Alan Rawley QC
Called to bar 1958
Date of Silk 1977
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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. By way of example he has appeared in the following leading cases:-
Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd v. Mardon (1976) Precontractual Statement.
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.
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.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association;
Common Law Bar Association
AVMA
European Circuit of England & Wales
Fellow commoner Magdalene College, Cambridge since 1991
Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Professional Negligence, Fraud & Extradition, Personal Injury, Discipline & Regulatory
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