Martin Bare

Career

Since I qualified as a solicitor in 1984, I have over 35 years’ experience of claimant personal injury litigation.

Over the years, I have been involved with several professional associations and non-profit organisations. I am a Past President and an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), was a member of the Spinal Injuries Association panel and The Law Society PI Panel and life member of Headway.

Currently I am a Fellow of and accredited trainer of APIL Training (previously known as the College of Personal Injury Law, an accredited college), CLT and “in-house” by the Law Society for CPD. I have lectured widely on an expansive range of legal topics including industrial diseases to many types of legal professionals, including District Judges.

Also, I am co-author of Jordans’ “Model Pleadings and Applications” (IBSN 978-0-85308-949-0) which has now entered its Second Edition. I was a contributor to the authoritative “Occupational Illness Litigation” Thomson Reuters (ISBN 978-1-84661-7244-2) and to Sweet and Maxwell’s “Journal of Personal Injury Law” (see e.g. ISBN 978-1-84703-865-8).

Until recently I wrote 5 chapers of loose-leaf Kemp & Kemp, Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure (ISBN 978-0-421-90510-8) and am therefore was on its’ Editorial Board.

I have given evidence to the Special Public Bill Committee of the House of Lords on the Third Party (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 and the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee of the House of Commons on the subject of director’s duties and workplace health and safety.

I led the Claimant group at the Minster Lovell Civil Justice Council event that, with the Senior Master , selected District Judges, insurers and their lawyers, formulated CPR 3DPD. I was privileged to be able to express to MOJ officials and have taken into account my views upon an early draft of what was later to be Section 3 of the Compensation Act 2006 and happy to have played my active role in propagating what was later to become Part 4 of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008.

I was integral to the Montague Hotel success fee agreement behind what was then CPR 45 Part IV and, as events transpired, was ultimately responsible, on the Claimant side, for the successful conclusion of the One Aldwych/RCJ agreement founding what was then CPR 45 Part V.

I thought it an honour to be invited, in 2009, to join The Times newspaper Law Panel “an advisory body of 100 of the country’s most prominent barristers and solicitors” as one of only three personal injury specialists.

Greatest Professional Achievement

I am one of a very limited number of solicitors to have recovered over £10 million in damages in less than 10 cases. I’ve been involved in cases as wide ranging as the Tenerife air disaster, the Bradford Fire, York carriage works asbestos and both the Selby and Hatfield Rail disasters.