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Bill Braithwaite QC - Catastrophic Injury Lawyer

  • £4.2 million settlement today - a good example of mediation working well
  • Getting patients home… read more
  • Case has left me with warm glow of satisfaction… read more
  • Settlement meetings and the true needs of the claimant… read more
  • Consultations - genuine co-operation still not universal… read more




  • I have been a QC for 20 years
  • I have always practised as a personal injury lawyer, and since taking silk I have worked exclusively for claimants who have suffered catastrophic brain and spine injury. I never work for defendants
  • I have won hundreds of millions of pounds in client compensation
  • I have represented well over 1,000 catastrophic or spine injury claimants
  • I regularly finalise over £50 million of claims a year – £55 million in 2010
  • I am the author of “Brain and Spine Injuries - the Fight for Justice” – 2nd edition out now as an e-book
  • I was the consultant editor of Kemp & Kemp on The Quantum of Damages from 1995 to 2004
  • I am the joint editor of “Medical Aspects of Personal Injury Litigation”, with Professor Barnes and Professor Ward
  • I am an accredited mediator, and I support mediation and ADR in appropriate personal injury cases
  • I travel the country seeing injured people and their families, at their convenience
  • I believe passionately in the rights of those who have suffered catastrophic injury, and their families
Bill Braithwaite Q.C

"I do not know how to start to say thank you for what you have done for me. When some around me had doubt and I was ready to take the easier and safer option, you above all stood firm and gave me the courage to see it through."

David Tolley
Landmark serious injury case 2010

Tel: Liverpool Exchange Chambers: 0151 236 7747  Manchester Exchange Chambers: 0161 833 2722  Leeds Exchange Chambers: 0113 345 3326

email:braithwaiteqc@exchangechambers.co.uk

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