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About
Provided by Katherine Howells
Practice Areas
Katherine Howells specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, travel, aviation and associated commercial proceedings.
She has extensive experience acting for Claimants and Defendants. Katherine’s domestic practice has a focus on high-value fatal and traumatic injuries sustained in road traffic and workplace accidents or assaults, particularly brain injuries and psychiatric and pain conditions, together with cases involving occupiers’ and public liability
Her clinical negligence practice is concerned principally with hospital acquired injuries.
She also has a significant travel practice with particular specialist knowledge of and interest in aviation matters. Katherine deals frequently with claims involving accidents overseas, foreign nationals injured or killed in the UK, questions of jurisdiction and applicable law, the right to cross border recovery of benefits, claims under the Package Travel Regulations and Athens Convention, Montreal Convention passenger death and injury, delay and lost or damaged baggage claims, delayed and denied boarding and downgrading claims under EC Regulation 261/2004 and accidents on board aircraft (including hot air balloons and microlights) or at airports or airfields.
She is also experienced in dealing with contractual and other recovery proceedings by tour operators against foreign suppliers, aviation maintenance disputes and claims concerning IATA Ground Handling Agreements.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1994.
Professional Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association, Travel & Tourism Lawyers Association.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Katherine Howells is an impressive junior who acts predominantly on behalf of claimants and deals with a wide range of claims, relating to matters such as brain and spinal cord injuries, psychiatric injuries and amputations, as well as fatalities. Her cases often arise out of RTAs and accidents at work, and she is noted for her expertise in employers', public and occupiers' liability claims. She is regularly instructed in multiparty litigation.
Katherine Howells of Old Square Chambers handles claims arising from accidents resulting in serious injury and death overseas. She is also experienced in the handling of claims involving foreign nationals injured in the UK. She has a strong focus on the aviation industry and handles, among others, matters concerning air accidents and airport- and airfield-related incidents.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Katherine is an excellent counsel to work with. She has a sharp eye for detail while always bearing in mind the commercial issues in play."
"She is a brilliant, no-nonsense advocate who is great with clients."
"Katherine is superb and we enjoy working with her."
"Katherine is a persuasive advocate who is always on top of her brief and very good at foreseeing issues."
"She is extremely thorough."
"She is very detailed in her written advice and a good team player."
"Katherine is an excellent counsel to work with. She has a sharp eye for detail while always bearing in mind the commercial issues in play."
"She is a brilliant, no-nonsense advocate who is great with clients."
"Katherine is superb and we enjoy working with her."
"Katherine is a persuasive advocate who is always on top of her brief and very good at foreseeing issues."
"She is extremely thorough."
"She is very detailed in her written advice and a good team player."
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