Patrick Sadd
Called to bar 1985
Clerk Graham Woods Tel: 020 7353 6381
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Patrick Sadd has established practices in four contrasting areas: in personal injury and clinical negligence, in professional negligence claims against solicitors and barristers, in claims for compensation arising out of physical and sexual abuse, and in UK and European road transport regulatory law.
Compensation claims
Patrick acts for claimants in all aspects of compensation claims, addressing diverse issues such as long term and permanent disability requiring daily care, discrete brain damage, case management, periodical payments, local authority provision, deputyship and fatal accidents. Since 2002 he has been cited as a leading junior in personal injury. He was involved in a successful claim against the MIB in the Court of Appeal - Watson v Richardson
In clinical negligence, Patrick is instructed by both claimants and health trusts. He undertakes a broad spectrum of work, covering GP, hospital and private practice. Recent instructions ( 2008 ) have included a succession of actions arising out of still-births and misdiagnosis of sexual abuse in a child protection investigation, failed termination and overlooked fractures. He is one three counsel ( all from outer temple) presently acting on behalf of several hundred children misdiagnosed with epilepsy in the Leicester area
He lectures to GPs on aspects of clinical negligence.
He is a retained adjudicator in ongoing medical device litigation.
He appears at inquests and before CICAP.
Claims for mishandled litigation
He has long experience of claims arising out of mishandled personal injury or clinical negligence actions and as recently as February 2008 lectured on the assessment of loss of opportunity in claims against solicitors.
Historical and recent abuse claims
Since 2000 Patrick has represented a large number of adults abused as children either in institutions in foster care or in community settings. He acts for vulnerable adults abused in long-term psychiatric hospitals and in residential care. Patrick is instructed in multi-party actions, and was junior in the legal team that successfully negotiated compensation claims on behalf of 80 men abused over a period of 30 years in an approved school ( Forde Park ), in an early group action of its kind. He has been to the House of Lords to argue limitation provisions in relation to abuse dating back to 1940s and 1950s. ( McDonnell v The Congregation of the Christian Brothers ). He is a contributor to Child Abuse Compensation Claims (Sweet & Maxwell 2002). Since 2004 he has represented Irish citizens living in the UK who have made claims under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 abuse in industrial schools throughout Ireland between 1940 and 1980, travelling to Dublin to appear before the Redress Board, the Review Committee and in the Irish Supreme Court. He has provided a 20 page written submission to the Irish Commission into Child Abuse on the conduct of the Sisters of Mercy at Goldenbridge. He has lectured to APIL on the Redress Scheme. arising out of sexual and physical
More recently he has written in the New Law Journal ( February 2008 ) and the APIL PI Focus (March 2008) on the implications of the Lords’ decision in A v Hoare. He contributed to BBC’s Law in Action in March 2008.
EU Road Transport Regulation
By contrast , Patrick (along with Tim Nesbitt also at Outer Temple ) is regarded as one of the leading barristers in the UK specialising in EU road transport regulatory law. He appears regularly at environmental and disciplinary public inquiries on behalf of haulage and coach operators, and for bus companies on bus compliance and registration. He advises operators on all aspects of compliance and has written a model driver’s handbook for a national food distributor. He visits depots nationwide and carries out legal audits of systems. He appears in the Transport Tribunal and administrative court, as well as the magistrates and crown courts in relation to falsified records.
He is a CEDR accredited mediator and a mediator on the Lawassist Panel.
He is takes on work from the Bar Pro Bono Unit.
Member of : APIL, PNBA, AVMA, ACAL
Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, Public Law, Discipline & Regulatory, Public Access, Children
What the directories say
Legal500 2008 'strong when advising, drafting and on his feet'.
