Katherine Awadalla

Barrister Profile

Katherine practices in all areas of personal injury law, including accidents at work, road traffic accidents, highways claims, accidents abroad and fatal accident claims. She has a particular interest in psychiatric injury and occupational stress claims.

A member of PIBA, she lectures on procedural and substantive issues arising in personal injury litigation. Katherine also advises on problems relating to motor, public and employers’ liability insurance.

Katherine has a growing professional negligence practice, in particular, clinical negligence. She has advised on various issues including delayed diagnoses and negligent treatment.

Katherine acts for both claims and defendants and is happy to consider instructions on a CFA basis.

Called to the bar in 1998, Katherine previously worked in publishing and was awarded a Queen Mother Scholarship in 1997 and a Fox Scholarship in 1998 by Middle Temple.

Qualifications

University of Durham, LLB
London School of Economics , LLM

Professional Membership

PIBA 
PNBA

Publications

Author Stress Claims (Butterworths 2004)
Contributor to Oliver & Dingemans Employers’ Liability Cases (Butterworths 2003)
Contributor to Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service
Contributor to Butterworths Civil Court Precedents

Interesting Cases

Waseem Sarwar v Kamran Ali & MIB [2007] EWHC 274 and [2007] EWHC 1255 - Katherine appeared as junior counsel to Richard Methuen QC representing the MIB in this early case in which the court exercised its discretion to award periodical payments under Damages Act 1996, s 2. This case also dealt with the factors to be taken into account by the court when assessing life expectancy.
McKenny & Anor v Foster (t/a Foster Partnership), [2007] unreported, HHJ Cockcroft - Claim for damages following a fatal accident when a cow, recently separated from its calf, escaped from a field and onto a road. The court (and later the Court of Appeal) considered the application of the Animals Act 1971.
Pennington v Surrey City Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1493 - Katherine represented Mr Pennington, a fireman, who recovered damages for injury sustained in the course of extracting a driver from a vehicle in a serious road traffic accident in circumstances where the Fire Service had failed to provide training contrary to Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, reg 11.
Edmonds v Lloyds Bank [2004] EWCA Civ 1526 - An appeal in which the duty to mitigate loss was considered in the context of a failure to undergo recommended hydrocortisone injection treatment.
Inez Brown v Robinson & Sentry Service [2004] UKPC 56 - on appeal from the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, the issue in this case was vicarious liability for an intentional fatal shooting
Edmonds v Lloyds Bank [2004] EWCA Civ 1526 - an appeal dealing with the issue of failure to mitigate loss by refusing to undergo recommended hydrocortisone injections