Meet & Mingle: Spinal Injury

Joseph specialises in all aspects of personal injury litigation; including injuries of the utmost severity, fatal accidents, pain cases, industrial disease, and clinical negligence. He is instructed, in broadly equal terms, by both claimants and defendants. He has a reputation for hard work and forensic attention to detail.

He is regularly instructed in high value and complex cases and is experienced in settling schedules of loss and counter schedules in claims valued well into six figures and in excess of £1 million. Joseph is frequently instructed to attend joint settlement meetings and also has experience of brain and spinal cord injuries and loss of limb cases. These cases regularly require adapted accommodation and the establishment of case management and care/support worker regimes, they also include the making of related interim payment applications.

In recent years Joseph has been increasingly instructed in pain disorder cases; including fibromyalgia, CRPS, somatisation, and chronic pain/central sensitisation. Joseph also has experience of claims against the Ministry of Defence (MOD) including non-freezing cold injuries. Joseph is praised for his friendly and approachable style in conference, with an innate ability to put clients at ease and explain complex matters in terms that are easily understood, while also being recognised as a thorough and tenacious trial advocate among his peers. He is often involved throughout the litigation process from pre-issue tactics and evidence through to trial.