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Practice Profile
Personal Injury
Practice is evenly split between Defendants and Claimants with a particular emphasis on employers’ liability. Has particular experience in disease claims in particular mesothelioma.
Regularly instructed on behalf of Local Authorities , NHS Trusts and major insurers in high-value claims. Further, has significant experience of litigation on behalf of government departments during the course of 7 years on the Treasury Solicitor’s Provincial Panel.
Recent/current instructions include:
• Successful defence of a road traffic claim which had resulted in serious head injury. Value of claim if successful was in the region of £750,000.
• “Lost-Years” claim for Claimant suffering from mesothelioma. Settlement achieved at £180,000.
• Tripping claim in respect of a Police Constable. Settled at trial for £100,000.
• Successful appeal to the Court of Appeal on behalf of a building contractor following a finding of liability by a Circuit Judge after a two-day trial in relation to injury caused by vandal damage.
• Road Traffic Accident claim on behalf of a Claimant resulting in severe multiple injuries. Settlement recently reached at £350,000.
• Successful defence of claim on behalf of a local authority in respect of an accident suffered in an historic monument.
• Represented the Welsh Ambulance Trust in Wales’ first group litigation – “Gower Chemicals” case.
General Common Law
Property, building and general commercial disputes in the Mercantile, Chancery and Technology and Construction courts. Instructions have included:
• The first trial heard in the Cardiff Commercial Court – contractual dispute with an Italian Company in relation to the non-delivery of a fairground ride.
• 4 day trial in the Birmingham Technology and Construction Court – contractual dispute in relation to defective cladding on a factory.
• Claim in relation to theft of funds from a solicitor’s client account and attempts to trace the same into property subsequently purchased;
• Claim in respect of agents fees in relation to the sale of a villa in Tuscany;
• Claim in relation to trespass to land by means of tipping of large volumes of spoil.
Inquests/Public Law
Numerous appearances on behalf of major insurers at inquests relating to industrial deaths. Has also undertaken a number of inquests in relation to death in custody on behalf of the prison authorities.
Appeared on behalf of Chief Constable in an application before the Divisional Court for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (Littlejohn v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2008] EWHC 301 (Admin)
EDUCATION
• King’s College, University of London LLB (2:1)
MEMBERSHIPS
• Wales Commercial Law Association
• Personal Injury Bar Association
• Welsh Personal Injury Lawyers Association
POSTS
• Course designer and course tutor for company law module – Bar Vocational Course, Cardiff University (Academic Year 2007).
• Pupil Supervisor and Head of Pupillage Committee
• Treasury Solicitor’s Provincial Panel (2000-2007)
DIRECTORY ENTRIES
• Recommended in respect of personal injury litigation in “The Legal 500 – 2007/2008” and “Chambers UK – A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession – 2008
