Wendy Banks BA (Hons)
Membership Status: Barrister - Full Member
General Information
Qualified as both a Solicitor and Barrister, Wendy is a highly experienced personal injury and commercial litigant with a passion for client service. She understands the constraints of legal practice that solicitors work under. Having worked in client-facing roles for much of her legal career, she adopts a personable approach to building rapport, understanding what both the client and the solicitor wants and how she can assist.
Now called to the Bar, as a Barrister with Clerksroom Wendy thrives on the variety of cases she is instructed on and the challenge of successfully defending her clients in court. She regularly appears in County Courts as well as the Royal Courts of Justice, including the High Court. Using her client-facing, solicitor background, she adopts a ‘plain English’ approach to speaking clearly and keeping arguments simple and succinct so that judges, clients and everyone understands the legal position.
Areas of law
- Personal Injury
- Road Traffic Accidents
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Property/Landlord and Tenant
Personal Injury
With almost twenty years of experience in Personal Injury Law, Wendy has acted for both claimants and defendants in a wide range of fast track and multi-track personal injury cases, including:
- Employers Liability & Industrial Disease
- Road Traffic claims
- Workplace injuries
- Public & Product Liability
- Personal Injury & Road Traffic claims with Fraud/Low Velocity Impact/Credit Hire
- Complex, £multi-million cases
- Catastrophic injuries as well as Claims Portal cases
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Instructed by companies from large construction and consumer goods firms through to smaller organisations, Wendy has successfully represented cases in many aspects of commercial law, including:
- Contractual disputes
- Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Liquidation
- LPA Receivers
- Pursuit under guarantee
- Credit Agreements and Credit Hire
Languages
- French
- Spanish
- Italian
- Russian
Personal Interests
When not in court, Wendy likes to play golf, travel and is learning how to fly.
