Members of 12KBW’s Personal Injury Team will be unpicking Compromise, Settlement and Part 36 and providing tips on Avoiding expert(s’) annihilation following Muyepa and Scarcliffe.

A drinks and canapes reception will follow the seminar. Please register for your place via the form below.

This in-person seminar is for personal injury law practitioners and free of charge.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Programme

Time Talk Information
16:00

Registration & Refreshments 

16:30

Compromise, Settlement and Part 36

Andrew Roy KC, Sarah Beslee

17:10

Avoiding expert(s’) annihilation. Tips following Muyepa and Scarcliffe.

Anna Symington

17:40

Drinks and Canapés Reception

Andrew Roy KC

Andrew specialises in complex, sensitive and high value cases involving personal injury (especially catastrophic claims), costs, clinical negligence, industrial disease, professional negligence, limitation and related areas.

Andrew has a significant appellate practice.  He is head of the 12 KBW Costs Team.  He sits as a Deputy Costs Judge of the Senior Courts.

Andrew is ranked as a in both Personal Injury and Costs by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.  They note that he has “A razor-sharp intellect coupled with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the case law, who is able to combine both into dazzling and fearless advocacy” and is "a great choice of counsel when you know you have a fight on your hands”.

The directories further describe Andrew as “a great strategist with an eye for the big picture at all times”, “absolutely first class”, “a ferocious advocate”, “Exceptional” with a “phenomenal grasp of the law” and “an incredibly detailed knowledge of each area in which he specialises”.

As one of only a handful of barristers ranked by the directories in both personal injury and in costs, Andrew brings in-depth crossover expertise to both his personal injury cases and his costs work.  The directories note that in respect to personal injury he is “a strong negotiator and has the added value of real costs expertise. They likewise note that in respect of costs he “draws strength to his practice through his personal injury expertise.”

Andrew is Head of Pupillage at 12KBW.

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Sarah Beslee

Sarah is highly experienced in all aspects of personal injury law, from cases involving complex orthopaedic and psychiatric injuries to cases involving fraud.  She has particular expertise in public authority liability, Animals Act 1971 cases (including equine cases) and credit hire. She regularly acts for Defendants in cases involving fraud / fundamental dishonesty.

Sarah has been a visiting academic tutor at King’s College, London.

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Anna Symington

Anna specialises in high value personal injury claims. Chambers & Partners 2024 say “Anna is superb, a great advocate with a no-nonsense approach."

Anna acts in claims involving serious personal injury, with particular emphasis on claims with complex medical causation issues.  Her practice focuses on:

  • all forms of pain syndromes, including chronic pain syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and somatoform disorders;
  • fatalities;
  • serious spinal damage;
  • brain injury cases, including those characterised as subtle in nature and FND claims;
  • complex orthopaedic and amputation cases;
  • psychiatric conditions

Anna deals with liability disputes in all forms of RTA, EL and PL claims.  She is currently instructed in a number of high value RTA claims with multiple accident reconstruction experts.

Her caseload is heavily weighted towards acting for Insurers, but she is also regularly instructed on behalf of Claimants.  Anna frequently appears unled against KCs.

Anna lives in the West Country but her practice is nationwide.

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