Joel McMillan

Personal Injury

Personal injury is Joel’s bread and butter. He has experience of claims across the full spectrum of personal injury litigation, including those involving accidents abroad and those arising out of discrimination at work. Increasingly, his cases are high value and complex.

He acts for Claimants and Defendants in roughly equal measure. He enjoys seeing litigation from both sides and he considers it an advantage to be able to understand the perspective of both parties when considering tactics and strategy.

He is instructed to deal with all stages of claims, including pleadings, CCMCs, Part 35 questions and conferences with experts, advising on liability and quantum, interlocutory hearings, JSMs, and trials.

Some examples of Joel’s recent work includes:

• Helping secure £1.1 million in personal injury damages for a claimant whose employer subjected her to sex discrimination. Her treatment caused significant psychiatric injury, which left her unable to resume a career in banking. The case gained widespread national media attention and made the front page of the Financial Times. Further information about the case can be found here
• Acting for one of the defendants in a complex, multi-party occupiers’ liability claim, and successfully arguing that the relevant defendant was not an occupier of the premises in question
• Securing a total settlement of c.£250,000 for multiple claimants at JSM in claims for disease caused by defective premises
• Various chronic pain cases for claimants and defendants
• Numerous findings of fundamental dishonesty against claimants who lied in relation to liability and/or quantum
• Acting for, and advising, a claimant who was seriously injured in an accident on a building site in a claim with multiple defendants who all initially denied liability. The claim settled on favourable terms