Fiona Ross

Ranked Tier 1 as Leading Junior in The Legal 500 (2026) for Personal Injury.

“A very approachable barrister who is great at cross-examination.”

– Legal 500 (2025)

Fiona has been ranked as a leading junior in The Legal 500 since 2015. She maintains a broad personal injury practice but specialises increasingly in serious life-changing injury claims at home and abroad. Fiona represents seriously injured claimants, insurance companies, health trusts and local authorities. She is instructed in claims arising out of injury or death at work, in public places as well as serious road traffic accidents (including MIB claims). She is also experienced in dealing with cases involving chronic pain conditions, including Chronic Pain Syndrome, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Somatoform Pain Disorders.

Fiona is known for her thorough preparation, robust cross examination style and her sensitive and sympathetic approach when communicating the issues to clients.

Fiona also has a wealth of expertise in representing both Claimants and Defendants in claims under the Package Travel Regulations and is increasingly sought-after in high-value, large scale and group claims.

Her forensic attention to detail and unflappable manner mean that she is highly sought after by insurers to act in road traffic claims involving serious allegations of fraud, both in relation to liability and in relation to the injuries suffered. She has successfully represented insurers in committal proceedings relating to fraudulent claims.

She is involved at each stage of the claims process from advisory work, drafting pleadings, schedules of loss and Part 35 questions, attending conferences with clients and experts, through to attending CCMCs, JSMs, trial and approval hearings. Fiona is also regularly instructed to advise on and/or represent parties at contentious and substantive applications.

Fiona is currently a contributor to Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service. She regularly throughout the year provides lectures, and occasionally mock trials, to her instructing solicitors, insurers and others within the industry on case law updates and procedural developments. Alongside a full time practice, she taught for many years (from 2005) on the part time BPTC course at BPP Leeds and is a fully qualified advocacy trainer for the North Eastern Circuit.

Public Access

Fiona may accept Public Access work, where she can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Ranked as a Leading Junior in the 2026 edition of Chambers & Partners for Motor Insurance Fraud.

“Fiona Ross is noted for her impressive suspicious and fraudulent claims defendant side practice. She has particular experience representing her clients in fundamental dishonesty and credit hire claims” 

– Chambers & Partners 2025

Fiona has worked at the forefront of fraudulent personal injury claims since the early 2000’s. She has been ranked as a leading junior in The Legal 500 since 2015. She has substantial experience of the numerous forms of suspicious/fraudulent claims in employer’s liability, public liability and travel insurance fraud cases. For many years Fiona worked exclusively on behalf of insurers in motor fraud cases involving fabricated, staged and induced (‘slam-on’) accidents, bogus passengers and phantom witnesses, low-velocity impacts (LVIs), exaggerated personal injury and damage claims and rehabilitation fraud. She is also often asked to advise in cases involving organised fraud rings and has acted in many credit hire claims ranging from low value to complex high value claims. Fiona continues to deal with cases of this nature on a weekly basis and is instructed on a repeat basis by most of the country’s leading firms specialising in civil insurance fraud and many of the UK’s insurance companies.

She is well known for her strong trial advocacy, particularly her forensic cross-examination style and down to earth approach when communicating the issues to clients and solicitors.

She is involved at each stage of the claims process from advisory work, drafting pleadings, schedules of loss and Part 35 questions, attending conferences with clients and experts, through to attending CCMCs and trials. Fiona is also regularly instructed to advise on and/or represent parties at contentious and substantive applications.

Fiona is currently a contributor to Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service. Fiona regularly throughout the year provides lectures, and occasionally mock trials, to her instructing solicitors, insurers and others within the industry on case law updates and procedural developments. Alongside a full time practice, she taught for many years (from 2005) on the part time BPTC course at BPP Leeds and is a fully qualified advocacy trainer for the North Eastern Circuit.

Public Access

Fiona may accept Public Access work, where she can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.