Prior to joining Chambers Elliott worked on the reported case providing a comprehensive summary of the common law defence of illegality: RO (by his Litigation Friend, MI) v Freddy Gray; and the MIB [2021] EWHC 2770 (QB)
Elliott Clifton-Thompson has a mixed civil practice, accepting instructions in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and various Business, Property and Commercial disputes. He has a diverse practice across those areas, acting for both Claimants and Defendants, and has extensive drafting and trial experience.
Elliott comes to the Bar with a wealth of experience as a Solicitor, and is able to apply his knowledge and experience as a Solicitor to working well as part of the legal team with the lay and professional client.
Elliott has specific experience with Inquests and fatal accident claims and has experience in the First Tier Tribunal, Criminal Injuries Compensation Chamber. He has written articles in the field of personal injury and is closely involved with associated brain injury charities, having sat in positions of office for multiple Headway committees. He further regularly delivers training in his areas of practice to Instructing Solicitors and regularly speaks at conferences, providing legal updates.
Elliott sits on the executive committee of the Personal Injury Bar Association.
Elliott has extensive experience in personal injury litigation and accepts instructions for both Claimants and Defendants. The breadth of his experiences spans employers’ liability, public liability, occupier’s liability and road traffic accidents, and he is experienced in dealing with complex liability disputes requiring a forensic analysis of extensive disclosure and dealing with difficult issues with liability experts on conference and at trial.
Elliott has specific experience in high-value, complex, quantum disputes, including catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury. Elliott has experience with mild traumatic brain injury cases as well as functional neurological disorder injuries. He has further experience with chronic regional pain syndrome cases and is comfortable working alongside a multi-disciplinary team-led rehabilitation package.
Elliott is experienced in high-value drafting and accepts instructions to prepare detailed sets of pleadings in catastrophic injury litigation. Elliott accepts instructions at all levels of personal injury and has a busy Court and papers practice in the Fast and Multi-tracks.
Elliott has specific experience working in catastrophic injury, in particular brain injury litigation. Elliott has extensive knowledge of brain injury and is experienced in working with Claimants suffering from a range of cognitive deficits, executive functioning difficulties and behavioural challenges.
Elliott has worked closely with busy rehabilitation packages and appreciates the need for a rehab-driven approach to litigation.
Elliott has further experience in poly-trauma orthopaedic cases, requiring a forensic examination of medical evidence to identify how best to extrapolate a Claimant’s needs from a complex medical picture.
Prior to joining Chambers Elliott worked on the reported case providing a comprehensive summary of the common law defence of illegality: RO (by his Litigation Friend, MI) v Freddy Gray; and the MIB [2021] EWHC 2770 (QB)
Elliott has a busy Clinical Negligence Practice in both the Fast and Multi-Track. He has experience in a broad variety of medical disputes, including dealing with complex cancer cases, birth injury, cosmetic treatment negligence and dental negligence. Elliott regularly acts as junior on catastrophic cerebral palsy cases and has experience of complex drafting in difficult cases on breach of duty, causation and quantum. Elliott has experience in dealing with challenging issues relating to limitation and date of knowledge and has a firm grasp of the law in the area.
Elliott regularly speaks and delivers training in the area of clinical negligence. Some of the recent training he has delivered includes: Causation in Clinical Negligence; A Practical Guide to Article 2 Inquests in Clinical Negligence; and Legal Update in Consent Cases.
Elliott accepts instructions across a wide range of Commercial, Property and Inheritance disputes. He is experienced in providing advocacy, drafting and written advice, as well as advice in conference should that be preferred. Elliott has a diligent and thorough approach to his work and is comfortable when dealing with complex and document heavy matters. He has trial experience in the Multi-Track in complex possession disputes, and regularly appears for Claimant’s and Defendants at a variety of levels.
His experience includes dealing with the following:
Recently, Melanie Mills, Afiya Amesu and Elliott Clifton- Thompson of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Groups have delivered training sessions covering the latest developments…
John Coughlan KC, instructed by Gurpreet Lalli of Irwin Mitchell LLP (Cambridge), achieved recent success at an application hearing in the case of Webb before…
“Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, Elliott just saved us huge pain and grief which would have 100% been the case had you not done this. We hope to work with Elliott throughout. What a wonderful barrister he is.”
Recently, Melanie Mills, Afiya Amesu and Elliott Clifton- Thompson of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Groups have delivered training sessions covering the latest developments…
John Coughlan KC, instructed by Gurpreet Lalli of Irwin Mitchell LLP (Cambridge), achieved recent success at an application hearing in the case of Webb before…
