Matthew Harrington
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant
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Band 4
About
Provided by Matthew Harrington
Career
Before its merger with Clyde & Co, Matthew was BLM’s senior partner between March 2018 and June 2022.
He has a broad practice specialising in a range of areas principal amongst which is his defence and advisory work on behalf of organisations and individuals including crisis response, accident investigation and the defence of regulatory and manslaughter prosecutions. He is a regular speaker on health and safety issues and compliance at client and industry events.
Matthew enjoys a truly national practice which also includes group litigation, sort and long tail disease and cases of the utmost severity including brain, spinal injury and amputation.
Chambers Review
UK
Matthew Harrington is particularly adept at industrial disease and workplace accident claims. He has experience defending steelyards against personal injury claims, including class actions pursued by hundreds of claimants. He works in both Cardiff and London.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Matthew has excellent technical knowledge and provides excellent client service. He is very responsive to queries and urgent matters."
"He knows what he's doing and is a safe pair of hands. He is very experienced and has good expertise."
"Matthew has excellent technical knowledge and provides excellent client service. He is very responsive to queries and urgent matters."
"He knows what he's doing and is a safe pair of hands. He is very experienced and has good expertise."