Jenny Kennedy

Practice Areas

Jenny Kennedy is a Partner on Anthony Gold’s Injury and Medical Claims team.

A complex brain, spinal and amputation expert, Jenny is well known for representing foreign national clients injured in the UK as well as British nationals injured abroad. She settled the first reported case involving indexation of periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction and secured a verdict of unlawful killing before a UK Coroner for the family of a mother killed whilst on holiday In South America.

Described as "one of the most respected PI claimant lawyers in the country" her expertise includes dealing with all the associated elements of catastrophic injury litigation and managing the needs of clients with issues associated with significant head injury. Jenny is recognised as a Star Individual in the Chambers Directory and a Hall of Fame Lawyer in The Legal 500.

Jenny has a medical background, having qualified as a psychiatric nurse, and her clinical negligence expertise includes a wide range of claims of complexities with a special interest in psychiatric and orthopaedic injury cases.

In 2022 Jenny was named "Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year" at the annual PI Awards.

Professional Memberships

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) member

Law Society Personal Injury panel member

Law Society Clinical Negligence panel member

Publications

On the Editorial Board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure

Co-author of Personal Injury Practice (Bloomsbury Professional)

Co-author of Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims (Bloomsbury Professional)