Ben Bradley KC took silk at age 40, having previously been recommended as a Band 1 leading junior.
He acts for both Claimants and Defendants in clinical negligence and personal injury cases where individuals have suffered life changing injuries.
His personal injury practice covers a range of niche areas of expertise, including aviation accidents, equestrian accidents, injuries arising from sport and cross-border litigation (including significant experience of representing foreign nationals who leave the UK jurisdiction following catastrophic injury).
His clinical negligence practice covers all areas of medicine. He has particular expertise in birth injury, adult brain injury; spinal injury/cauda equina cases; and amputation cases.
The legal directories endorse his technical and client care skills. Ben is described as being “quite simply outstanding”. He is known as being a “fierce litigator [with] a good eye for the detail” whilst equally putting “claimants and experts at ease”.
In recent years, he has recovered in excess of £50m for Claimants as well as defending multiple catastrophic injury claims on behalf of Defendants.
Clinical Negligence
Ben’s clinical negligence practice exclusively focuses on serious injury work, spanning across all areas of medicine. He has particular expertise in birth injury, adult brain injury; spinal injury/cauda equina cases; and amputation cases. Ben also receives regular instructions from the major Medical Defence Organisations, with a particular expertise of representing medical practitioners at Inquests, and in civil proceedings.
He goes to trial regularly; succeeding for Claimants on liability, variously in amputation; brain injury; spinal injury and urology cases in recent years. The directories frequently praise his ability to “simplify the most complex medical cases” (Chambers & Partners, 2023) whilst retaining his ability to act as “a fierce litigator…[with] a good eye for the detail” (Chambers & Partners, 2024). His client care skills are well recognised, being described as someone who will “put clients at ease” (Chambers & Partners, 2023) and who “relate[s] well to his clients regardless of their intellectual ability” (Chambers & Partners, 2020).
Personal Injury
Ben’s personal injury practice mostly focuses on spinal cord injury, brain injury and amputation cases.
He also practises across a range of niche specialisms. He has been involved in ground-breaking litigation in cases involving historic sexual abuse (particularly in sporting contexts). He has represented some of the leading race trainers in the country defending personal injury cases brought against them following riding accidents. He has appeared in the House of Lords/Supreme Court on 3 separate occasions.
Ben has represented numerous foreign nationals who have suffered catastrophic injury in the United Kingdom, before seeking to return home for their care and rehabilitation. He has recovered significant damages (including on a PPO basis in local currency and/or adopting a more advantageous discount rate) for such Claimants, structured in such a way to minimise the additional economic and currency risks which may arise from living outside the UK.