Tom Herbert

A post by Jack McCracken addressing the legal test for granting a stay of a personal injury claim where a claimant refuses to have a medical test following the decision in Samantha Danyelle Clarke v Matthew Poole and Others. bit.ly/4iGMKLW

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We are delighted to announce that Dominic Parisutham is our latest tenant at Chambers after his successful completion of pupillage. For more on Dominic: bit.ly/ropewalkDP

Our congratulations to Thomas Herbert (@tomherbert) who has been ranked as a Top Tier Leading Junior in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500. Thomas is ranked in Clinical Negligence, Inquests and Inquires, Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation. For more on Tom's practice: bit.ly/RWTHerbert

We are delighted to announce that Ropewalk Chambers is once again recognised as a Top Tier set in The Legal 500 2025 rankings. We are recognised in 5 categories: 🔵 Personal Injury 🔵 Inquest and Inquiries 🔵 Clinical Negligence 🔵 Costs 🔵 Property and Construction Congratulations to all our barristers for this achievement. We will be posting our individual rankings shortly! We also happily pay our #HumbleBrag fee to Billable Hour.

@turtomagoo 😇

@tomherbert I know why it’s important. But…

I’ve said it before and (with apologies to my colleagues) will undoubtedly say it again: compliance with the various Practice Directions on the citation of authorities is the pedantic legal hill upon which I am prepared to die.

@turtomagoo I will explain all the reasons why it’s very important when I next see you.

@tomherbert Oh get a grip…

We are delighted to announce that Louise Gillett is our latest tenant at Chambers after her successful completion of pupillage. For more on Louise: bit.ly/RopewalkLG

Jayne Adams KC and Thomas Herbert open our Clinical Negligence Litigation Conference 2024 with their talk on Material Contribution in Clinical Negligence after Holmest. Thank you to all our attendees at today’s conference. For more on Jayne’s Practice: bit.ly/3zc0iLM For more on Tom’s Practice: bit.ly/34T6qs4

@PatchLimb Spare a thought for the silent minority.

I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is: A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer

Interested in accent discrimination? Here's our research what is happening at the Bar: theconversation.com/most-people-st…

Sign up below for @ropewalklaw's latest series of personal injury webinars. @SHopkinson13 and I will be looking at developments on the boundaries of tort law, including in relation to duties owed by public bodies to third parties.

🎉🏆 Our congratulations to our pupil Dominic Parisutham who last night was crowned the 2024 Hammond Champion! Congratulations also to all the finalists in this year's competition, hosted by Nottinghamshire Law Society (@NottsLawSociety). To read more: lnkd.in/e8xk8PXx For more on Dominic: bit.ly/3Q8fe5U

.@yuanyi_z argues that the effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another thecritic.co.uk/plain-english-…

📣 PUPILLAGE GATEWAY OPENS TODAY 📣 Ropewalk Chambers is now live on the #PupillageGateway portal. We are offering 2 pupillages in 2025, with awards of £40,000 each. For more on our pupillage schemes: bit.ly/RWPupillage Pupillage Gateway: bit.ly/3S5u3Yz

Nick Vineall KC, Moira Smyth KC, & @RoddyQC respond to the @Telegraph front page 'Starmer helped free dangerous prisoners' -"The idea that barristers (or advocates) should somehow be associated with the causes of those whom they represent is misconceived." telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/1…

On the Ropewalk Personal Injury Blog, Samuel Shelton considers provisional damages: what they are, when the court will award them and how to approach a provisional damages case. To read: bit.ly/3ThWDXD

In our latest Disease Blog post on HAVS, Jack McCracken reviews the IIAC’s command paper and position paper on hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) published in July 2023. To read: bit.ly/3uOrS2c