Megan Griffiths

This is an area of law which Megan is particularly passionate about, having represented survivors of domestic abuse as a paralegal before joining chambers and having made abuse a mainstay of her practice since tenancy. Megan is frequently instructed to draft and advise on issues such as limitation, (vicarious) liability, expert evidence and quantum including for the purposes of settlement negotiations. She was also instructed as Second Junior in an international group action arising from sexual abuse, discrimination and harassment in the workplace amounting to violations of the workers’ human rights.

Megan also has considerable experience advising in failure-to-remove type claims brought at common law and the Human Rights Act 1998. She is well-versed in the parallel jurisdictions and the different considerations required for each.

Megan’s personal injury work spans a wide variety of factual settings including road traffic accidents, injuries sustained at work, on highways and on private property. She regularly deals with liability and quantum issues in court as well as on paper, including fundamental dishonesty. Megan acts for both claimants and defendants and recently carried out an extensive disclosure review with associated advice in a multi-million pound claim as a Junior.

Megan is a member of chambers’ sports law group and sits on the Steering Committee. Whilst she cannot pretend to be much of an athlete herself, she is keen to develop her practice in sports law and to apply her expertise in general personal injury and abuse claims to the same. She has previously been instructed to advise claimants who have suffered amateur sporting injuries in gymnastics and football and was recently involved in industrial disease litigation arising from exposure in sport.

Megan is instructed by claimants and defendants in clinical negligence matters to draft pleadings and advices on liability, quantum and evidence. Recent subjects include ophthalmic treatment, delayed referrals/ diagnoses and provoked DVTs. Megan is able to draw upon her pre-chambers experience as a paralegal in a clinical negligence department to inform her approach to and understanding of clinical negligence litigation.

Megan’s military work to date has been mostly in relation to noise induced hearing loss, but she has also advised in abuse cases involving cadets. Megan is keen to undertake other forms of military work such as claims involving PTSD and/or abuse.

Megan regularly deals with the full range of mitigation issues that arise in relation to credit hire.

Megan is instructed to draft pleadings and advise on industrial disease matters, most commonly in relation to asbestos and noise exposure.

Megan gained in depth experience of complex and high value asbestos claims in her pupillage. Since tenancy she has been instructed to advise on and plead claims for asbestosis and asbestos-related lung cancer resulting from (often historic) asbestos exposure. She has since completed a part-time secondment with a London law firm’s industrial disease team, working directly with clients and closely with solicitors and partners on numerous asbestos-related matters, most of which were mesothelioma claims.

Megan’s noise-induced hearing loss instructions often arise from military exposure although she has also been instructed in claims arising from noise exposure in other settings.