Henry Witcomb KC

Practice Areas

Henry Witcomb KC has a practice specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, public authority liability and inquest representation. He has been involved in several of the leading cases in these fields.

A significant amount of the work undertaken by Henry in both the clinical negligence and personal injury fields has involved participation in several multi-party actions, a number of which have involved claimants residing abroad. Principally these actions have involved the abuse and care of children but also involving other classes of personal injury and clinical negligence claimants.

Henry has particular expertise in dealing with complex and high-value Clinical Negligence cases involving birth-related catastrophic injury, and claims involving wrongful death and wrongful birth.

Henry’s Personal Injury work has focused in particular on catastrophic spinal and brain injuries. He has been frequently instructed to act on behalf of the Official Solicitor to represent the interests of claimants who lack capacity. This work has increasingly involved exploration of the overlapping obligations of tortfeasors and state bodies, health, social services and education authorities, to claimants. He also has wide-ranging experience in other sub-fields including many years’ experience of all types of case including those involving employer’s liability, road accident and criminal injuries.

Henry also has extensive experience representing families and other interested parties in inquest proceedings, including health professionals. Most recently he represented the family of Horatio Chapple, who died during an expedition to Svalbard; and Grace Roseman, who died due to a defect in her bedside sleeper cot.