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About
Provided by Giles Mooney KC
Practice Areas
Giles deals with heavyweight litigation in clinical negligence, professional negligence and personal injury. His personal injury and clinical negligence practice encompasses all aspects of catastrophic injury work, acting mainly, but not exclusively, for claimants.
He has extensive experience of birth injury claims, other brain injury claims and spinal injuries. Giles is equally at home dealing with complex liability issues and quantum awards of the highest level. Giles does a wide variety of personal injury. He has particular interests in claims involving animals, having been involved in 4 Court of Appeal cases concerning the Animals Act 1971, and accidents at sea.
Giles has a growing professional negligence workload acting in claims against solicitors, financial advisors and vets amongst others.
Recent work highlights have included:
Croydon Tram Inquest 2021
Ford v Seymour-Williams [2021] EWCA Civ 1848
ST v BAI (t/a Brittany Ferries) [2022] EWCA Civ 1037
Chadwick v RH Ovenden [2022] EWHC 1701 (QB)
Parry v Johnson [2022] EWHC 89 (QB)
FLR v Chandran [2023] EWHC 1671 (QB)
Professional Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
AvMA.
Publications
Contributing editor to “Guides to Road Traffic Accident Claims” (Jordans). Contributing editor to “Guide to occupational Illness Claims” (Jordans). Contributing editor to 9 Gough Square (now Deka Chambers) publication – “Guide to Clinical Negligence Claims”.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Giles Mooney KC dedicates his practice to dealing with clinical negligence and personal injury claims. He represents both claimants and defendants, and has knowledge pertaining to a wide variety of issues, including birth injuries, as well as surgical and diagnosis cases.
Giles Mooney KC regularly acts for both claimants and defendants, and is one of the foremost experts for cases involving injuries caused by animals. He has vast experience in multimillion-pound catastrophic injury claims, which often involve complex liability issues.
Giles Mooney KC is instructed on a range of serious and complex international personal injury matters. He represents claimants who have sustained life-changing injuries during aquatic activities. He has also been instructed on behalf of cruise ship owners.
Giles Mooney KC of Deka Chambers is a respected silk with a broad injury practice. He is especially experienced in claims involving horses, particularly those arising from riding accidents in a sports context. His knowledge of the Animals Act 1971 is notably strong, having acted in a number of leading decisions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is highly intelligent and yet approachable."
"He is a good advocate who is good in conference."
"Giles is a very impressive silk who combines legal and tactical skills with commercial awareness."
"Giles is always a pleasure to work with. He is great with clients and experts and very good on his feet at trial."
"Giles is an exceptional litigator. He is personable, attentive and extremely knowledgeable. He always delivers on his brief."
"Giles is always very approachable and knowledgeable. He is very good with clients and always responds in a timely manner. when working with Giles, you feel that you are part of a team."
"His advocacy skills are excellent. He has a direct yet personable approach with clients and an easy, collaborative approach with instructing solicitors."
"Giles is excellent in respect of liability and can clearly and quickly distil a case down to its essentials."
"Giles is a very impressive KC who combines legal, tactical and commercial awareness."
"He is highly intelligent and yet approachable."
"He is a good advocate who is good in conference."
"Giles is a very impressive silk who combines legal and tactical skills with commercial awareness."
"Giles is always a pleasure to work with. He is great with clients and experts and very good on his feet at trial."
"Giles is an exceptional litigator. He is personable, attentive and extremely knowledgeable. He always delivers on his brief."
"Giles is always very approachable and knowledgeable. He is very good with clients and always responds in a timely manner. when working with Giles, you feel that you are part of a team."
"His advocacy skills are excellent. He has a direct yet personable approach with clients and an easy, collaborative approach with instructing solicitors."
"Giles is excellent in respect of liability and can clearly and quickly distil a case down to its essentials."
"Giles is a very impressive KC who combines legal, tactical and commercial awareness."
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