Pankaj specialises in Catastrophic and Life-Changing Injury with specialist expertise in Catastrophic and Subtle Brain Injury , severe limb injury, high-value Pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) claims.
He attracts a loyal and ever-increasing following from both Claimants and insurers. He acts usually only in very high value cases often involving pedestrians or motorcyclists or falls at work. He is adept at liability issues.
He is from a medical family and has an excellent understanding of medical issues. In fact he was the first legal member to sit on a Section Committee at the Royal Society of Medicine.
He is renowned for his meticulous eye for detail and sensitive, sympathetic client approach, The Legal 500 has said the following - “Very detailed and methodical” Legal 500 2020 Tier 1
"Recommended for his superb strategic approach to brain injury cases” and “He has a brilliant client manner” Legal 500 2019. In 2017, he was noted as “Very experienced in high-value Catastrophic Injury claims” and his “ability to challenge the unusual in cases”. In fact, he has been commended every year by the Legal 500 since 2008.
Pankaj is routinely instructed nationally by leading firms and he frequently confers with severely injured claimants or their Litigation Friends in hospitals or rehabilitation facilities or their own home. Travel anywhere in the country is never an issue.
To ensure balance he is also instructed and respected by leading Defence firms, and sought after by the insurers often at the first intimation of a claim. He always argues for an ethical and fair collaborative approach.
Pankaj has efficiency at the foremost of his practice and operates a “paperless” practice. He welcomes instructions in entirely electronic (PDF) form. This results in better use of fixed or budgeted costs and enhanced security.
He is a Deputy District Judge and has considerable expertise in costs management of high value cases for both Claimants and Defendants.
He is experienced in claims of the utmost severity exceeding £5 million. He often appears against Leading Counsel on his own. In the first six months of 2020 he has settled or fought over £25 million in Catastrophic Injury Claims.
Areas of practice
- Brain injury ranging from catastrophic severity to the subtle but severe –
- “CRPS” Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Chronic and serious limb injuries with actual or potential amputation often with CRPS issues as well.
- Spinal Injury
- Also high-value cases involving:-
- Hyper-extension flexion injuries leading to Chronic Pain syndrome, or exacerbating pre-existing conditions such as fibromyalgia and joint-hypermobility syndrome
- Unusual Psychiatric Injury e.g. Somatisation Disorder and Hysterical Conversion Syndrome
- Fatal accidents
Pankaj is also a national lecturer in personal Injury and published multiple author. He has written several books on Subtle Brain Injury and Chronic Pain. He is writing his third book on Catastrophic Brain Injury. He has been guest lecturer at the Royal Society of Medicine on the subject of Chronic Pain and CRPS and at the Peterhouse Annual Medico-legal Conference in Cambridge, and the International Birmingham Pain Forum. He practises both from 12 King’s Bench Walk in London and Exchange Chambers, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool in broadly equal measure.