Alan Rawley QC

Call date: 1958

Date of silk: 1977

Email: Alan Rawley QC

Clerk: Stephen Somerville

Areas of Law:	Specialist Crime, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Disciplinary & Regulation, Professional Negligence, Public Law, Commercial Fraud

Practice summary

Alan Rawley QC is a specialist in advocacy, oral and written; he has been practising at the Bar with great enjoyment for about 50 years. The fields in which he specialises are commercial fraud, money laundering, personal injury and medical law, (particularly the obscure aetiology of MS), and police law. Notwithstanding these specialisations he prefers to regard himself as practising in all types of common law as used to be the case with most barristers at the common law bar who were expected to master (and did master) the complexities of all sorts of case whether technical. scientific or otherwise.He sat as a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel and its predecessor from 1999-2008; he was for many years an arbitrator on claims to the MIB in respect of untraced drivers. He was a deputy Chairman of Cornwall QC 1971 and a Recorder of the Crown Court 1972-1999. He is a senior bencher of the Middle Temple (elected 1985) and was Autumn Reader 2004. He has been a Fellow Commoner of Magdalene College Cambridge since 1991.

Educated Wimbledon College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Served in the RTR 1956-1958.

In 2006 with Professor Brian Caddy he was appointed by the Home Secretary to conduct a review and report into the scientific evidence produced in the case of Damilola Taylor. Their report was presented to Parliament in 2007.

A selection of recent cases

Cases involving allegations of fraud:-
Blue Arrow
Guinness
R v. Stiedl & Iverson
R v. Derek Hatton

Cases involving the duties of the Police:-
Hill v. Chief Constable of West Yorkshire
R v. Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall, ex parte CEGB
Rogers v. Chief Constable of Dorset

Cases involving MS and other medical issues:-
Kennedy v. London Fire & Civil Defence Authority
Nixon v. Morris Contracting
Perry v. Post Office
Sparrow v. St Andrew's Homes (passive smoking)

Other leading cases:-
Lonrho alleged contempt of the House of Lords
Abu Hosn damages for personal injury exceeding £1,000,000 for the first time in England.
GMC -V- Dr. Addy
Doctor charged with having been found guilty of Fraud in Civil Proceedings.
Perry v Post Office
Claimant has suffered an acceleration of or an exacerbation of pre-existing multiple sclerosis as a result if trauma specifically whiplash injury
R v Stiedl, Iverson

Serious pensions fraud
Robert Nixon v F J Morris contracting Ltd
In rare or exceptional cases it can be demonstrated that trauma to the brain or spinal chord was sufficiently severe as to the blood brain barrier and to provoke the onset of multiple sclerosis
Sparrow v St. Andrews Homes
Claim by former employee in respect of asthma caused by passive smoking.
Solicitors,the Royal College of Nursing