Barry Osborn
Barry has specialised in personal injury claims since 1993, initially for one of the largest direct insurers in the country, giving him a particular insight and understanding of how insurers deal with claims. He has represented claimants exclusively since 1998.
Barry deals with all types of personal injury cases including fatal claims, brain injury and other injuries caused in road traffic accidents, accidents at work, public liability accidents, accidents abroad, occupiers liability cases and the victims of criminal acts via the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Barry believes that the priority when initially instructed is to attempt to get his clients early rehabilitation where possible.
Recent settlements Barry has negotiated include:
- Brain Injury CICA claim- £440,000
- Brain Injury claim – £4 million
- Brain Injury claim – £1.2 million
- Fractured Ankle injury – £250,000
- Loss of tip of thumb claim – £40,000
- Liability trial before HHJ Saffman and subsequently settled post successful liability trial.
- Arachnoid Cyst caused by trauma – £322,000
- Settled an Orthopaedic injury case for a Claimant with pre-existing learning difficulties. Approved by Master Eastman at over £700,000, who stated “I have no hesitation in approving the settlement reached in this complicated case”.
Barry is accredited and a member of The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Brain Injury Group (BIG).
He is the former Vice Chair of Headway Medway (brain injury charity) and is Company Secretary for Kent Brain Injury Forum (KBIF).
Outside of work Barry enjoys playing 5 aside football and keeping fit.
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He is very hard-working, diligent and thoughtful in his approach. He is on top of the detail and makes strategic decisions.
“Jan is one of the most client-friendly, ‘savvy’ solicitors I’ve ever met. A solicitor who knows exactly how to navigate a case to the best possible outcome. In my case, being able to contain my over- zealous demands, which, without her control, could have come to nothing. Jan has this great command of the law and knows exactly, how to execute it, in the interests of her client. I have her to thank for everything. My family members and I are all with her excellent firm, Osbornes Solicitors LLP, ‘a chain, solicitors and right-hands, with no weak link.”
"I have found her to be extremely efficient, She is very fair in her dealings with all parties and she navigates the conflicting demands imposed on her by opposing parties in a supremely fair fashion."
