Fiona Hahlo
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant
Band 4
About
Provided by Fiona Hahlo
Practice Areas
Fiona handles a broad range of complex, catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims, coverage, and health and safety investigations and prosecutions. She acts for both insurers and insureds – often corporate entities, but sometimes individuals too. Fiona’s clients’ interests are wide ranging, and include constructions, sports, leisure, travel & tourism, retail, waste & recycling, equine and many others.
Professional Memberships
Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association
Work Highlights
Claim with four defendants and a paralysed Claimant. I drove this to an early settlement of liability, which in turn led to me acting for all four defendants and their insurer clients to settlement of the claim.
Acted for a structural engineer prosecuted for health and safety offences following a fatality on a construction site. Client initially under suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Subsequently charged with lesser H&S offences.
Acting for insurers in respect of multi-million-pound child brain injury case.
Chambers Review
UK
Fiona Hahlo is noted for her strong defence practice, including personal injury claims arising from workplace and motor accidents.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is a go-to litigator for cases going to trial - she is commercially minded and fierce."
"Fiona is brilliant to work with and has great subject matter knowledge."
"She is a go-to litigator for cases going to trial - she is commercially minded and fierce."
"Fiona is brilliant to work with and has great subject matter knowledge."