Kate Parker

Year of Call:

2010

“Kate Parker provides a prompt and accurate response to instructions. She is always pleasant, yet professional, when dealing with clients”

Paul Hinton KTP Solicitors

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Overview

Kate has a busy advocacy and advisory practice and a particular interest in chancery and commercial Law. She has a broad experience in these areas including representing parties in the Tax Tribunal, advising on partnership disputes, acting in boundary dispute matters and advising as to resulting, implied and constructive trusts.

Kate also has a strong personal injury practice and is regularly instructed for both Claimants and Defendants. She is noted as a leading junior in the Legal 500 2018 and particularly recommended for employer’s liability, industrial disease and claims brought by prisoners.

She is also qualified to accept instructions directly from members of the public.

Education

Richard Huish College, Taunton, Somerset
Cardiff University
Bar Vocational Course, Cardiff University (Outstanding)

Appointments and Awards

2016 - Present, Personal Injury Bar Association, Executive Committee Member
2015 - Present, Head of Pupillage, Civitas Law
OUP Award for Highest Grade in Civil Practice (2010)
Angel Chambers Award for Highest Grade in Criminal Practice (2010)
Inner Temple Outstanding Achievement (2010)
Blackstones’ Award, Kalisher Scholarship (2010)
Best Advocate, Welsh National Mooting Competition (2009)

Administrative and Public

Kate has broad experience in administrative and public law, including judicial review proceedings. She also has experience in Criminal Injuries Compensation hearings and false imprisonment claims.

Clinical Negligence

Kate has a developing clinical negligence practice and advises on all aspects of such cases. She has experience dealing with expert witnesses both in conference and at trial. She is also happy to take on instructions on a CFA where appropriate.

Company, Commercial and Insolvency

Kate has a broad commercial law practice including contract disputes, misrepresentation and sale of goods. She approaches cases with thorough preparation and a practical outlook from initial advice through to trial. Kate’s recent company law instructions include partnership disputes, advising on articles of association, shares and representing appellants in the Tax Tribunal.

Kate has also dealt with a number of cases involving insolvency, debt recovery and mortgage enforcement.

Cases

Advising on a misrepresentation case where a party was induced into entering into a commercial lease on a false premises

Represented the Defendant in a claim under Section 15 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982

Advising companies on issues relating to shareholding

Urgent application for an injunction to enforce a restrictive covenant.

Application for vesting order (Insolvency Act 1986) and successfully defending a claim for wrongful/unlawful determination of tenancy

Representing parties in the Tax Tribunal

Construction, Planning and Environment

Kate accepts instructions in construction and planning law. She has given presentations for a number of local authorities in areas including: compulsory purchase orders; land assembly; sales at undervalue and state aid and community asset transfers. She has also had involvement in environmental prosecutions. Kate is particularly keen to develop her practice in construction law.

Employment

Kate has a strong employment law practice advising and acting for both Respondents and Claimants in cases concerning a range of issues including unfair and constructive dismissal as well as discrimination. She has also been instructed to hear dismissal appeals and grievances.

Kate represents Respondents in both the Jersey and Guernsey Employment Tribunals.

Cases

Successfully represented the Respondent in a breach of contract claim where issues included contract terms, notice and bonus pay

Conducted a disciplinary appeal in a case which included issues of unfair dismissal and discrimination

Successfully represented the Respondent in a racial discrimination trial, where the Tribunal rejected all complaints made.

Represented the Respondent in the Jersey and Guernsey Employment Tribunals on a number of occasions in cases including claims of unfair and constructive dismissal as well as discrimination.

Inquests and Inquiries

Kate has experience in representing interested parties at coroner’s inquests.

Personal Injury

Kate has a busy personal injury practice dealing with both fast-track and multi-track cases. She represents both Claimants and Defendants in a range of work including occupiers and employers liability, road traffic accidents and claims by prisoners and against the police. She has also advised on a number of cases concerning historic sexual abuse.

Kate has a range of experience in industrial disease litigation, including mesothelioma, NIHL and HAVS.

Cases

Instructed by the Defendant in a mesothelioma quantum hearing. Key issues included the dependency claim and whether certain income was properly considered to be the deceased’s prior to his death. It also included consideration of losses to one of the Claimant’s as a result of inheritance tax payments. The matter settled for just over £500,000.

Advising on cases concerning: Claimants lacking capacity to litigate; concerns over causation of injury; and of attribution of future loss of earnings. Such cases have also involved significant experience in dealing with expert witnesses both in conference and at trial.

Successfully resisted an appeal brought by the Defendant. The case concerned a Claimant who sustained injuries in custody as a result of a fall during a power outage. The Claimant was of reduced mobiliity at the time due to a recent hip operation. Lewis J held that in the circumstances it was not necessary for the judge to find as an objective fact that the premises was not reasonably safe, the outage had caused the premises to be less safe and the case turned on the time taken by the Defendant to restore the power and failure to communicate the urgency of the situation given the Claimant's vulnerable position. Secondly, Lewis J held that the judge at first instance had not placed too high a burden on the Defendant where the delay in response was 10-15 minutes:

Manley v G4S [2016] EWHC 2355 (QB) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2016/2355.html

Assisted in preparation for Court of Appeal case concerning contributory fault in seatbelt cases Assisted in preparation for Joint Settlement meetings. Case settled pre Court of Appeal hearing.

Property and Land

Kate has a broad range of experience in cases concerning property and land. Some of her recent instructions include:

Boundary Disputes;
Landlord and Tenant;
Implied and Constructive Trusts; and
Rights of Way

In chancery law Kate has particular experience and interest in trusts, and real property. She also acts in and advises on cases concerning easements and estoppel.

Wills, Trusts and Probate

Kate has a developing chancery practice and acts in a wide range of cases. Recent instructions include cases concerning resulting, implied and constructive trusts; wills and Inheritance Act claims.

She also has experience in advising on contentious probate matters.