Clerk Details
- Clerk Name: Edward Holdstock
- Clerk Telephone: 01962 868 884
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
Inquests
For many years, Mark has undertaken the representation of interested parties at Inquests, whether in short form, Jamieson type, proceedings or the more wide ranging inquiry of Middleton type proceedings mandated by Article 2 ECHR and both with and without a jury.
Mark is well versed in the differing approaches required to represent the interests of a bereaved family as well as those of an interest party whose potential responsibility for a death may become the focus of the proceedings and is experienced in the representation of both.
He has previously been involved in cases:
Within the clinical care field, including the deaths of babies and those who lack mental capacity, concerning:
- Failure to diagnose a condition and treat a patient, for instance: cardiac failure / respiratory distress
- Failure to monitor and support patients with high care needs, for instance: tracheotomy or parenteral nutrition requirements
- Death in the course of or immediately consequent upon surgery
- Death linked to prescribed, potentially harmful, medication
- Care of the elderly, nursing home falls and neglect.
Outside the clinical negligence field, concerning:
- Highway defect
- Road traffic collision
- Industrial accident
- Light aircraft crash
- Canal boat / lock fatality
- Murder by a prisoner on licence.
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Recommendations Mark Lomas has a broad skill set encompassing industrial disease, occupiers' liability, historic sex abuse and employers' liability claims. He is adept at handling cases involving fatal accidents and catastrophic injuries. He represents both defendants and claimants, including children and protected parties. He is particularly skilled in the valuation of complex damages claims.
"Mark Lomas is extremely attentive to detail, and he can deal with difficult technical stuff."
"Mark Lomas is an excellent, experienced junior."
"Mark Lomas is a good, solid, long-serving specialist."
"Mark is an excellent advocate. He is skilled and knowledgeable in a wide range of personal injury claims and always put clients at ease with his calm and detailed approach."
Chambers UK 2026/Personal Injury/Western Bar/Band 1Mark Lomas of 海角破解版 Barristers chiefly acts for claimants in cases of the utmost severity, including those concerning catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims. He also handles a variety of surgical negligence, dental negligence and delayed diagnosis matters and is well regarded for his representation of vulnerable clients and minors. Claimants can further benefit from his substantial experience in the valuation of complex future loss claims as well as claims for provisional damages.
"I would say Mark is silk standard. He is so thorough; he is very detailed. He is very good with the clients, has a very cool head and is a real technician."
"Mark is very knowledgeable, and this is apparent when working with him. He is happy to discuss matters with claimants' solicitors to make the working relationship holistic."
"Mark is fantastic. He deals with all sorts of complex and fatal cases. He is fantastic with clients in conference, great on his feet and robust but pragmatic in his advocacy."
"Mark is an excellent advocate. He is skilled and knowledgeable in a wide area of clinical negligence claims and always puts clients at ease with his calm and detailed approach."
Chambers UK 2026/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar/Band 1Mark Lomas聽is 鈥榓 true heavyweight of the personal injury Bar鈥�, with an excellent track record in acting for claimants and defendants in high-value catastrophic injury claims.
Legal 500 2026/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - ranked Tier 1The 鈥檃lways calm and assured鈥樎燤ark Lomas聽has a solid track record in representing claimants in catastrophic injury and fatality cases.
Mark is a fantastic clinical negligence barrister. He is a fearsome advocate who always presses arguments forward in the best manner.'
Legal 500 2026/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - ranked Tier 1'Mark is a fantastic clinical negligence barrister. He has a forensic eye for detail and leaves no stone unturned in order to get the best possible outcome for his clients. He is a fearsome advocate.'
Legal 500 2026/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Midlands Circuit鈥楬e is exceptionally thorough and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of personal injury law.鈥�
Legal 500 2026/Personal injury/Leading Juniors/London BarStrengths: "Mark is absolutely awesome. He is so user-friendly and really knows his stuff. He is an experienced and knowledgeable barrister who doesn't overcomplicate things."
Chambers UK 2025/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar/Band 1鈥楾echnically very astute鈥� Mark Lomas focuses on claimant work, especially cases regarding catastrophic injury and fatality and is well known for 鈥榞iving clear and comprehensive advice鈥�.
鈥楳ark has a forensic eye for detail and leaves no stone unturned in pursuing cases. He is a tenacious advocate who fights hard for his clients.鈥�
Legal 500 2025/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - ranked Tier 1Strengths: "Mark is always excellent, universally diligent and always finds time in his busy schedule to get back with at least a helpful snippet." "Mark has assisted on many cases, always providing thorough and detailed advice."
Chambers UK 2025/Personal Injury/Western Bar/Band 1鈥楢n extremely conscientious and diligent barrister鈥�, Mark Lomas has standout expertise in brain and spinal injury matters along with fatal accident claims.
鈥楳ark is a top-notch barrister. He is experienced and his knowledge of the field is second-to-none. He has an eye for a good case and is always committed to seeing a claim through.鈥�
Legal 500 2025/Personal injury/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - ranked Tier 1鈥楳ark is incredibly thorough and is able to focus in on the key issues of a case. He has a great manner with clients and explains things in plain English.'
Legal 500 2025/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Midland Circuit鈥楢s ever, Mark is an extremely well-respected barrister in the PI field. His attention to detail is second to none.鈥�
Legal 500 2025/Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud/Leading Juniors/London BarStrengths: 鈥淗e is extremely knowledgeable, capable and thorough.鈥� 鈥淗e has outstanding attention to detail.鈥� 鈥淢ark provides an excellent service.鈥�
Chambers UK 2024/Personal Injury/Western Bar/Band 1Mark Lomas boasts 'a huge amount of experience in personal injury work'
海角破解版 鈥楳ark is a senior junior with incredible knowledge and skill. He has one of the brightest minds around and is always quick to see issues.'
Legal 500 2024/聽Personal Injury/ Western Circuit/ Leading Juniors - Tier 1Strengths:聽鈥淢ark is a real expert, unfailingly dependable with outstanding attention to detail.鈥�
鈥淗e is a very strong advocate with very strong expertise, commercial awareness and excellent client care with speed of response鈥�
鈥淗e is extremely clever but can explain the issues to clients so that they believe and trust in him from the outset. He is very strong on causation and quantum issues and his schedules of loss are always exceptional.鈥�
鈥淗e's a genuine heavyweight in personal injury. He's a very meticulous and courteous opponent."
Chambers UK 2024/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar/Band 1Mark Lomas聽is 鈥榤eticulous, conscientious and approachable鈥� and mostly acts for claimants, including children, vulnerable clients, and those who lack mental capacity, against health care professionals including, among others, dentists.
'Mark is extremely attentive to the smallest detail so you can be confident that every point will be covered so nothing can jump out and bite you in the future. His advocacy is calm and measured and produces excellent results.'
Legal 500 2024/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - ranked Tier 1'Mark is extremely thorough and gets to grips with all of the issues. He is brilliant at the conference and has a calm, reassuring manner with clients.'
Legal 500 2024/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Midlands Circuit海角破解版聽鈥楳ark聽is a leading junior who can be trusted to provide clear, accurate and detailed advice to both clients and instructing solicitors.'
Legal 500 2024/Personal Injury, Industrial Disease and Insurance Fraud/London Bar/Leading JuniorsStrengths:聽鈥淢ark is excellent with clients and shows real attention to detail.鈥�
鈥淗e's practical, knowledgeable and good with clients.鈥�
鈥淢ark is a vastly experienced and excellent junior.鈥�
Chambers UK 2023/Personal Injury/Western Bar/Band 1'A superb junior. He has a fantastic manner with clients and always provides a calm and easy reassurance. He is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in all areas of personal injury work and never phased by any complexities.'
Mark Lomas is 鈥榓 heavyweight in personal injury law鈥� and 鈥榓 consistently high quality performer鈥�.
Legal 500 2023/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit - Ranked Tier 1Mark Lomas chiefly acts for claimants in cases of the utmost severity, including those concerning catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims. He also handles a variety of surgical negligence, dental negligence and delayed diagnosis matters, and is well regarded for his representation of vulnerable clients and minors. Claimants can further benefit from his substantial experience in the valuation of complex future loss claims as well as claims for provisional damages.
Strengths: 鈥淎 hugely experienced barrister, he has great knowledge and a mature feel for cases.鈥� 鈥淢ark is impressively well versed in cross-border matters. He is absolutely superb.鈥� 鈥淢ark is cool under pressure. He is extremely knowledgeable, capable and thorough. I trust his judgement implicitly and am reassured that my client is in a skilled and safe pair of hands.鈥�
Chambers UK 2023/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar/Band 1鈥楢 robust and tenacious advocate. He bring a calm clarity to the most complex of cases and he is extremely meticulous. A match for most silks.鈥�
Mark Lomas聽is 鈥榲ery thorough鈥� and 鈥榚xceptionally good with clients, able to distill complex matters and provide sharp, candid advice with charm鈥� 鈥� 鈥榓 silk in all but name鈥�, according to instructing solicitors. Lomas continues to act in a wide range of claims against dental practitioners and healthcare professionals.
Legal 500 2023/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit- Ranked Tier 1鈥楳ark is quite simply a fantastic barrister.鈥�
Legal 500 2023/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/London Bar鈥楳ark is incredibly meticulous, and he has a unique attention to detail which is absolutely crucial in complicated cases. He is always easily contactable and up-to-speed with the latest developments in the law.鈥�
Legal 500 2023/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/Midlands CircuitStrengths:聽"A very experienced and consistently strong performer. He provides an excellent service." "He is an exceptional barrister that I would trust with any case."
Chambers UK 2022/Personal Injury/Western Bar鈥楳ark is incredibly knowledgeable, experienced, very reliable and calm under pressure. He is well liked by clients, who appreciate the clear and timely advice he always provides.鈥�
Legal 500 2022/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/Western CircuitStrengths:聽"Very efficient, detailed, and he ensures that all the information required is requested and analysed." "He inspires confidence, never panics and sees trouble before it touches the horizon."
Chambers UK 2022/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar鈥楬is attention to detail is second to none. Forensic when questioning experts. A very safe and experienced pair of hands.鈥�
Legal 500 2022/Clinical Negligence/Leading Juniors/Western Circuit鈥� An exceptional barrister: meticulous and thorough, with a brilliant, agile mind. 鈥�
Legal 500 2022/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/London BarMark Lomas is acknowledged in the Legal 500 2022/Personal Injury/Leading Juniors/Midlands Circuit edition.
Strengths: "He's incredibly thorough and extremely analytical. He's also excellent in court." "The standard and quality of his work and service is exemplary." "He's commercially minded, entirely approachable and a very sharp advocate."
Chambers UK 2021/Personal Injury/Western Bar"'A leader in his field', Mark Lomas is a key member of the personal injury team at 海角破解版. Lomas has a particular interest in catastrophic injury claims involving both traumatic brain injury and spinal injury and also in fatal accident claims".
鈥楳ark is a leader in his field and excels in all aspects of personal injury law. He is the practical, extremely user friendly, bright, tactical and focussed on the job. He brings all of the qualities of a QC.鈥�
Legal 500 2021/Personal injury/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western CircuitStrengths: "Very meticulous and knowledgeable. He leaves no stone unturned but he provides his advice in a concise and timely manner. He is very helpful and extremely easy to work with." "A sharp advocate who is commercially minded, entirely approachable and a force to be reckoned with."
Recent work:聽Represented the claimant in a claim brought against North Bristol NHS Trust concerning a delay in diagnosing a recurrent brain tumour.
Chambers UK 2021/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar鈥榁ery meticulous and knowledgeable, and leaves no stones unturned yet provides his advice in a concise and timely manner.鈥�
"Of particular note is Lomas' representation of a claimant who suffered severe neurological injury due to a brain stem tumour which had previously been removed, where the return of the tumour was missed during routine scanning and diagnosis was delayed."
Legal 500 2021/Clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western Circuit鈥楶rovides high quality, well considered and cogent advice in all cases.鈥�
Legal 500 2021/Personal injury/Leading juniors/London BarStrengths: "He's meticulous in his preparation and has the ability to immediately strike up relations with clients in very difficult situations. He's also very good in front of judges and is very thoughtful in the way he presents cases." "He is incredibly hard-working, approachable, knowledgeable and hands-on 鈥� an all-round superb barrister."
Chambers UK 2020/Personal Injury/Western Bar鈥楬e has an excellent knowledge of all aspects of personal injury law and procedure.鈥�
Legal 500 2020/Personal injury/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western CircuitStrengths: "He certainly is always very empathetic with clients and conscientious about what he's doing. It's not just 'a case' to him, it's 'their' case. He treats every case like that."
Recent work: Acted for the claimant in a case against Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, in which repeated gastrointestinal surgery was alleged to have led to the claimant's chronic pain and inability to take solid food.
Chambers UK 2020/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar鈥楢 very knowledgeable, robust litigator, who has a great manner with clients.鈥�
Legal 500 2020/Clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western Circuit鈥楬e has a very good eye for detail and is adept at schedule preparation.鈥�
Legal 500 2020/Personal injury/Leading juniors/London Bar"He provides practical solutions which inevitably result in sensible outcomes." "He's very, very detailed and leaves no stone unturned. He's also excellent with clients and is really able to bring things down to a level that clients can easily understand."
Recent work: Acted in Farmer v Hussain, a case in which the claimant was knocked down by a bus on a pedestrian crossing and suffered a head injury.
Chambers聽UK 2019/Personal Injury/Western Bar"Very competent with technical liability issues." "His advice and guidance throughout a matter, however complex, is always superb. His attention to detail is second to none." "He has excellent judgement, superb people skills, and an air of confidence but not arrogance that sets him apart."
Chambers聽UK 2019/Clinical Negligence/Western BarStrengths: "A very good cross-examiner and a tough opponent." "He is very experienced and provides a consistently high quality of service, with sound judgement and a forensic attention to detail." "An excellent senior junior who knows exactly what is needed evidentially to win difficult cases. He has聽good manner with challenging clients."
Chambers聽UK 2018/Personal Injury/Western Bar'Very consistent, high-quality performer with an eye for detail.'
Legal 500聽2018/19/Personal injury/Leading juniors/London Bar'Chiefly acts for claimants in cases of the utmost severity, including those concerning catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims. He also handles a variety of surgical negligence, dental negligence and delayed diagnosis matters, and is well regarded for his representation of vulnerable clients and minors.'
Strengths: "An excellent senior junior who knows exactly what is needed evidentially to win difficult cases and he has a good manner with challenging clients." "In mediation he is very calm, considered and carries a lot of kudos." "Excellent with clients and experts."
Chambers聽UK 2018/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar'A top-quality performer'
Legal 500 2018/19/Personal injury and clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western Circuit'Focuses on representing claimants in a wide range of maximum severity cases including those relating to catastrophic injury. His practice covers the London Bar and Western Circuit. He routinely acts in surgical negligence matters and delay in diagnoses. In addition, he is adept at dental claims.
Strengths: "Excellent with clients and experts." "He's exceptional at what he does due to his experience over the years. He instils a great deal of confidence in the clients."'
Chambers聽UK 2017/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar鈥楬e is meticulous and extremely knowledgeable.鈥�
Legal 500聽2017/Personal injury and clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western CircuitStrengths: "A superb advocate with meticulous attention to detail." "He is extremely good at analysing complex issues."'
Chambers聽UK 2017/Personal Injury/Western Bar'Extremely bright, professional and very good with clients'
Legal 500聽2017/Personal injury/Leading juniors/London Bar'An experienced practitioner whose practice includes clinical negligence and personal injury. He practises across both the London Bar and Western Circuit鈥痮n behalf of both claimants and defendants. He is frequently instructed鈥痶o handle matters鈥痙ealing with鈥痶he most serious鈥痟arm, including fatal accidents and catastrophic injury.
Strengths:鈥�"Silk material. He is very bright,鈥痝ives clear advice to his clients and鈥痠n conference鈥痠s very good at understanding the key issues in the case without getting bogged down.鈥疕e's also very good on his feet and is鈥痑 very solid advocate."'
Chambers UK聽2016/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar'Represents both claimants and defendants in a wide range of personal injury cases. He is praised for his attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
Strengths:鈥�"His strength is his analysis and judgement on how to deal with a case effectively." "He's very strong on the mathematical side of the schedules of loss."'
Chambers UK聽2016/Personal Injury/Western Bar'He has extraordinary attention to detail.鈥�
Legal 500聽2016/Personal injury and clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western Circuit'...focuses on鈥痟igh-value injury claims arising from RTAs.鈥疕e is widely praised for his ability to handle highly technical鈥痙etails in complex cases.
Expertise:鈥�"He is extremely good and his attention to detail is second to none."'
Chambers UK 2015/Personal Injury/Western Bar'...has a broad clinical negligence practice which鈥痠ncludes dental and therapy work. The range of his work covers minor鈥痶o catastrophic injuries, and fatalities.
Expertise:鈥�"He is extremely thorough and works very hard." "He has a very good turnaround time and is highly responsive."'
Chambers UK 2015/Clinical negligence/Western Bar'Meticulous and responsive'
Legal 500 2015/Personal injury and clinical negligence/Leading juniors/Regional Bar/Western Circuit'...particularly known for his deft representation of medical professionals in cases ranging from small injury claims up to catastrophic and fatal injury cases.
Expertise:鈥�淗e is excellent with clients and experts, and is a reassuring presence in a case.鈥� 鈥淗e is very efficient and definitely knows his stuff.鈥�'
Chambers UK 2014/Clinical Negligence/Western Bar'...specialises in high-value claims for catastrophic injuries, including those arising from RTAs and involving employers' liability.鈥疕e has significant experience in鈥痗laims involving complex jurisdictional issues, and is noted for his ability in negotiations.
Expertise: 鈥淗e鈥檚 experienced, dependable, has a very keen eye for detail and is always able to add value to a claim. He has a forensic knowledge of the Ogden tables - haven鈥檛 come across anybody with knowledge that in-depth. He鈥檚 a statistical man.鈥�'
Chambers UK 2014/Personal Injury/Western Bar'Pragmatic and thorough.'
Legal 500 2014/Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence expertise/South Eastern Circuit鈥榯echnical ability is excellent, and on a par with many silks鈥�.
Legal 500 2013/Personal injury and clinical negligence expertise/Western Circuit