News & Events
News & Events
The Personal Injury and Travel teams at Outer Temple Chambers are pleased to welcome Sean Driscoll from the renowned Clifford Law Firm in Chicago, who will give an introduction to the management of PI Claims in the United States on Wednesday 25th November. A leading medical malpractice and personal injury attorney, Sean will discuss and illustrate some of the features of running a PI case in a 75 minute seminar. Although there are many similarities between our respective approaches in managing a PI case there are also some significant differences. Sean has extensive trial experience. He was named one of Chicago’s Top 40 under 40 Attorneys in 2011 by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. He has also been recognised by…
Events 16 Nov, 2015
In a judgment with important implications for the law of consent in clinical negligence claims (Jones v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust), on 22 September 2015, Mr Recorder Blunt, QC handed down a judgment in favour of a 74 year old female patient. Mrs Kathleen Jones had been put on the waiting list to have surgery performed at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital by a highly respected and well known consultant spinal surgeon of her choice, only to discover, on the morning of the operation, that it had never been intended that he was to perform it. Instead, it was to be carried out by a more junior and much less experienced spinal Fellow at the hospital.…
News 30 Sep, 2015
Gerard McDermott QC and Ben Bradley (instructed by Daniel Herman, Stewarts Law LLP, Leeds) successfully represented the claimant in a 2 day preliminary issue trial pertaining to the causation of a stroke following an RTA. Mr Young, a 77 year old man, was seriously injured following a head on collision whilst driving back from a funeral. As a consequence of the accident, he went on to suffer a heart attack and then, subsequently, a spinal haematoma which rendered him paraplegic. 22 days after the initial accident (and 18 days after the heart attack), Mr Young suffered a non-haemorrhagic stroke, causing left side paralysis. The issue in the preliminary trial related to whether the stroke had been caused by the road…
News 24 Aug, 2015
Instructed by leading litigation firm Stewarts Law LLP, Christopher and Matthew advised and represented Mark Pollock throughout his claim, obtaining judgment following a “difficult” five-day trial before William Davis J. Unbroken by blindness at 22, Mark competed in ultra endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including an epic two month expedition race to the South Pole. He won silver and bronze rowing in the Commonwealth Games. Describing Mark, the Judge said: “His athletic achievements would have been notable for someone without disability. Given his blindness they were and are remarkable”. The judgment provides much needed security whilst Mark continues his journey, now as a pioneer exploring the frontiers of spinal cord injury recovery.
News 29 Jul, 2015
Jonathan Hand and Paul Rogers gave a presentation on ‘Legislation, Litigation & Regulation’ at the Headway Devon’s educational seminar on Head Injuries and Sport.
News 18 May, 2015
Running a brain injury case – the fundamentals: an essential introduction for any practitioner wishing to handle a case involving a brain injury. This one-day course will help you address the difficulties of representing people with injuries that might not always be visible but which can have a devastating affect on their personality and behaviours, with severe consequences for them and everyone around them. 11/06/2015, Manchester, Crowne Plaza, 9:30am – 5:00pm, registration from 9:00am. For full details and to book click here.
Events 18 May, 2015
Care and support under the Care Act 2014 – an introduction to Part 1 of the Act The Care Act 2014 replaces a patchwork of other pieces of social care legislation with a single system to establish eligibility to care and support for adults with needs and for carers. This session will cover the new “wellbeing” principles underpinning the Act, who is entitled to an assessment, how the new national eligibility framework will be applied, the legal status of care and support plans, rights to personal budgets and direct payments and how these new rights can be enforced. Transition to adult care and support under the Care Act 2014 The Care Act 2014 contains important new rights for children with…
Events 9 Apr, 2015
Outer Temple Chambers and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability invite you to The Reality of Brain Injury from a Scientific and Legal Perspective. An insightful and informative seminar reflecting on the complexity of acquired brain injury, from two distinctly different standpoints. Date: Thursday 29th January 2015 Time: 14:00 – 17:00 Venue: The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Treasury Building, EC4Y 7HL Schedule David Westcott QC – Introduction Dr Sophie Duport, RHN – “Brain Injury and the RHN through the eyes of a Neuroscientist” Nathan Tavares, OTC – “The challenge of obtaining appropriate compensation for a Brain Injury survivor” Dr Kudret Yelden, RHN – “Brain Injury and the RHN through the eyes of a Rehabilitation Consultant” Jacqueline Cave – “A…
Events 8 Jan, 2015
Sarah Crowther is set to speak at the APIL International meeting, Wednesday 3rd December 2014.
Events 28 Nov, 2014
Tom Gibson recently wrote an article – ‘A Costs Budgeting Horror Story’ – about a (true) story of a costs budget being struck out for a technical error in an early post-Jackson personal injury case. The article was published in PI Brief Update and is available at http://www.pibriefupdate.com/content/law-journal-summaries/news-category-2-53514/2250-a-costs-budgeting-horror-story-tom-gibson-outer-temple-chambers Since the article was published, several other stories of costs budgets being struck out – or not struck out – for exactly the same technical error (with a budget’s statement of truth wording) have emerged from county courts around the country. With several appeals currently in progress, 2014 looks set to be a busy year for early post-Jackson case law.
News 22 Jan, 2014
We are delighted to announce that last night (3 Oct 2013) at the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards, Outer Temple was declared ‘Personal Injury / Clinical Negligence Chambers of the Year’ and that David Morris was awarded ‘Professional Discipline Junior of the Year’. The Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence teams earlier this month won the inaugural Legal 500 UK Award 2013 confirming Outer Temple’s dominance in this area of law. Outer Temple was also a finalist in the category Professional Discipline Set of the Year, a category won in 2012.
News 3 Oct, 2013
We are delighted to announce that Outer Temple was declared Chambers of the Year in the category of personal injury and clinical negligence in the inaugural Legal 500 UK Awards 2013. The teams are also short listed in the same category by Chambers & Partners in the UK Bar Awards.
News 2 Oct, 2013
