Barrister, No5 Chambers
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.
Personal Injury
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.
Clinical negligence
Elliott has a busy Clinical Negligence Practice. He has experience in a broad variety of medical disputes, including dealing with complex obstetrics, cancer, birth injury, cosmetic treatment and dental negligence cases. Elliott is adept at dealing with complex cases crossing multiple expert disciplines and is often brought into cases at an early stage to work alongside his instructing solicitor. He recently acted in a difficult gynaecology-oncology case, with complex issues of factual causation.
In addition to his own practice, Elliott regularly acts as junior on catastrophic injury cases, including cerebral palsy, cauda equina and spinal cord injury cases and has experience in complex drafting in difficult cases on breach of duty, causation and quantum. He 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.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Elliott was a solicitor specialising in catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury cases and therefore comes equipped with detailed knowledge of those areas, but also has a first-hand understanding of both sides of the profession.
Alongside his busy practice, Elliott regularly delivers training in the area of clinical negligence, including by delivering training regularly to firms, as well as speaking at larger conferences. 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.