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James Pickering
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UK Bar 2025
Barristers profile | UK Bar 2025: Personal Injury: Industrial Disease, Travel: International Personal Injury, Personal Injury
James Pickering
Ranked in 3 Practice Areas
2

Band 2

Personal Injury: Industrial Disease

All Circuits

3 Years Ranked

3

Band 3

Travel: International Personal Injury

London (Bar)

3 Years Ranked

4

Band 4

Personal Injury

London (Bar)

1 Years Ranked

About

Provided by James Pickering

UK Bar

Career

James is a leading junior in cases involving serious injuries and fatal accidents, with extensive expertise and experience in international and group litigation. He acts in the most cutting-edge and high profile litigation, often with a cross-border element. He has expertise in all of the complex legal issues that arise in international claims and regularly deals with jurisdictional issues and the conflict of laws.

James is a robust and effective trial advocate. He enjoys working as part of a team on large-scale litigation and he delivers pragmatic advice with a consistent focus on maximising his clients' prospects of success. He finds paths through the most legally and factually complex of cases to get the right outcome for his clients.

He edits the leading practitioner textbooks in his main areas of practice: Occupational Illness Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell), Asbestos: Law & Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell), and Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service (Accidents Abroad) (LexisNexis UK).

Chambers Review

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UK-Bar

Personal Injury: Industrial Disease - All Circuits

2
Band 2
Individual Editorial

James Pickering is regularly instructed to act on behalf of claimants in mesothelioma claims. He is also noted for his work in relation to group actions brought by military personnel suffering hearing loss and non-freezing cold injuries.

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Travel: International Personal Injury - London (Bar)

3
Band 3
Individual Editorial

James Pickering offers a breadth of knowledge in relation to cross-border personal injury claims. He has experience defending claims on behalf of insurers as well as acting for large groups of claimants.

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Personal Injury - London (Bar)

4
Band 4
Individual Editorial

James Pickering has a broad personal injury practice that includes an industrial disease specialism. He acts for claimants as well as defendants and has experience handling brain injuries as well as group litigation. He has further expertise in claims arising from accidents abroad.

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Strengths

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James cuts his teeth and gets to grips with matters very quickly. He is very good on detail, good with clients and not daunted by the other side.

Personal Injury: Industrial Disease respondent
UK-Bar

James is really excellent - a technical and effective advocate.

Personal Injury: Industrial Disease respondent
UK-Bar

James has great technical skills, and his advice is well measured and reasoned.

Personal Injury: Industrial Disease respondent
UK-Bar

James is a super junior with a massive future. He is incredibly bright, meticulous and approachable.

Travel: International Personal Injury respondent
UK-Bar

James is a very good technical lawyer who is measured in his delivery and extremely intelligent.

Travel: International Personal Injury respondent
UK-Bar

He gives excellent advice, delivered with an attention to detail and a reassuring, calming demeanour.

Travel: International Personal Injury respondent
UK-Bar

James is a very good technical lawyer. He is quiet and unassuming, and measured in his delivery and approach, but extremely intelligent.

Personal Injury respondent
UK-Bar

James is straightforward and practical, and provides quick returns.

Personal Injury respondent
UK-Bar

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