James Candlin

Barrister

Travel, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence

James was called to the Bar in 1991 and has specialised in personal injury work for 25 years. He has extensive experience representing both claimants and defendants in catastrophic injury, brain injury and high value chronic pain cases as well as a wide array of manifestations of clinical negligence and occupational illness. He has an interest in product liability and cases raising scientific aspects of defect or causation.

Expertise

James’ involvement with travel and the law may be traced back to 1994 to 1998, when he was called to the Bar of Bermuda in order to contest cases there. Since then, James has had a travel, overseas injury and jurisdictional issues practice complementing regular appearances for clients in related leisure sectors including vicarious liability arguments relating to assault and misconduct by doormen, guides and entertainers and several sexual assault claims in recent years. His scientific degree and experience lends helpful analysis and specialisation to diverse matters such as engineering failures, foreign safety practices, swimming pool technology, HACCP systems, causation in food poisoning, post-infective IBS, rheumatoid, haemolytic uraemic kidney injury complications and Legionnaires cases. James has also conducted numerous actions arising from clinical/care home and motor racing cases.

James is a specialist personal injury practitioner, acting for claimants and defendants. His experience is broad, and includes: fatal accidents including complex demonstrations of financial consequences, head injury including gross and subtle brain injuries, traumatic amputation with sophisticated prosthetics requirements, chronic pain conditions, occupational disease, and fatal and catastrophic head and bodily injury often in consequence of cycling, motorcycling and motor racing accidents.

James has acted for Claimants and defendants in Clinical Negligence cases. His work has included advising in cerebral palsy and birth injury cases.

James also specialises in health & safety, and is regularly instructed to act in relation to prosecution arising from serious accidents and near misses in industry, freight transport, medical and care institutions.

James has been an enthusiast for ADR who, soon after mediations and joint settlement meetings began, noted the significance of well-judged comment or analysis of case merits from judges as an important aid to parties attempting to reach a resolution, rather than prolong the dispute which might otherwise run on to trial. Of all the forms of ADR, James favours the early neutral evaluation approach and specifically the bespoke service of IE.

Memberships

  • PIBA
  • TATLA
  • AVMA
  • LSM Accredited Mediator

Directory Quotes

    • James Candlin is “careful and meticulous”.

 

    • Legal 500, 2021, Travel Law

James’ “attention to detail is great.”
Chambers & Partners, 2020

“He has excellent knowledge of sickness claims in particular, and is down-to-earth and very helpful. He’s very thorough, digs down into the details.”
Chambers & Partners, 2019

James “is praised for his attention to detail.”
Legal 500, 2018

“Frequently called upon for cases centring on jurisdiction and foreign law questions. He has significant experience of dealing with cross-border food poisoning, serious illness, catastrophic injury and other more sensitive claims. Because of his in-depth knowledge of medical issues, he’s a safe person to turn to for issues of causation. He has very good attention to detail and can absorb significant facts from large volumes of papers.”
Chambers & Partners, 2017

“He has huge in-depth medical knowledge as well as legal knowledge. His knowledge of chemistry and illness allow him to take a very strong view of claims abroad.”
Chambers & Partners, 2016