Haroon Rashid
Year of Call: 1999
Haroon Rashid is a Barrister at Kenworthy’s Chambers who practices in
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Ranjha Law Chambers
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Saghir Munir, Baker & Coleman Solicitors
The Fatal Accident and Dependency Claims Seminar 2023 was very helpful, Thank you.
Emma Davies, OCL Solicitors
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Kenneth Lees, Curtis Law
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Barbara Ho, OCL Solicitors
A number of delegates from our team booked onto Haroon Rashid’s Personal Injury training session and their feedback was that they found the content useful and Haroon’s examples drawing from his own experience engaging.
OCL Solicitors
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Javaid Yaqub, Sandhill Solicitors
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Daniel Phelps
Haroon Rashid’s seminar was excellent! I do hope there are many more to come like this! They are most beneficial.
Sarah Idris, ASL Solicitors
Thank you to Haroon Rashid and Kenworthy’s for hosting the insightful Personal Injury seminar this afternoon.
Wasim Khan, DIN Solicitors
Thank you so much to Haroon Rashid! His training has helped me a lot with the serious injury claim I am currently working on.
Anber Qureshi, Personal Injury Lawyer
Haroon Rashid was a good speaker and his practical advice from previous cases was particularly helpful.
MBL Seminar Delegate
Thank you for the webinar, I found it helpful and informative. The explanation of how case law applies to real-life scenarios made everything much easier to understand. I’ll definitely be signing up to future Kenworthy’s webinars.
Sophie Coupland, Pabla Solicitors
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Haroon Rashid is an experienced barrister, predominantly specialising in high value complex Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence work, acting for both claimants and defendants in all types of cases across the country. He is extremely experienced in all aspects of litigation in his chosen fields.
Haroon’s personal injury practice involves working with Claimants in all aspects of personal injury and fatal accident claims. His practice involves predominantly six figure claims. He has particular experience in serious road traffic accident claims, workplace accidents, complex loss of earnings and complex care claims.
He has a wealth of experience in industrial disease work (including NIHL, VWF, asbestos-related injury, hand-arm vibration syndrome, dermatitis, respiratory disease, work-related upper limb disorders and stress-related injury), especially noise induced hearing loss. He has a deep and thorough understanding of medical causation and engineering issues that often arise in NIHL cases, having conducted many trials and cross-examined mainstream experts.
Haroon is very experienced in dealing with costs budgeting and complicated Case Management Hearings.
His personal injury practice involves all aspects of litigation including early conferences in serious injury cases to carefully plan steps to taken, ensure all avenues are explored early, evidence is gathered and necessary investigations are conducted so that the matter can be ready for negotiation, settlement or issue of Court proceedings.
Haroon regularly advises, drafts pleadings, attends JSMs/PTRs and has conferences with experts. He has special expertise in drafting complex schedules of loss in serious injury cases and gives regular seminars on how to identify losses, build the evidence in support and draft a schedule.
Recent cases of note have included fatal accident and clinical negligence claims at JSMs, succeeding in a complex care claim at trial and helping solicitors settle a complex future loss of earnings claim close of £1/2 Million.
Haroon has a Master's in Health Care & Negligence and provides free initial advice in Clinical Negligence cases to help bridge the early funding gap that claimants often encounter. He advises and drafts pleading in this difficult area of law. He has provided advice on claims including where no precautions were taken to reduce contrast-induced nephrotoxicity despite the patient being at high risk, failure by paramedics to carry out appropriate tests and failing to monitor a patient for risk of blood clots after spinal surgery leading to Cauda Equina Syndrome.
As a Serious Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Barrister Haroon Rashid is experienced in handling Coroner's Inquests, dental negligence, failed cosmetic treatments, misdiagnosis, and failures to diagnose. As a Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Barrister Haroon enjoys the challenge of tactical negotiations at joint settlement meetings where he is regularly facing senior Counsel and Silks. He has currently handling a complex case involving serious injuries to a disabled child with a lifetime future care claim.
Haroon also deals with professional negligence claims arising from under settlement of serious personal injury claims. His extensive experience in the personal injury field means he is able to quickly identify potential failures of a parties representative to properly advise, prepare and make justifiable and reasonable claims.
He regularly lectures and provides in-house training on serious personal injury and clinical negligence work.
If you have a Personal Injury or Clinical Negligence case you need advice or advocacy for, call our Civil Clerks Michael Jones or Alessandro Saporita-Clark on 0161 832 4036, email Mike@kenworthys.co.uk or Alessandro@kenworthys.co.uk or fill out our contact form.
Civil Litigation and Costs
Haroon Rashid has substantial experience and success in serious and catastrophic injury cases. His Civil Litigation practice is primarily focused on Personal Injury.
He is determined, approachable, and highly regarded for his attention to detail, skillful cross-examination, and eloquently persuasive submissions.
His cases usually involve complex care claims, complicated loss of earning claims, significant handicaps on the open labour market, and accommodation claims.
Haroon Rashid deals with road traffic accident claims, fraud, credit hire and low-velocity impact cases for both claimants and defendants. In one case Haroon successfully recovered £72,000 worth of hire charges.
He specialises in advising on fundamental dishonesty and has successfully defended allegations of fraud made against claimants. Haroon has also been involved in cases where inconsistent evidence and social media evidence has been used to demonstrate exaggeration, fraud, and fundamental dishonesty.
Haroon Rashid can draft complex schedules of loss and advise on claims involving dependency, multiple injuries, head injuries, serious back injuries, amputations, and fatal accidents.
If you have a Civil Litigation case you need advice or advocacy for, call our Civil Clerks Michael Jones and Alessandro Saporita-Clark on 0161 832 4036, email Mike@kenworthys.co.uk, Alessandro@kenworthys.co.uk or fill out our contact form.
+ Notable Cases
+Serious and Catastrophic Injuries:
- S v A - Claimant in serious road traffic accident suffered Cauda Equina Syndrome. Long-term disability. Settled at a joint settlement meeting for £1.2 Million.
- C v S R - Serious motorway road traffic accident resulting in a severe brain injury. This case had extensive medical evidence (37 medical reports) including oral evidence from orthopaedics, pain management, Neurologists, Psychiatrists, and Neuropsychologists on both sides. Haroon successfully defended allegations of fundamental dishonesty and his client was awarded damages for injuries and losses after a lengthy trial.
- D v D - Engineering Business Development Manager - serious back injury. Demanding job. Change of career. Significant loss of earnings.
- K v A - Serious back fractures, loss of career prospects as a police officer.
- T v T - Hardware Computer Engineer - serious hand injury - loss of career prospects – the cost of retraining as a software engineer.
- M v E - Pharmacy Student. Fractured lumbar vertebrae. Permanent symptoms. Loss of career prospects as a pharmacist.
- A v S - Factory work - loss of several fingers - No other qualification and limited English language skills. Large future loss of earnings claim.
- S v M - PhD student and part-time lecturer, hit by a car whilst cycling to work. Complex foot fractures causing to permanent walking and standing difficulties.
+Personal Injury:
- Z v V (2024) - Haroon's client worked at a waste disposal site where he contracted sepsis from a small cut, leading to amputation of fingers. Liability and causation were an issue, with complex engineering and medical evidence on both sides. Despite the claimant managing to return to full-time work the case was settled at trial for £300,000.
- Z v A (2015) - Fatal Accident. Deceased, university graduate, pedestrian, run over by a refuse disposal vehicle. Liability was admitted. Dependency claims.
- M v Y (2012) - Fatal accident, Belgium, defendant Belgian national, uninsured. Dependency claims for wife and children.
- A v N (2008) - Fatal accident. Complex liability issues between multiple defendants. The deceased had no qualifications and had been unemployed for three years at the time of the accident. Dependency claims. Negotiated settlement at JSM £350,000.
- W v W (2014) - Serious RTA resulting in multiple injuries. Claimant son of Afghan Army General, studying MA after completing Law degree. Intended to return to Afghanistan and take up employment under the US-led Civilian Technical Assistance Program (CTAP). Negotiated settlement at JSM £250,000.
- S v M (2015) - PhD student in RTA whilst cycling to work. Serious foot injuries (Lisfranc fracture-dislocation to the right foot with dislocation of the tarsometatarsal joints, fractures of the medial cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, cuboid and fourth metatarsal base). Ambition was to become a senior lecturer. Severe psychological reaction to physical disabilities. Now working as a research assistant. Total claim over ½ a million. JSM in September 2015.
- H v S (2015) - Employer’s liability, lack of record-keeping, lack of training, serious hand injuries, amputation of fingers, complex schedule of loss.
- K v A (2010) - Claimant sustained a serious burst fracture of the L4 vertebra. This university student intended to join the West Midlands Police Force and progress under the accelerated promotion scheme. Complex schedule of loss involving significant future loss of earnings and future costs of care. Negotiated a settlement of £350,000 at JSM.
- B v G (2008) - Serious lower back injury, pre-existing medical history, complex care claim, serious credibility allegations, difficulties with medical evidence, previous solicitors advised the claimant to accept £750 for general damages. Carefully dissected and dealt with the numerous issues eventually negotiating a settlement of £84,000.
- A v F (2008) - RTA - Brain Injury - cognitive deficit - loss of chance to study for a degree and progress career. Complex future loss of earnings claim. Dealing with DVD surveillance evidence. Negotiated settlement at £180,000.
- N v M (2010) - Significant hire claim, complex issues, multiple appeals eventually reaching the High Court. £72,000 recovered for hire charges.
+Industrial Disease:
- D v T (2014) – Noise-induced hearing loss claim, despite pre-action requests for disclosure of relevant documents, disclosure of noise assessments and other important documents after multi-track directions. Action discontinued. Haroon successfully argued that the defendant should pay the claimant's costs of the action.
+Clinical Negligence:
- I v N (2015) - Deceased suffered chest pains, paramedic attended, ECG, dismissed as ‘panic attack', left at home, died within hours. Positive liability report from Consultant Cardiologist. Deceased, businessman, leaving a wife and five children - dependency claims. Considering leading counsel.
- IG (2014) - Child delivered by way of caesarean section after failed instrumental delivery. Born with massive head injuries. Died after 2 days. Five to seven attempts with ventouse suction cup, incorrect application, too much force. Several attempts with forceps with incorrect positioning.
+ Qualifications
- Law LLB Hons
- Bar Vocational Course
- MA in Health Care & Negligence
+ Professional Memberships
- Northern Circuit
- Personal Injury Bar Association
Contact Us
To check the availability of Barrister Haroon Rashid for your Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, or Clinical Negligence case call our Civil Clerks Michael Jones and Alessandro Saporita-Clark on 0161 832 4036, email Mike@kenworthys.co.uk, Alessandro@kenworthys.co.uk, or fill out our contact form.
