Young Street Chambers
76 Quay Street, Spinningfields
Manchester M3 4PR
Tel: 0161 833 0489
Fax: 0161 835 3938
DX: 25583 Manchester 5
Email: clerks@young-st-chambers.com

Personal injury

Young Street Chambers has leading personal injury practitioners undertaking work on behalf of both claimants and defendants.

We provide advice and representation for all types of claim, from litigation involving injuries of the utmost severity to those sustained in minor tripping accidents. Our areas of practice include:

  • Accidents at work
  • Industrial disease cases (including asbestos related claims, industrial asthma, dermatitis, work related stress claims, industrial deafness and work related upper limb disorder claims)
  • Road traffic claims
  • Claims involving allegations of fraud/fabrication/exaggeration
  • Severe brain and spinal injury cases
  • Product liability
  • Fatal accident claims
  • Sports injuries
  • CICA claims
  • Motor Insurer Bureau claims
  • Holiday claims and injuries abroad
  • Child abuse claims
  • Inquests

Young Street Chambers provide a specialist group of practitioners with extensive experience in the costs aspect of personal injury litigation including Conditional Fee enforceability and related issues.

All work is dealt with promptly. For most work, a return of papers within 21 days is the maximum. We regularly lecture on various aspects of medical law and personal injury litigation including providing and delivering commissioned lecture programmes tailored to meet the CPD requirements of solicitors.

Please contact our clerks for more information.

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March 10th, 2010

david-james49x49David James represents a lorry driver sentenced to two years imprisonment for causing the death of a mother of three having driven his lorry into the rear of a queue of stationary traffic.  Read more

March 5th, 2010

ahmed-nadim49x49On the 26th of February, 2010 Aaron Strorey, represented by Ahmed Nadim, was found not guilty of an involvement in a conspiracy to murder after a trial lasting 5 weeks at the Crown Court sitting in Sheffield.  The allegation arose from a gangland type ‘drive by’ shooting in which one person died and two others were seriously wounded.

January 25th, 2010

mlaYoung Street Chambers are delighted to have been named as a finalist for Barristers Chambers of the Year at the inaugural Manchester Legal Awards to be held on 4 March 2010.  MEN: Debut legal award finalists are revealed

January 25th, 2010

ahmed-nadim49x49Ahmed Nadim defended Imran Mohamed Haji Patel at Leicester Crown Court.  Patel and another businessman admitted to fradulent trading and money laundering.   Mr Patel avoided a custodial sentence in this substantial fraud case, although  the co-accused was given a prsion sentence.  In mitigation, the court heard the defendants initially ran their businesses legitimately before becoming embroiled in the scam at the behest of others.  Ahmed Nadim, for Patel, said his client was recruited for money-laundering purposes, with the offer of money but made no profit.  Read more

Courtserve Legal News Mar10

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:53 -0000 Photography under threat: The shooting party’s over

The authorities have the power to confiscate your camera — or even arrest you — for daring to take a picture in public, mainly because of wide and misused powers in the Terrorism Act of 2000. ::: Times

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:37 -0000 COMMENT: Can Jon Venables have a fair trial?

Baroness Butler-Sloss, the judge who granted life-long anonymity to the killers of the two-year-old James Bulger, has warned that Jon Venables could be murdered if his new identity is revealed ::: Times

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:21 -0000 Presumption that children should not give evidence abolished by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has responded to a call from the Court of Appeal for a review of the rules on child witnesses in care proceedings by scrapping the presumption that children should not give oral evidence. ::: Solicitors Journal

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:06 -0000 Bid to scrap ancient right of entry laws, many still be in force

An ancient law allowing people on private land without a warrant if they are following a bee might still apply and is one of 1,208 powers of entry in dozens of different Acts of Parliament unearthed by a Tory peer who has launched a bid to curb the wide-ranging powers. ::: BBC

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:45 -0000 Law firms prepare to float on the stock market

City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang. ::: Times

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:17:09 -0000 Supreme Court backs residents wanting to turn golf course into 'town green'

A council golf course near the Tees estuary in Redcar must be registered as a ‘town green’ under the Commons Act 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled. ::: Solicitors Journal

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