Charles Obrien

Background

About Charles Obrien

I specialise in high value and catastrophic personal injury litigation representing mainly clients who have suffered brain injuries but also amputations, spinal cord damage and fatal claims. I act for Claimants and Defendants. I am dual qualified as a solicitor in the UK and an attorney in Washington State in the US. I have practised law in the UK, the US and across the Caribbean. I am listed in the Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer. Notable recent cases include- getting High Court approval of a settlement for a severely brain damaged bed-bound client - settling for over £1 million a difficult below the knee amputation claim complicated by Type 1 diabetes - obtaining over £3.2 million for an above the knee amputee against the MIB - recovering £1.2 million for an above the elbow amputee following a motorbike accident - settling in excess of £1 million on a periodic payment basis for a client with a spinal cord injury - acting for world top 5 snooker player who dropped down the rankings following an accident - settling for for an elderly client suffering a non-union fracture of her tibia - obtaining for a family of a successful builder killed in a road traffic accident - recovering for the wife of a retired man killed in a cycling accident - securing for a property developer suffering with PTSD after a motorbike accident - settling a case for a brain injured client after the forks on his bicycle collapsed - obtaining over for a Heathrow baggage handler after his Union solicitors turned his case down - acting for top radio DJ following an accident with his personal trainer