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Ben Handy

Deputy Head of the Personal Injury team

Call: 2008

Inn: Lincoln's Inn

Judical Office: Recorder (2023)

Ben Handy

Ben’s advice is always well considered and thought through in order to meet the needs of the client. He is very approachable, and a very good communicator.”

The Legal 500 2026

Personal Injury

Personal Injury

St John's Chambers - Cross Garnet Rouge

Ben is Deputy Head of Chambers’ Personal Injury Department, a mediator and part-time Crown Court judge.

His practice focuses on catastrophic injury: orthopaedic polytrauma, traumatic brain injury, fatal and life-shortening injuries, accommodation claims, vulnerable road users, and complex issues of causation and quantum. He is frequently instructed as sole junior in multi-million-pound claims involving capacity, deputyship, care, prosthetics, assistive technology and provisional damages, and generally accepts instructions only in High Court cases valued at £250,000 or above.

He is ranked as a leading junior in the independent legal directories on the strength of his clients’ feedback, where he is recognised for his “resourceful and highly adaptable” advocacy and “excellent advice on strategy” in catastrophic injury claims. He is described as “user friendly and approachable”, providing “a high standard of technical advice” and combining “great client care skills with tactical nous”. He is valued for cutting through complex liability issues and explaining them clearly and sensitively.

Ben works closely with instructing solicitors as part of a cohesive team, with a pragmatic and constructive approach to opponents. He brings a valuable dual perspective to his cases, combining his advocacy practice with experience sitting as a judge and acting as a mediator.

Ben is a regular speaker and commentator on personal injury law. He delivers seminars to specialist audiences of claimant and defendant lawyers, insurers, experts and healthcare professionals, and most recently spoke at the Brain Injury Group’s Adult Brain Injury Seminar. He previously lectured at its Child Brain Injury Seminar alongside Christopher Sharp KC. His writing has appeared in leading practitioner publications including PI Focus and Counsel, and he is a regular contributor to Chambers’ seminars, conference programme and Personal Injury Podcast, covering topics such as traumatic brain injury, provisional damages and complex heads of loss.

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA)
  • Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)

 

Additional information:

In his free time Ben loves anything sport-related. He has run marathons in Liverpool, Paris (twice), and London. In 2019 he completed the 53-mile Race to the Tower, and in 2016 he completed Oxfam’s 100km Trailwalker alongside Chambers’ Joss Knight and Charlie Newington-Bridges. Most Summers you will find him in the queue at Wimbledon or getting frustrated with the England football team.

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QUALIFICATIONS
  • LLB Law (First Class Hons), University of Manchester (2007), Bar Vocational Course MMU (2008)
  • University of Manchester R.G. Lawson prizes in Law, Medicine & Ethics; Constitutional Reform and Mental Health Law (2007)
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