News & Events
News & Events
Outer Temple Chambers has been recommended as a Top Tier Set in Health & Safety. The chambers also received 8 recommendations in the following practice areas: banking and finance, clinical negligence and healthcare, crime, employment, fraud: crime, pensions, personal injury and professional discipline and regulatory law. 14 QCs are listed in the “Leading silks” list, The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2012’s guide to outstanding silks nationwide.
News 19 Sep, 2012
Representing a number of doctors from consultant level downwards, Fiona has succeeded in ensuring that there has been no findings of impaired fitness to practice against her clients. The allegations have ranged from sexual assault on patients to dishonesty to clinical errors.
News 18 Sep, 2012
Samantha Presland appeared recently on behalf of the family of a baby girl at the inquest into her death at a hospital run by Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. Ava Parkes died at just seven hours old after one of her shoulders was trapped against her mother’s pelvis during birth (shoulder dystocia). The coroner found that the delay between delivery of the baby’s head and the rest of the body placed her under increasing stress, with her brain being starved of oxygen. The coroner returned a narrative verdict, finding that the baby took significantly longer to be delivered than the notes of NHS staff suggested. Ava Parkes’ family has called for the NHS to review their systems to ensure no repeat…
News 13 Sep, 2012
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for ‘Professional Discipline Set of the Year’ at the 2012 Chambers Bar Awards. Gerard McDermott QC has also been shortlisted for ‘Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year’.
News 10 Sep, 2012
Timothy Nesbitt and Patrick Sadd have been invited to speak at the Road Transport and Regulatory Law Conference 2012, in London on 21 November 2012.
News 9 Sep, 2012
Following a 4 day inquest, Ben Bradley, instructed by Christian Khan to represent the wife of the deceased, successfully invited HM Coroner for NW London to make 4 separate rule 43 recommendations (including a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Health). The inquest concerned issues relating to mental health assessment in custody and in the community. The coroner recorded a narrative Middleton verdict. In due course, the coroner will make various rule 43 recommendations relating to the use of holding powers whilst a formal Mental Health Act assessment is being awaited; and will make recommendations to improve communication and reduce delay when such assessments are requested.
News 9 Sep, 2012
The Birmingham Mercantile Court recently refused an application by Barclays for an indefinite stay of proceedings in an interest rate swaps mis-selling case brought against Barclays Bank plc. Graiseley Investments Limited & Ors (the Guardian Care Group) v Barclays is notable as the first case in the UK which pleads Libor misrepresentation (issued in April 2012). Barclays sought to defer pleading a defence to the claim, and pause proceedings generally, until such time as a ‘redress’ scheme, the fact of which has been agreed between the FSA and number of banks including Barclays, had run its course. The precise details of the scheme are as yet unpublished. The scheme is itself unusual for the fact that it is not one…
News 2 Sep, 2012
Following his successful presentation on the Bribery Act 2010 hosted by the British Embassy in Panama in January, Outer Temple Chambers’ barrister John McKendrick embarked upon a visit to Costa Rica and Nicaragua where he gave a series of seminars in English and Spanish on the power of transparency to overcome corruption and the importance of the rule of law in stimulating economic development.
News 15 Aug, 2012
James Counsell reports: On 26 July 2012, the Court of Appeal (Lord Judge LCJ, Lord Neuberger (MR) and Sir Maurice Kay (VP CA Civ)) announced an increase in the level of PI and other general damages by 10% to reflect the recommendations of the Jackson report and to anticipate the entry into force of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. Lord Judge, giving the judgment of the court in endorsing a settlement in the PI claim of Simmons v Castle [2012] EWCA Civ 1039, indicated that the increases would apply to all claims for damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity in personal injury, nuisance, defamation and all other torts which cause suffering, inconvenience or…
News 26 Jul, 2012
Michael Bowes QC led the prosecution team in a case brought by the FSA which resulted in six men being convicted of participating in an insider dealing ring that profited from confidential information stolen from the print rooms of two of the City’s biggest investment banks, JP Morgan Cazenove and UBS. In the FSA’s longest and most complex prosecution to date, the men were convicted of insider trading offences between 2006 and 2008 following a four-and-a-half month trial at Southwark Crown Court. The court found they made profits of £732,000. A seventh man was acquitted. The FSA on Monday called the insider dealing ring a “sophisticated and complex attempt to deal on inside information over a long period”. The case…
News 23 Jul, 2012
Chambers is pleased to announce John McKendrick has been appointed as standing junior counsel to the Advocate General for Scotland. The Advocate General, Lord Wallace QC, is the UK Government’s principal legal officer in Scotland. John will work mostly for the Secretary of State for Home Department. John is uniquely placed to act as junior counsel for the UK Government on both sides of the border: he was appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘B’ panel of counsel earlier this year. John is a specialist public and regulatory law practitioner. See further at: http://www.oag.gov.uk/oag/CCC_FirstPage.jsp
News 19 Jul, 2012
Appeal court rules that Portsmouth diocese is liable to pay for alleged wrongdoings of its clergy, paving way for similar claims. Read more: BBC Guardian
News 15 Jul, 2012
