News & Events
News & Events
Outer Temple Chambers was delighted to welcome both valued clients and members of the Bar at last night’s launch of the ‘APIL Guide to Accidents Abroad’, held at our London offices. General Editor: Sarah Crowther QC Contributors: Daniel Clarke, Gerard McDermott QC, Eliot Woolf QC, Ian Denham, Chloë Bell, Harry Trusted, Will Young and Pierre Janusz. The evening was undoubtedly the ideal opportunity to rub shoulders with the great and the good of the Travel law world. It was also a great time to speak to our Travel law team who were out in force. The book – a joint APIL and LexisNexisUK publication – is available to purchase from LexisNexis and via Amazon. Sarah is a specialist in all claims for injury, illness…
Events 20 Sep, 2018
Our Cross-Border and International claims team is hosting a seminar on The Package Travel & Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. Join us for the session on Tuesday 10th July from 17:00 to 18:15, at our London offices, to include a Q&A section followed by drinks. The panel speakers include Sarah Crowther QC, Dan Clarke and Ian Denham, all specialists in claims for injury or accident involving an international element. During this informative seminar, the team will discuss the effect the new regulations will have on package travel claims, including the new definition of ‘package’ and in particular, will discuss the outcome of X v Kuoni: when will a tour operator be liable in future? If your caseload includes jurisdiction disputes in…
Events 9 Jul, 2018
Our Cross-Border and International claims team is hosting a seminar on jurisdiction in cross-border tort claims on Monday 12th March 2018. The session will be held from 5pm to 6pm, at our London offices, and will include a Q&A section followed by drinks. The panel speakers include Sarah Crowther QC, Dan Clarke and William Young, all specialists in claims for injury, illness or accident involving an international element. During the session, they will discuss the outcome of the jurisdiction challenge in the Brownlie v Four Seasons Supreme Court decision, and what it means for jurisdiction in international claims. If your caseload includes jurisdiction disputes in civil and commercial matters of a non-contractual nature, including personal injury and economic tort claims, and you…
Events 8 Mar, 2018
Chambers is immensely proud and delighted to congratulate four members, Tim Nesbitt, Nathan Tavares, Eliot Woolf and Sarah Crowther on their successful applications to Silk. This is a fantastic personal achievement for all four and very well deserved public recognition of their skill and expertise, especially given the highly competitive nature of the lengthy competition process. Tim was called to the Bar in 1991 and has over 20 years’ experience acting as an advocate and adviser in a number of areas of commercial, regulatory and public law. These are often linked to and involve issues arising out of the commercial transport and financial services sectors. Nathan specialises in clinical negligence, catastrophic personal injury claims, product liability, and professional negligence and was…
News 15 Dec, 2017
Sarah Crowther writes for LexisPSL on the issue in question, and says that now is a sensible time for employers to review dress code policies to ensure that they meet business needs and expectations. Sarah’s employment analysis summarises two cases involving the wearing of headscarves at work. She discusses what the Court of Justice decided, on the interpretation of whether or not an employer’s dress code is proportionate for the aim of achieving neutrality. For the full article please see the following: Company dress codes—neutrality over diversity (Achbita v G4S; Bougnaoui v Micropole). Sarah Crowther has a public law and human rights practice, which focuses on discrimination, especially in the supply of goods and services and employment law. She has appeared successfully in…
News 4 Apr, 2017
The pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers is holding a conference on Tourism and Sports EEGs, on 18th of November 2016, in Dublin. Sarah Crowther will be participating in the event and is due to speak on “Claims arising from sporting activities on holidays”. Many other interesting and topical subjects will be debated on this occasion. These include: international food poisoning claims, liability for damages arising from terrorist attacks, safety standards in various countries hotels and much more. To book your place, please click here.
Events 6 Oct, 2016
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
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
Outer Temple Chambers is proud to be main sponsor of APIL’s second ‘Accidents Abroad’ conference. The event takes place on Thursday, 3 November 2016, in London with speakers from the Outer Temple Health team, Gerard McDermott QC, Sarah Crowther and Matthew Stockwell. Discussions will cover topics of high importance including the impact of Brexit on cross-border claims, class actions and collective redress, claims against the MIB and Foreign Guarantee Funds, serving proceedings in cross-border PI cases, periodical payment orders and security of funding in the international claims context and more. The programme, full list of speakers and registration form are available here.
Events 17 Aug, 2016
Sarah Crowther appeared as junior counsel for the respondent victim of a road traffic accident in Greece in 2011. Tiffany Moreno, a young mother was pushing a buggy along the side of a road in Greece, when she was struck by an uninsured vehicle which failed to negotiate the bend. She suffered devastating injuries to her legs, resulting in a below knee amputation of one leg. Tiffany is a Welsh resident and brought her claim against MIB under regulations passed by the UK in 2003 in order to comply with the 4th Motor Insurance Directive in respect of victims of uninsured vehicles in Europe. MIB argued that its responsibility was limited to acting as if it were the guarantee fund…
News 4 Aug, 2016
In 2015, Ashers bakery was found to have discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation and political opinion. The complicated so-called ‘gay cake’ case seemed to be nearing its conclusion, when the last-minute postponement of the hearing extended the appeal issues. The Attorney General then intervened into the case claiming there was a potential conflict between Northern Ireland’s equality legislation and European human rights laws and that the case raised constitutional issues arising from the devolution arrangements in Northern Ireland. Further to this intervention, a special hearing will now take place on Wednesday, 3rd March 2016, and the appeal itself is re-listed to start on 9th May 2016.
News 5 Feb, 2016
Sarah Crowther has recently successfully acted in a multi-vehicle road accident case in which a man died and another has been injured after an uninsured driver crashed into them in Thais, France. The men were waiting at the side of the road for a wheel on their car to be changed by a local recovery truck driver when the accident took place. The claim has been made by the wife of the man who died in the accident and a judgment was handed down on Friday, 27 November 2015. Dingemans J found that, according to the connecting factors of the accident under article 4(3) of the Rome II Regulation, the correct law for that claim was French law. Applying principles…
News 4 Dec, 2015
