Kerstin Boyd

  • Practice Groups
  • Family
  • Personal Injury
  • Career
  • 1979 Called to the Bar

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Profile

Kerstin has two broad areas of practice: Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence, and Family.

Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

She has a specialist Personal Injury and clinical negligence practice.She is listed in the Legal 500 as a leading junior in both personal injury and clincial negligence/health care. She also heads up the Tanfield Personal Injury practice group. She undertakes work on behalf of both Claimant and Defendant in a wide variety of claims, including Road Traffic and highway claims, industrial disease, RSI, occupational stress and employer's liability generally.

She is regularly instructed on behalf of the London Fire Brigade in claims claims arising out of the workplace and recently represented the London Fire Brigade at the 7/7 inquest. She also undertakes defence work for Local Authorities dealing with accidents involving highways, schools and employers liability.

She has built up a strong practice in clinical negligence claims, dealing with a wide variety of claims on behalf of Claimants.

Family

Kerstin also has a strong reputation in family work with emphasis on matrimonial finance.  She is regularly instructed in high value cases.

 

Experience

Personal Injury

  • Has represented the London Fire Brigade at several Inquests, and dealt with resulting claims under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976
  • Has extensive practice in employers liability claims, asbestos related claims, occupational stress/harassment and road traffic/highway claims
  • Typically deals with high value claims
  • Extensive experience in serious brain injury cases

Clinical Negligence

Cases have included failure to diagnose haemochromatosis, mismanaged births, ruptured cervix, failure to supervise psychiatric in-patient, lack of informed consent, delayed diagnosis, cosmetic surgery and spinal injuries.

Family

  • Has extensive experience in high value matrimonial finance involving businesses and cases requiring detailed analysis of finances
  • Regularly deals with cases involving more limited assets where the search for resolution is often more challenging.
  • Trusts of land/cohabitee property disputes
  • Schedule 1 Children Act cases

Significant Cases

Personal Injury:

London Bombings of 7 July 2005 (Inner London Coroners Court) 2010, presided over by Lady Justice Hallett: acting on behalf of London Fire Brigade

Jonathan Edward Woolley v Essex County Council [2006] EWCA Civ 753 CA

Anthony Eaton (Administrator of the Estate of Michael Eaton, deceased) v James Latham PLC [2004] EWHC 214 QB

London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority v (1) Meritor Light Vehicle Systems (UK) Ltd (2) Renault Trucks UK Ltd (3) Carltonloco Ltd QBD (TCC) [2003] LTL 12/9/03

Cullin v LFCDA; Sheehan v LFCDA CA [1999] PIQR P 314

Crown River Cruises Ltd v (1) Kimbolton Fireworks, (2) LFCDA [1996] 2 Lloyds Rep 533

Brian Eric West v Versil Ltd & Others CA [1996] LTL 3.7.96

Smoker v LFCDA HL [1991] 2 ER 449

Family:

W v W (periodical payments: variation) 2010 2 FLR 985

L (A child) EWCA Civ 196

Foster v Foster [2003] EWCA Civ 565

B v H [2002] LTL 25.3.03

H v H Fam Law [2002]

H v P [1993] Fam Law 515

Memberships

Member, Personal Injury Bar Association
Member, Family Law Bar Association

Qualifications

BA (Cantab) (Girton College, Cambridge)

Directory Quotes

Kerstin is listed as a leading junior in Personal Injury in the Legal 500 2008 and 2011.

Kerstin is listed as a leading junior in Clinical Negligence and Healthcare in the Legal 500 2009 and 2010.

Kerstin is listed as an expert in Personal Injury in Legal Experts 2008, 2009 and 2010.