Personal Injury Practice is a step-by-step guide to personal injury litigation practice written by a highly respected team of authors. It provides everything needed to conduct efficient and successful PI litigation for claimants and sets out authoritative guidance at every stage of proceedings from first interview with a client to the end of an appeal.
Written in a unique case management-led style, it approaches the subject with best practice always at the fore. Helpful specimen letters and precedents are included in the text.
The new edition covers the numerous developments in the field of PI and includes new chapters on:
Accidents abroad
Group actions
The new computer portal system for claims up to £25,000
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.
Andrew Buchan is a clinical negligence and personal injury specialist, with experience of a wide range of clinical negligence claims from high value brain injury, cerebral palsy and missed spinal injury claims, to claims including ambulance delays, failure to diagnose meningitis, failure to diagnose leukaemia and other types of cancer, and dental negligence claims. His experience in personal injury covers road traffic claims, including severe spinal injury claims, workplace claims and disease claims, including fatal accident claims, work related upper limb disorder claims, manual handling claims, work equipment claims, working at height claims and claims for harassment and occupational stress.
Jenny Kennedy is a Partner in the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence department at Anthony Gold Solicitors. She specialises in complex and serious head and spinal injury claims.
The 2016 edition of Chambers ranks her as a "star individual", one of just three in the field of personal injury in London. This independent guide to the legal profession describes her as "extremely thorough and dedicated to her clients" for whom "she always goes the extra mile". She fights "tooth and nail" for her clients and one client comments how "she always made herself available and made sense of complex issues". The Legal 500 2015 ranks her as a "leading individual", who describe her as "exceptional".
Jenny is on the joint editorial board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure. She is co-author of Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims and she is also a co-author of Personal Injury Practice, both published by Bloomsbury Professional.
Eliot Woolf specialises exclusively in the fields of personal injury (domestic and international) and clinical negligence. His personal injury work has a focus on spinal injury claims, military claims and foreign accident/ group illness claims. His clinical negligence practice is wide ranging, representing both claimants and defendants. He is listed in the main directories as a leading silk in the fields of Clinical Negligence, Personal injury and Travel Law.
