News & Events
News & Events
Ben Compton QC represented Virgin Media Plc at the recent inquest into the death of baby Tommy Hollis who was killed when a lamppost support was cut by mistake and fell on his pram during a road work scheme in Chiswick.
News 24 May, 2012
Will Young, instructed by Irwin Mitchell LLP, recently acted pro bono for the families of three British teenagers tragically killed in a coach crash in Thailand in June 2011.
News 23 May, 2012
Richard Hitchcock, James Rickards, David Grant and Keith Bryant all appeared before Vos J in Industrial Acoustics Company Ltd v Crowhurst & Ors, the latest in a growing line of summary judgment applications for rectification of pension deeds and rules all featuring members of Outer Temple Chambers.
News 17 May, 2012
Fiona Horlick recently appeared in the Privy Council representing a man, Raymond Drysdale, convicted of murdering a solicitor in Jamaica. It was an appeal against conviction. Mr Drysdale was charged, together with three other people (one of whom was also appealing), of the murder in which the solicitor had her throat slit in her office in Jamaica. The appeal raised important issues of law including severance, identification and good character. Fiona was instructed by George Brown of Reed Smith, the international law firm. Judgement has been reserved.
News 16 May, 2012
The judgment in Shah v HSBC Private Bank is now out. After three interlocutory appeals in the Court of Appeal in which the Bank largely succeeded, they have now succeeded completely at trial. Richard Lissack QC and Nicholas Medcroft acted as Leading and Junior Counsel for the Bank. The Claimants put their claims for in excess of $300,000,000 on two bases: first, that the Bank was in breach of contract in failing to process their payment instructions; second, that the Bank was in breach of contract in failing to provide them with information as to the facts that had caused it to fail to effect the first and second transactions, documentary evidence of the same, the name of the authority…
News 15 May, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has successfully defended a Preston GP who was a paediatric specialist in the GMC accused of lying and perjury. The GP faced allegations in connection with two patients. The first was a 3 week old baby who died the day after the GP saw the baby in February 2009 of a very rare condition, myocarditis.
News 14 May, 2012
Andrew Short QC, leading Naomi Cunningham, has secured a significant victory in ongoing mass equal pay litigation against Birmingham City Council. The Council argued that a number of claims were defeated because the claimants had agreed to the modified grievance procedure, which required them not only to state their grievance, but to set out the basis for it – and they had failed to set out the basis.
News 1 May, 2012
Ben Bradley, instructed by Anthony Gold to represent the family of the deceased, successfully invited HM Coroner for NW London to make a rule 43 recommendation to the London Ambulance Service (“LAS”). LAS currently automatically cancels ambulances in circumstances where patients are triaged into the lowest category of severity. The coroner will ask LAS to review the manner in which it communicates this cancellation to service-users. At present, service-users could be left with the impression the ambulance is still on its way. The coroner was not critical of LAS but has recommended that their systems be reviewed. The coroner also found that failings on the part of one of the NHS Trusts involved in the care of the deceased, contributed…
News 24 Apr, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has defended a single handed general practitioner at a fitness to practice panel hearing in the General Medical Council. The doctor faced numerous failings including alleged dishonesty in retrospectively altering clinical notes as well as failings concerning missed referrals, not following up blood test results and not having a proper system to action over 500 pieces of correspondence found in his room.
News 24 Apr, 2012
Outer Temple Chambers was strongly represented in a bespoke Bar Council delegation visiting New York (April 15 – 19, 2012), attending the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law conference. Richard Lissack QC, Gerard McDermott QC and Andrew Spink QC were all participating in a visit organised by the Council to promote the advocacy and advisory services of the English Bar to a key US marketplace. The visit featured various speaking and networking events, providing opportunities to engage with US businesses, in-house and other counsel, diplomats and legal bodies such as the NY State Bar and UN. Outer Temple Chambers has a developing international dimension, with offices in New York and Abu Dhabi, as well as its London HQ and offices in…
News 16 Apr, 2012
Consistency, certainty and clarity of outcome in the Supreme Court. Alison McCormick of Outer Temple Chambers is junior counsel for the claimant in Action 1, Durham v BAI, in the multi party test action “The Employers’ Liability Trigger Litigation”. Almost five and a half years since the claim form was issued in Durham v BAI, on 28th March 2012 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment. The case is composed of six lead actions involving four insurers which resisted claims made against them in respect of the fatal asbestos related disease of mesothelioma in which there can be an interval in excess of 40 years between exposure to asbestos and manifestation of the disease. The Supreme Court was asked to decide the…
News 27 Mar, 2012
We are delighted to announce that Christopher Gibson QC, a specialist in medical law and professional negligence, has moved from Doughty Street Chambers to Outer Temple Chambers. He will complement our clinical negligence team coordinated by David Westcott QC and our personal injury team coordinated by Christopher Wilson-Smith QC. Christopher practises in all types of high value clinical negligence and personal injury cases. He has extensive experience in cases involving injuries of maximum severity including, in particular, cases of cerebral palsy involving birth injuries to children where allegations are made in respect of the obstetric and neonatal management. He has expertise in psychiatric cases, involving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder cases where the injury is secondary to clinical negligence, as well as…
News 25 Mar, 2012
