UK and overseas. , and are closely linked to our personal injury work and, where appropriate, we bring to those other areas a thorough understanding of personal injury work.

We have several writers and contributors/contributing editors to leading personal injury publications and textbooks, including Kemp and Kemp on the Quantum of Damages, Current Law, and Sweet & Maxwell Civil Court Precedents.

Members regularly lecture on personal injury topics, both in Chambers and elsewhere (see ).

The team offers a and chambers is shortly to boast a dedicated mediation suite.

Barristers in Unity Street Chambers are licensed to accept personal injury work from the public.


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