News & Events
News & Events
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to host the PNLA conference for the third consecutive year. Join us for ‘The Ultimate Round up – Professional Negligence & Liability’ on Thursday 3rd October here at Outer Temple Chambers, London. You are invited to join David. E Grant KC, Andrew Spink KC and Elaine Palser, who will be speaking alongside an array of fellow professional negligence experts throughout this full-day conference. Other speakers include William Flenley KC (Hailsham Chambers), Kathryn Jenkins (The Tumaini Trust), Matthew Pascall (Temple Legal Protection), Thomas Pangbourne and Rachel Auld (Indemity Law), David Osborne (Fraser Dawburns), Sue O’Brien and Sara Benbow (Property Mediators). The event will be chaired by Jayna Patel, Partner at Dutton Gregory and PNLA South of England…
News 16 Sep, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that the application window for our winter mini-pupillage is now open. Find out how to apply below. The application window for our mini-pupillage is now open; we are accepting applications up until 13th October 2024. Our winter mini-pupillage will run from Monday 9th December – Wednesday 11th December 2024. During the course of a three-day programme, mini-pupils attend a series of talks given by members of Chambers, participate in an advocacy exercise, and are taken on a walking tour of the Royal Courts of Justice and/or the Temple. The talks are designed to give mini-pupils an insight into Chambers’ core practice areas and into life at the Bar in general. There are also…
News 2 Sep, 2024
Keith Bryant KC and Naomi Ling presented a talk at the Bristol Pensions Law Conference on ‘Severing the bad from the good: a new approach where amendments are made in breach of a fetter following Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees’. The video and slides are now available. Earlier this year, Outer Temple Chambers hosted an afternoon of talks at our Pensions Law Conference Series. Our leading pensions barristers covered various topics around pensions law. This was a hybrid event and the recordings are now available online. Following an introduction from Andrew Spink KC, Keith Bryant KC and Naomi Ling presented their talk on ‘Severing the bad from the good: a new approach where amendments are made in breach of a…
News, Webinars & Recordings 27 Aug, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to share that Fiona Horlick KC has been shortlisted as Professional Discipline – Silk of the Year at the 2024 Chambers UK Bar Awards. The awards evening will take place on Thursday 14th November 2024. The awards evening taking place on Thursday 14th November at Old Billingsgate, recognises the nations top legal professionals for their outstanding legal work and achievements. We are delighted that Fiona’s hard work within this area has been recognised and as a result of this, has been nominated as as Professional Discipline Silk of the Year at the 2024 Bar Awards. Ranked as a Band 2 Silk, Fiona is described in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide as a respected…
News 23 Aug, 2024
Outer Temple’s Ian Denham has succeeded in obtaining judgment for his client at a preliminary issue High Court trial arising from a high-speed collision on a country lane between two racing vehicles. Ian Denham has succeeded in obtaining judgment in this preliminary issue which concerns a high-speed road traffic collision. The two vehicles were driven by a Mr Angelov and Mr Atanasov. The cars collided resulting in the death of Mr Angelov and with Mr Atanasov and the occupants of the vehicle driven by Mr Angelov sustaining serious injury. Both drivers were found equally culpable for the collision. Ian was instructed to act for Mr Atanasov in Yordanov v Vasilev and Atanasov v Vasilev [2024] EWHC 1496 (KB). He was instructed…
News 13 Aug, 2024
Outer Temple’s Clinical Negligence specialist, Ian Denham, has written an article for PI Focus on establishing breach of duty when clinical negligence occurs abroad. Ian Denham’s article has recently been published in the July edition of the PI Focus magazine. PI Focus magazine is full of essential insights for personal injury and clinical negligence solicitors, barristers and experts. In his article, Ian discussed the topic of establishing a breach of duty when clinical negligence occurs abroad. These types of claims are rapidly increasing with the rise of media reports of dissatisfied individuals who travel to receive medical treatment and therapies. Ian covers the standard of care in cross-border clinical negligence claims, which in turn, raises the question as to what…
News 7 Aug, 2024
We invite you to join our expert panel for a specialist workshop on The Sanctions & Debarment Frameworks of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and International Financial Institutions (IFIs), taking place on Thursday 26th September 2024. MDBs and IFIs have a fiduciary duty to protect their funds and projects from prohibited practices such as fraud and corruption. Are you fully aware of how your company may be at risk of exclusion or debarment from the World Bank even if a minor fraud by a subsidiary, subcontractor or agent is committed? Do you know how to protect your company? Or how to conduct any subsequent investigation? Join our team of international experts for this specialist MDB workshop on Thursday 26th September to…
Harry Steinberg KC and Aliyah Akram have achieved a groundbreaking agreement in this group action on behalf of thousands of military personnel who suffered noise induced hearing loss whilst in service. The settlement was approved by the High Court on Monday 8 July. Working with Simon Ellis and the Military team at Hugh James Solicitors, Harry and Aliyah negotiated this landmark agreement in which the MoD has made significant concessions on issues of limitation and duty of care. Since the MoD accepts that the Hugh James group of claimants have been negligently exposed to excessive noise during service, thousands of former servicemen and women will now be able to claim compensation for their injury. The agreement follows seminal decisions in…
News 15 Jul, 2024
Fiona Horlick KC and Oliver Powell, instructed by Andrew Oliver of Andrew Jackson LLP, appeared on behalf of a care home provider at Teesside Crown Court. Following applications made by Fiona and Oliver (& other co-defending counsel), the CPS offered no evidence. Background: between 2016 and 2017, 5 service users, who were residents at two care homes owned by the care provider, passed away. The 8 defendants faced an indictment containing 19 counts arising from the circumstances in which the 5 people died. The deceased were all residents in care homes. The matter was listed for a 10-week trial. The case: Broadly distilled, it was the Crown’s case that the care home provider failed to discharge a duty under s.3…
News 26 Jun, 2024
Outer Temple’s sanctions law specialists, Alex Haines and Henry Reid are providing a sanctions training session alongside the British Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday the 18th of June 2024. The training session will focus on the Russia sanctions regimes implemented by the UK and US. The sessions will cover: Designated persons, ownership and control, financial and trade sanctions, enforcement, and compliance within the UK context; The role of sanctions in litigation and arbitration, focusing on contentious cases; and An overview of secondary sanctions in the US context. The training aims to ensure that companies comply with specific regulations and standards, enabling employees to understand and adhere to these requirements. By doing so, the training helps minimise legal risks and…
News 14 Jun, 2024
Outer Temple’s Helen Pugh, James Leonard KC and Charlotte Elves were instructed in Commercial Bank of Dubai SC & Ors v Al Sari. The Court of Appeal handed down judgment which clarifies the law on alternative service in contempt proceedings. The Court of Appeal have clarified the law on alternative service in contempt proceedings in an important judgment handed down in Commercial Bank of Dubai SC & Ors v Al Sari [2024] EWCA Civ 643. The Court of Appeal accepted the submission of the 1st Appellant (represented on appeal by Helen Pugh of Outer Temple Chambers) and 2nd Appellant (represented on appeal by James Leonard KC and Charlotte Elves) that an order permitting alternative service in a previous phase of…
News 13 Jun, 2024
Andrew Spink KC and Justina Stewart have succeeded in securing a re-trial in (1) Gate Mena DMCC (2) Huobi Mena FZC v Tabarak Investment Capital Ltd and another DIFC CA-002-2023 (‘Huobi v Tabarak’). In a much anticipated judgment, the DIFC Court of Appeal (Justice Black KC giving the leading judgment) has reviewed the law in relation to digital assets, and developed DIFC jurisprudence in other areas. The DIFC recently enacted wide-reaching legislative reform, in the form of the DIFC Digital Assets Law and Law of Security and associated amendments to numerous DIFC laws (a project on which Andrew and Justina, alongside other OTC members, were instructed). These bespoke and innovative legislative reforms, alongside the Court of Appeal’s decision in Huobi…
News 13 Jun, 2024
