Henk Soede

Personal Injury

Henk’s practice spans the full spectrum of personal injury law, including employer and occupier liabilities; product liability; public liability; psychiatric injuries; and vicarious liability. He has been ranked by the legal directories as a “rising star” in this area for several years. Henk has particular experience in claims involving injuries sustained abroad, whether on holiday, in the workplace, or in the maritime and aviation contexts. His practice includes disputes relating to jurisdiction and foreign applicable law.

Selected Cases

• ST v BAI (SA) T/A Brittany Ferries [2022] EWCA Civ 1037 (extension of time for service of the claim form in a claim arising from an alleged sexual assault on a cruise ship).
• Acting for a tour operator in a hypoxic brain injury claim (valued at over £8m) arising out of a drowning accident at a Spanish hotel (led by Sarah Prager KC).
• Acting for the defendant in an employer’s liability claim (c.£800k) involving alleged trauma-induced fibromyalgia and pleaded allegations of fundamental dishonesty (claim discontinued shortly before a three-day trial) (sole counsel).
• Stait v Cosmos Insurance Limited Cyprus [2022] EWCA Civ 1429 (test for domicile in the context of Regulation (EC) No. 1215/2013).
• Piepenbrock v LSE & Ors [2022] EWHC 2421 (KB) (assisting Laura Johnson KC).
• Acting in a claim (c. €300k) arising from an RTA in France which involved complex issues of quantum under French law (sole counsel).
• Acting for c. 250 individuals in a group action (c.+£3m) relating to an outbreak of cyclospora at various hotels in the Riviera Maya (led by Bruce Sylvester).
• Acting for the child claimant in a brain injury claim arising out of a fall from height outside her social housing accommodation (sole counsel).

Awards

• Lord Brougham Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn (2017)
• Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn (2018)

News

• Crown Office Chambers welcomes Henk Soede

Qualifications

• BSc. Politics & Philosophy, First Class, London School of Economics
• GDL, City University
• BPTC, City University

Memberships

• PIBA
• SCL
• COMBAR
• LCLCBA