Alethea Redfern

Personal Injury

Alethea’s personal injury practice focuses on road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, and occupier’s liability, in relation to which she has conducted a number of successful strike-out applications.

As well as her own cases, Alethea gained personal injury experience as a pupil for Alexander Macpherson during the “practising” six months of her pupillage. She has assisted other members of Chambers with a variety of personal injury matters, including in relation to secondary psychiatric injury, occupiers’ liability, industrial and occupational diseases, and drafting schedules and counter-schedules.

Examples of her recent work include:

• Advising a defendant bus company on the most appropriate procedural course of action in response to a claimant passenger’s late service of the Particulars of Claim and medical evidence.
• Defence, counter schedule and advice in relation to a case of alleged acoustic shock, tinnitus and hearing loss, including consideration of whether vicarious liability would be established against a further education college for a student (as a pupil).
• Defence and advice on whether a strike-out application might be appropriate in relation to a claim for psychiatric injury brought by a secondary victim (as a pupil).

She is a member of the Personal Injury Bar Association.

Selected Cases

Awards

• New College Final Examinations Award, University of Oxford
• Lord Haldane and Lord Denning Scholarships, Lincoln’s Inn
• Academic Scholarships, City University and BPP University
• Finalist in the City University GDL Moot and the Inter-Provider BPTC Moot

Events

• Crown Office Chambers at the Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair 2024
• Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2023

News

• Daniel Shapiro KC, Michael Harper and Alethea Redfern acted for World Challenge Expeditions Ltd in its successful claim against Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
• Crown Office Chambers welcomes three new tenants

Articles

• The Supreme Court’s judgment on whether the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 has extra-territorial effect

Qualifications

• English Language & Literature (First Class), University of Oxford
• GDL, City University
• BPTC, BPP University

Memberships

• PIBA
• COMBAR
• TECBAR
• PNBA
• LCLCBA