News & Events
News & Events
We are overjoyed to share that Outer Temple Chambers’ Health & Safety team have been awarded ‘Set of the Year’ at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025. The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 13th November 2025 at Old Billingsgate, London. This celebration shines a spotlight on those who continue to set new benchmarks of excellence in advocacy, strategic client service, and thought leadership at the Bar. The Bar Awards honour the work of sets and individuals across the country based on the research for the recent edition of Chambers UK Bar. The award is testament to the team’s hard work over the last 12 months. We are delighted to be recognised for our expertise and excellence in Health &…
News 14 Nov, 2025
Barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, Harry Lambert, has been published in New Law Journal’s latest article, where he explores the impact of Neurotechnology on inquests. This is the first consideration of neurotech and inquests ever, worldwide. The growing ubiquity of wearable technology and the rapidly advancing field of neurotechnology are generating an unprecedented flood of neural data, which could have profound implications for coronial law. Advances in neurotechnology could soon allow coroners to analyse brain activity to determine intent, cause, and sequence of death—redefining how inquests are conducted. Harry Lambert reports, “As neurotechnology increasingly embeds itself in everyday life, the coroner’s court faces a new frontier—where neural data could illuminate the mysteries of…
External Publications, News 13 Nov, 2025
Chambers and Partners UK Bar have today launched their 2026 Guide and we are delighted to share the highlights from this year’s rankings, including two new Band 1 awards for Personal Injury: Animal Claims and Cryptocurrency. We are thrilled to share that Outer Temple Chambers has been awarded 12 set rankings in this year’s Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide, including 4 new set rankings, and over 110 individual rankings. This is our best set of rankings yet, as our individual rankings see 14 new entries and 27 elevations, and 2 new Band 1 set rankings. A huge congratulations to all of our barristers and clerks for another year of excellent results. A particular thank you to all our clients…
News 16 Oct, 2025
OTC is delighted with an outstanding set of rankings in the Legal 500 UK 2026 Guide
News 7 Oct, 2025
James Leonard KC was invited to speak on LBC Radio’s ‘The Legal Hour’, hosted by Daniel Barnett. James Leonard KC joined Daniel Barnett on Saturday 12th July 2025 on LBC’s Radio Show. James Leonard KC discussed Health & Safety, and on the show interacted with callers who spoke of personal experiences about what factors relating to Health & Safety affect them at work. Callers spoke of heat as one factor, and Weil’s disease as another. James’ Health, Safety & Environmental work leads to appearances in Courts at every level but his caseload includes the most serious cases for high profile clients. They invariably include fatalities in the workplace, allegations of Gross Negligence Manslaughter against individuals, and offences under the Corporate…
News 16 Jul, 2025
Fiona Horlick KC and Oliver Powell KC successfully argued for a costs order in the sum of £494,024.18 for the CEO of a care home provider. Background: Between 2016 and 2017, 5 service users, who were residents at two care homes owned by a care provider, passed away. It was the Crown’s case that the care home provider failed to discharge a duty under s.3 HSWA 1974 on 5 occasions, and that the CEO had consented or connived in the commission of those offences, or that the alleged offences were attributable to his neglect. From the outset of the investigation, the CEO vehemently refuted the allegations, and the matter was listed for a 10-week trial at Teesside Crown Court. Prior…
News 21 May, 2025
Oliver Powell, led by Prashant Popat KC of Henderson Chambers, and instructed by Mike Grant and James Muller of Weightmans, acted for a very large organisation. Their client was indicted before Chester Crown Court on two counts pursuant to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Following service of a 27-page Defence Statement, expert report and written representations, Cheshire Fire Rescue Authority (‘CFRA’) agreed to offer no evidence against their client. Background On 8 August 2019, the Beechmere retirement village in Crewe was destroyed by fire. More than 150 residents lost their homes and possessions. The fire was one of the biggest ever attended by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (‘CFRS’) with 70 firefighters deployed at its height to bring…
News 28 Feb, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Oliver Powell and Ben Bradley have been elevated to the ranks of King’s Counsel (Silk) in the 2024 King’s Counsel competition Appointments to King’s Counsel do not come easy and are offered to a very carefully selected shortlist of applicants just once a year. Following a recommendation by the Lord Chancellor, The Right Honourable Shabana Mahmood MP, The King has approved her recommendation that Oliver Powell and Ben Bradley should both be appointed His Majesty’s Counsel. The King’s Counsel Selection Panel made its recommendations to the Lord Chancellor after considering very carefully the evidence from application forms, assessments, and interviews with applicants. The Lord Chancellor accepted the Panel’s advice and made her recommendations to…
News 24 Jan, 2025
James Leonard KC and Oliver Powell, instructed by Simon Belfield of DWF, appeared on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (‘MCA’), at Southampton Crown Court. After a 4 ½ week trial, a jury unanimously convicted Intrada Ships Management Ltd of failing to take all reasonable steps to secure that a ship was operated in a safe manner. Background On 13 December 2021, at about 3.25am UK time, the Scot Carrier, a UK registered general cargo vessel, and the Karin Høj, a Danish registered barge, were in the Baltic Sea just off the South coast of Sweden. They had just reached the southerly end of the Bornholm Traffic Separation Scheme (‘TSS’) and were both heading in the same south-westerly direction.…
News 13 Dec, 2024
Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2025 have today launched their 2025 Guide and we are delighted to share the highlights from this year’s rankings, including two Band 1 awards for our Pensions Law team and Travel Law team. We are delighted to share the news that Outer Temple Chambers has yet again been awarded 9 set rankings in the 2025 Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide and over 110 individual rankings. In what is our best set of rankings ever, our individual rankings see 12 new entries and 16 elevations, whilst we are delighted with two new Band 1 set rankings. A huge congratulations to all of our barristers and clerks for another year of excellent results. A particular thank…
News 17 Oct, 2024
James Leonard KC represented the RNLI in a high profile inquest after the deaths of a 12 and 17 year old who drowned after an “intense” rip current at Bournemouth Beach in March 2023. Following an Inquest, Dorset senior coroner Rachael Griffin said she was satisfied nothing further could have been done to prevent their deaths following the “unexpected anomaly of nature”. She praised the “brave, prompt and determined intervention” of the lifeguards on duty, without which “more lives would undoubtedly have been lost”. James Leonard KC represented the Royal National Lifeboat Institution whose general manager, Peter Dawes stated, “Sunnah and Joe followed all the safety advice on the beach but still lost their lives – this is a stark…
News 15 Oct, 2024
The Legal 500 2025 rankings have just been announced and Outer Temple Chambers is delighted with another year of excellent results including a Tier 1 Pensions ranking We are proud to announce that we have been recognised as a Top Tier Set in Crypto & Blockchain Assets again, as well as achieving a Top Tier Set ranking in Pensions. These Tier 1 rankings mean we are now ranked for excellence in nine practice area rankings with 73 individual members ranked across 27 practice areas. A huge congratulations to all of our barristers and clerks within these teams for another year of excellent results. A particular thank you to all our clients and colleagues for taking the time to provide references.…
News 2 Oct, 2024
