Christopher Edwards
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Personal Injury
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About
Provided by Christopher Edwards
Practice Areas
Christopher’s main areas of practice are personal injury (including travel law and industrial disease), clinical negligence, employment, and costs. He also represents interested parties at inquests. A significant part of his practice is court work: he is frequently instructed in high value and lengthy trials, as well as interlocutory matters/case management hearings, and detailed assessments. He appears in the High Court, County Court, Employment Tribunal, EAT, and SCCO. When not in court he has a busy paperwork and advisory practice, and frequently represents his clients in settlement meetings/mediations. He has a mixed practice acting for individuals, insurers, public and private sector employers, and unions. He is regularly instructed in cases with an employment/personal injury cross-over, for example involving high earning individuals bringing claims for psychiatric injury against an employer. He has particular expertise in the healthcare sector and in claims involving aviation, seafaring, and the military.
Career
Called 2006; Gray’s Inn, practising in personal injury, clinical negligence, employment, and costs throughout that time. Prior to being called to the Bar, Christopher trained as an archaeologist, specialising in Aztec and Maya civilisations.
Professional Memberships
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; Employment Law Association; Employment Law Bar Association; Industrial Law Society; Personal Injury Bar Association. Christopher sat on the Employment Law Association management committee until 2016.
Personal
Brasenose College, Oxford (double first), where he was placed second in his year. While training for the Bar he held both the James Crouch Award and David Karmel Award in consecutive years, annual scholarships awarded by Gray’s Inn.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Christopher Edwards is recognised for his impressive handling of both claimant and defendant work. He frequently handles high-value serious injury matters, with significant expertise in fatal accident and industrial disease claims. He also has experience handling claims brought against the Ministry of Justice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Chris is able to place the client at ease and to explain complex legal points in a clear and concise manner."
"He is well prepared, personable and tactically astute."
"Chris is able to place the client at ease and to explain complex legal points in a clear and concise manner."
"He is well prepared, personable and tactically astute."
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