Clerk Details
- Clerk Name: Dave Snook
- Clerk Telephone: 01865 797700/020 7583 8055
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
Personal Injury
Rhiannon has a wide‑ranging personal injury practice and is instructed in claims across the spectrum of complexity and value. Her advocacy experience includes trials, CCMCs, applications for pre‑action disclosure, strike outs, relief from sanctions, and applications to resile. She also has experience dealing with third‑party costs issues, including enforcement arising from Tescher v Direct Accident Management Limited [2025] EWCA Civ 733.
Her experience includes:
- Appearing in a broad range of personal injury trials, including matters involving allegations of fundamental dishonesty and applications under s.57 of the Criminal Justice Act 2015.
- Advising on liability and quantum in claims involving fractures, scarring, dental and ophthalmic trauma, PTSD, and injuries resulting in long‑term or permanent impairment.
- Preparing schedules of loss in personal injury and fatal accident claims, including Ogden‑based calculations, complex earnings assessments for employed and self‑employed claimants, and substantial care‑related losses.
- Acting in fatal accident litigation, including advising on dependency claims.
- Drafting pleadings across negligence, Highways Act claims, employers’ liability, occupiers’ liability, and road traffic matters.
- Advising on prospects and litigation strategy throughout the life of a claim.
- Bringing and defending a wide range of interim applications, including strike outs, applications to narrow issues, pre‑action disclosure, adjournments, reinstatement of claims, relief from sanctions, and costs‑related applications.
- Attending mediations and advising on settlement strategy and negotiation.