Tim Grover

Year called: 1991

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Area of Expertise

Civil

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Personal Injury Claims, Spinal Injury Claims, Brain Injury Claims, Amputation Claims, Serious Orthopaedic Injury Claims, Serious Internal Injury Claims, Fatal Accident Claims, Fibryomyalgia Claims, Functional Neurological Disorder Claims, Employer’s Liability Claims, Industrial Accident Claims, Public Liability Claims, Clinical Negligence Claims and Sexual Abuse Claims.

Directories

Legal 500 2025:  Tier 3 (Leading Junior Personal Injury)

 

Chambers and Partners 2024

Personal Injury – Northern Bar

Band 3

Tim Grover’s practice focuses on personal injury arising from RTAs and workplace accidents. He also has expertise in claims of medical causation. Grover is regularly sought by claimants and defendants for advice on issues of liability and quantum.

Strengths

“Tim is a good all-rounder.”

 

Chambers and Partners 

Personal Injury – Northern Bar

Band 3

Tim Grover’s practice focuses on personal injury arising from RTAs and workplace accidents. He also has expertise in claims of medical causation. Tim is regularly sought by claimants and defendants for advice on issues of liability and quantum.
Strengths: “A very impressive barrister who is particularly good with clients. He is very good in conference with medical experts, and his drafting is top notch.”

‘Tim has a fantastic understanding of difficult cases, in particular technical medical issues. He is calm, unflappable, innovative and claimants trust his approach and find him easy to understand. He is responsive, calm, easy to work with and can cut to the heart of an issue quickly whilst providing a strategy to move forward. Claimants trust him and have confidence in his advice.’

Ranked: Tier 2

(Legal 500 2023) (Leading Junior Personal Injury)

 

‘Tim has an excellent manner with clients, in particular vulnerable clients. Able to get to the heart of the issues quickly and produces very detailed and skillful schedules of loss.’

Ranked: Tier 2

(Legal 500 2021) (Leading Junior Personal Injury)

“Exceptional with complex medical and technical issues” (Legal 500 2020) Personal Injury Leading Junior

“He is fantastic on his feet” (Legal 500 2018) Ranked Tier 1

“Experienced in high-value personal injury claims” (Legal 500 2016) Ranked: Tier 1

“Represents claimants and defendants in matters such as road traffic collisions, public liability and medical negligence cases” (Legal 500 2015) Ranked: Tier 1

Clerked by

Neil McHugh at Neil.McHugh@7HS.co.uk

Or alternatively email Clerks@7HS.co.uk

Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association
Association of Personal Injury

Practice Overview

Tim Grover was called to the Bar in 1991 and for the last 20 years or so he has specialised in high value personal injury claims.

Tim is regarded as being knowledgeable, thoughtful and approachable and is sought after to represent both Claimants and Defendants.

Tim is regularly instructed in multi-million pound claims and is very familiar with the legal, medical and procedural issues that frequently arise in traumatic brain injury claims, spinal cord injury claims, amputation claims (upper limb and lower limb), complex polytrauma claims and complex orthopaedic injury claims.

Unfortunately, Tim is not able to accept instructions in claims with a value of less than £100,000.00 unless there is some other interesting feature.

Tim appears in court on a frequent basis and undertakes a wide range of advocacy work, including interlocutory applications, cost and case management conferences, Multi Track trials, trials relating to quantum and causation, appeals and inquests.

In terms of written work, Tim is very experienced in drafting particulars of claim, defences, replies, Part 18 requests and skeleton arguments, as well as providing written advice on issues such as liability, evidence and quantum.

In particular, Tim is regularly instructed to draft detailed schedules and counter-schedules of loss and Part 35 questions for medical experts.

Tim served as the long time Head of Chambers’ Civil Team before standing down in 2022 and is a member of the Personal Injury Bar Association, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Headway: the Brain Injury Association and the Spinal Injuries Association.

Notable/Recent Cases

Current and Recent Cases:

R v A – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered spinal cord injury in a road traffic collision.    

M v S – A claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered severe brain injury in a road traffic collision.

B v T – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered a suffered a skull fracture and spinal cord injury in a road traffic collision.

B v M – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered severe brain injury in a road traffic collision.

W v B – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a child pedestrian who suffered severe brain injury in a road traffic incident

M v K – Multi-million pound hemipelvectomy claim (lower limb amputation through the pelvis) on behalf of a pedestrian who was run over in a road traffic incident.

G v S – Multi-million pound lower limb amputation claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who came off his motorcycle and was then run over by a car.

E v M – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of an elite level professional show jumper, with the potential to compete at the Olympic Games, who suffered serious pelvic injuries as an unrestrained passenger in a road traffic collision.

C v M – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered polytrauma, including pelvic injuries of the utmost severity, in a road traffic collision.

M v A – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered severe and limb threatening injuries to the lower leg in a road traffic collision.

C v TBPL – Multi-million pound claim on behalf of a motorcyclist who suffered severe and limb threatening injuries to the lower leg in a road traffic collision.

Other cases:

Totty v Snowden / Hewitt v Wirral & West Cheshire Community NHS Trust (Re: Service of Particulars of Claim) [2001] EWCA Civ 1415, [2001] 4 AER, [2002] 1 WLR, [2002] PIQR

Thomas v Home Office [2006] EWCA Civ, [2007] 1WLR, [2007] PIQR

Palmer v Kitley (Re: Application of a Blamire Award) [2008] EWHC 2819 QB

Stoddart v Perucca (Re: Apportionment of Liability between a motorist and a horse rider – Commended in the judgment of the Court of Appeal for “an excellent submission”) [2011] EWCA Civ 290, para 4.220 of Bingham’s Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases