Kate Edwards

Called to bar 2006

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Kate Edwards provides high quality legal services across the spectrum of chambers' work areas. She has a creative legal brain and good rapport with clients. She has been described by one instructing solicitor as "one to watch"!

Kate undertakes commercial, VAT and pensions work and was recently led by Michael Patchett-Joyce in the VAT & Duties Appeal Tribunal. She appeared in the House of Lords in Chargot & ors v HSE [2008] UKHL 73 in an appeal of a conviction under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. She has recently been instructed to advise in a potential class action for professional negligence, a property trust dispute and various breach of contract claims. She is a member of COMBAR.

Notable recent instructions in the personal injury and clinical negligence fields include junior briefs in a multi million pound brain injury claim, an action by three members of the same family for psychiatric injury and high value spinal injury and cerebral palsy claims. Kate also appears regularly in the county court in a range of personal injury matters from infant settlement approvals to fast track/multi track trials. She provides liability and quantum advice and is regularly instructed to produce complex schedules of loss. She has spent time seconded to Stewarts Law LLP working on brain and spinal injury claims, and is a member of the Personal Injury Bar Association.

In the employment field Kate has experience with a wide range of cases including unfair dismissal, discrimination, part-time pensions, TUPE and protective awards. Published articles include The Power to Improve: enhanced rights upon TUPE transfer (2008) 158 NLJ at 619. She is standing counsel to the British Association of Journalists.

Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Commercial & Business, Employment & Discrimination, Fraud & Extradition, Pensions, Financial Services, Personal Injury

Publications

Article co-authored with Harry Trusted about the use of expert witnesses in personal injury trials

Employment law article about the case of Regent v Power [2007] EWCA Civ 1188 called The Power to Improve: enhanced rights upon TUPE transfer (2008) 158 NLJ at 619.