News & Events
News & Events
Sarah Crowther of Outer Temple is jointly holding a one day APIL accredited course on running accidents and illnesses abroad claims. The course, designed as a practical legal guide for practitioners, serious injury specialists and general practitioners, takes place on Tuesday 11th October 2016 in London and on Tuesday 1st November 2016 in Manchester. It represents a valuable opportunity to learn about new challenges in travel and the law, international conventions, the practical issues in dealing with a foreign accident claim, what next for travel law, and much more. Sarah is a specialist in all claims for injury, illness or accident involving an international element. She has acted in many landmark cases over direct actions against motor and public liability…
News 30 Sep, 2016
The allegations made this morning against Tommy Wright, the Barnsley assistant manager, are the latest in what is likely to be a continuous media release of corrupt activities in football. Whatever one’s views on the investigative and reporting practices of the newspapers whose main concern may be to sell more copy, there is little doubt that the spotlight is being thrown again upon what seems to be an endemic problem in the ‘people’s game.’ Supporters of this great game should welcome this spotlight. It is important that Sam Allardyce’s assertion that, “entrapment has won” should not be seen as anything other than an attempt to ameliorate the desperate situation he was in. All of the allegations that have been made,…
News 29 Sep, 2016
David Pope represented Barclays Bank Plc in its successful application for summary judgment in Marsden v Barclays Bank Plc [2016] EWHC 1601 (QB), an interest-rate swap mis-selling case. The Claimant alleged that Barclays had mis-sold two interest-rate swaps totalling £2.25 million and had failed properly to review the sales within the review process established by agreement between Barclays and the Financial Conduct Authority. Barclays denied the claim and applied for summary judgment primarily on the basis that any arguable cause of action against it had been compromised by a settlement agreement. Mr. Justice Phillips gave summary judgment in favour of Barclays and dismissed the claim. He held that the settlement agreement did cover all the Claimant’s arguable causes of action.…
News 23 Sep, 2016
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to have been nominated in two categories for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016. Within Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence, Cara Guthrie has received nominations for Junior of the Year and Fiona Horlick is nominated for Junior of the Year within Professional Discipline. The Awards ceremony will take place on 27th October. To instruct either Cara or Fiona please contact Paul Barton, Business Development Director, Health team.
News 20 Sep, 2016
Mark Pollock, a blind adventure athlete and well-known motivational speaker, is now paraplegic after falling through a second floor window of a residential property. Instructed with Christopher Wilson-Smith QC by Ben Rogers, Partner at Stewarts Law, Matthew Stockwell acted for Mark Pollock in his successful claim against the householders’ insurer. The trial attracted widespread media attention in the UK and Ireland. The case raised a number interesting issues, in particular the duties owed to disabled visitors by an occupier, which are discussed in an article co-written by Matthew and Ben Rogers. Click here to read the article.
News 16 Sep, 2016
13 Outer Temple QCs are listed as “Leading silks” and 38 junior barristers as “Leading juniors” across 15 areas of law. Our thanks go out to our clients and referees for their ongoing help in ensuring that so many Outer Temple barristers are now ranked in this year’s edition of Legal 500. We are immensely proud of this achievement which confirms our position as a leading set at the UK Bar. Legal 500 describe Outer Temple Chambers as having ‘a huge range of talent available’ with ‘incredible strength in depth’ in financial services, employment, pensions and healthcare – related cases and members that combine ‘highly professional service with a friendly and inclusive attitude’. Furthermore, we are delighted that clients have said that ‘the clerks understand the commercial…
News 15 Sep, 2016
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to announce that it has been successful in its bid to provide external legal services to Lambeth and Southwark Councils for Employment and Education Law matters. This strengthens our relationship with numerous Boroughs of London and other Councils following further success in tender bids for the London Borough Legal Alliance (LBLA), whose new Framework started earlier in the year. Outer Temple provides high quality Barristers for Employment, Education and Public Law matters.
News 14 Sep, 2016
Kate Davenport QC speaks about the current gender approach in the legal profession in her recent LawTalk article. Throughout her comprehensive analysis, Kate refers to the July 2016 United Kingdom Bar Standards Board’s report on Women at the Bar and to the Summary of Josh Pemberton’s report on Experiences in Retention of New Zealand Junior Lawyers. Both reports reveal the fact that, in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, being a woman has negative effects both on developing a legal career and on the retention prospects of young professionals within the legal world. It is also apparent that young women lawyers have no real senior female role models to relate to. According to Kate, this is both a consequence of…
News 9 Sep, 2016
Fiona Horlick acted for Harlow District Council in their prosecution of G4S Cash Solutions Ltd for serious breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. G4S were sentenced on 2nd September 2016 at Chelmsford Crown Court. The Judge found a ‘flagrant breach of the law’ following G4S’s persistent failure over a number of years to protect its staff and visitors from the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria which carries a risk of death from Legionnaires Disease. G4S, a company with a turnover of £250 million, were fined a total of £1.8m and ordered to pay all the prosecution costs. The Judge, in applying the new sentencing guidelines, found very high culpability coupled with a statistically low risk…
News 7 Sep, 2016
Sarah Crowther has recently authored an article in the Journal of Personal Injury Law, in which she examines EU law provisions that have obliged the UK to provide the victims of road traffic accidents (RTAs) with a direct right of action against the insurer of the vehicle involved, including in RTAs with a cross-border element. She proceeds to review case law addressing the jurisdiction issues that may be raised in direct rights cases and considers how the UK’s withdrawal from the EU might affect the direct rights regime. Publication: Journal of Personal Injury Law, J.P.I. Law (2016) No.3 Pages 180-188. The article can also be found on Lawtel (subscription required).
News 31 Aug, 2016
’22 QCs on the hot employment law issues for 2016-17′ is a forthcoming equality, diversity and discrimination law conference, presented by an outstanding team of 22 top Queen’s Counsel. The event – described as a “unique one-stop conference for anyone advising on employment or discrimination law” – takes place on 29-30 September 2016 in London, and addresses key discrimination law topics likely to be of concern in 2016. Andrew Short QC is expected to give a talk on “Employment law and occupational pensions”. Andrew’s employment practice covers everything from complex or sensitive dismissal and discrimination cases through TUPE to high value contract, restrictive covenant, fiduciary duty and equal pay claims. He has lectured on pensions, discrimination and employment issues and is on…
News 18 Aug, 2016
Oliver Powell, led by the Attorney General of Anguilla, appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the matter of the Superintendent of Prisons & Another v Hamilton [2016] UKPC 23. The Respondent, Neville Hamilton, was dismissed as the Deputy Superintendent of Prisons by the Governor of Anguilla, to whom charges that the Respondent had been in neglect of duty under s.2(d) of the Code of Discipline had been referred by the First Respondent. The power to refer charges to the Governor under s.7(2) of the Code was successfully challenged by the Respondent in judicial review proceedings before High Court of Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Anguilla Circuit. The High Court quashed both the decision to refer the…
News 8 Aug, 2016
