News & Events
News & Events
The Global Arbitration Review (GAR) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) held an event in London this month to mark the launch of the new GAR-CIArb Seat Index – which is now live and ready to access. The launch, held at Reed Smith in London on 15 November, featured a panel discussion by CIArb’s Doug Jones, Lord Goldsmith QC and Professor Janet Walker of Outer Temple Chambers, who led work on the project, following an introduction by GAR’s publisher David Samuels. The index aims to provide one-page summaries of the favourableness of individual arbitral seats assessed against a range of standard criteria. In its first version, it covers six frequently used and well-established jurisdictions for arbitration: Hong Kong, London, New York,…
News 28 Nov, 2018
Tim Nesbitt QC in the Privy Council on appeal from a decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in relation to the test of “good character” for entry to the legal profession. Tim has been appearing today (on instructions from Simons Muirhead & Burton) in the Privy Council on an appeal from a decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, upholding the denial of admission of someone to the Bar of Grenada. The background to the case, which is very high profile in the Caribbean, is the Grenada Revolution of 1983, and specifically the conviction of 17 Defendants, known as the “Grenada 17” of the murder of the then Prime Minister and nine others in the course of…
News 24 Oct, 2018
Fiona Horlick, instructed by Jane Lang BLM Cardiff, has again successfully defended a consultant psychiatrist charged with historic sexual abuse with regard to his male patients. She has appeared for the doctor in all three sequential Crown Court trials. Fiona ran a successful Abuse of Process argument to stay proceedings in the latest trial. Also, Fiona, instructed by Julie Matheson at Kingsley Napley, headed up the prosecution team on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (the IFoA) in the disciplinary hearing of Mr Oketch, a South African actuary. The IFoA is the global regulator of actuaries. The case involved pensions litigation in Kenya and serious professional misconduct on the part of Mr Oketch. Mr Oketch was erased at…
News 11 Oct, 2018
Drone-related news stories range from stories about the use of drones by emergency services, for example helping firefighters tackle the Californian wildfires, to tragic stories, such as that of the attempted assassination of the Venezuelan president through the use of explosive drones. In the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Military of Defence has tested a fleet of drones that can detect the presence of chemical weapons. In short, drones come in many shapes and sizes. This short article discusses the regulation of drones used for commercial and recreational purposes only (i.e. not combat drones). Amongst other things, it addresses: the current position in the UK; EU drone regulations; and for comparison purposes, drone regulation in the UAE. “Internationally,…
Legal Blogs 17 Sep, 2018
In proceedings brought before the Lloyd’s Enforcement Board, two senior underwriters at a Lloyd’s Managing Agent have each accepted charges of discreditable conduct relating to improper appropriation by them of confidential information of commercial value to their employer. Background Mr Christopher Larkby and Mr David Larkby both worked as senior underwriters in the High Risk team at ERS Syndicate Management Limited (‘ERS’), underwriting on behalf of syndicate 218 until 2017, when they joined another insurance firm (not regulated by Lloyd’s). As persons who worked for a Lloyd’s managing agent, both individuals were and remain within Lloyd’s enforcement jurisdiction in respect of the acts committed during the relevant period. Over a period of a year prior to their respective departures, Messrs…
News 29 Aug, 2018
Tim Nesbitt QC successfully defends former partner and costs manager of a law firm in ground breaking disciplinary case about solicitors’ fees in clinical negligence actions. Tim has just concluded a three week trial before the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal in which, for the first time, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority has sought to prosecute solicitors for misconduct said to arise from the setting of success fees and hourly rates in clinical negligence and personal injury actions undertaken under CFA’s. The law firm in question (a well known personal injury practice in the North East) had undertaken clinical negligence claims against the NHSLA on what was described as an “industrial scale”, applying a blanket 100% success fee to all claims without undertaking a…
News 6 Aug, 2018
We are delighted to have been shortlisted in Legal Week’s British Legal Awards 2017 – Chambers of the Year category. The British Legal Awards hosted by Legal Week in association with The City of London Law Society, takes place at the end of the LegalWeek Connect, and is due to be attended by 1,000 lawyers. All 29 categories have been carefully chosen to reflect the ever-complex and challenging work of business lawyers at law firms, within legal departments and at the Bar. Key awards this year include The City of London Law Society Lifetime Achievement Award, Chambers of the Year, Law Firm of the Year, General Counsel of the Year, Editor’s Award: Law Firm Leader of the Year and the Legal…
News 20 Oct, 2017
Fiona Horlick has successfully defended a consultant cardiologist and general physician at Woolwich Crown Court. The consultant was charged with ten sexual offences against three patients including assault by penetration. After a 3 week trial, the consultant was acquitted of all charges by the jury. The case garnered considerable media interest. Please see BBC (here and here) and MailOnline (here and here) Fiona was instructed by Eastwoods Solicitors and the MDU. For information about Fiona’s expertise, see this page.
News 27 Sep, 2017
The High Court has just delivered judgment in DVSA v Rowe, an appeal launched by the relevant executive arm of the Department of Transport in relation to an issue about the range of commercial vehicle operators who were the subject of the regulatory system for commercial transport prescribed by EU law. Patrick Sadd and Tim Nesbitt who are both recognised leaders in the field of commercial transport regulation, appeared respectively for the Department of Transport and the Respondent.
News 4 Apr, 2017
Mr Charles O’Sullivan, formerly a member of an LLP, member of Lloyd’s and a managing director of the special risks division of Besso Limited, was found guilty of charges of discreditable conduct. A disciplinary tribunal was told by James Counsell QC representing the Council of Lloyd’s, how Mr O’Sullivan, whilst acting as a placing broker in a series of insurance transactions between 2009 and 2012, deliberately misled other parties as to how much and what type of remuneration was being or had been earned by his company for financial gain. In all, he earned for those companies sums in excess of US$1.7m as a result of his deception. The Tribunal banned him from Lloyd’s, declared him unfit to be a member…
News 2 Mar, 2017
Fiona Horlick, instructed by Eastwoods Solicitors, successfully defended a doctor charged with criminal offences of sexual assault. Fiona represented him at the trial at Wood Green Crown Court trial where he was acquitted of all charges under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 by the jury. The doctor, a general practitioner of long standing, was accused of sexually assaulting an elderly patient during a home visit and sexually assaulting a nurse when he was on duty at a hospital. Fiona has a particular expertise in defending professionals charged with criminal offences across a range of criminal offences including fraud, violence and sexual offences.
News 16 Nov, 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
