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Katherine Deal KC KC
Position
Barrister specialising in personal injury work with a particular focus on travel litigation including aviation claims. Has acted in a number of leading cases in this area including Homawoo v GMF Assurances (C-412/10) (in which the CJEU definitively confirmed the date of entry into effect of Rome II); Keefe v Mapfre & Hoteles Pinero Canarias [2013] EWHC 4279 (QB) (on jurisdiction over a foreign tortfeasor, currently on appeal to Court of Appeal); Middleton v Allianz & Middleton [2012] EWHC 2287 (QB) (on applicable law of claim and additional claim for overseas accident), Jones v AGF [2010] ILPr 4 and Thwaites v Aviva [2010] Lloyd’s Rep IR 667 (jurisdiction and applicable law in direct claims against foreign insurers);Healy v Cosmosair [2005] EWHC 1657 (QB) (catastrophic accident in course of package holiday in Portugal); Bygrave v Thomas Cook [2003] EWCA Civ 1631; Jones v Sunworld [2003] EWHC 591 QC (leading case on scope of package); Edmunds v Simmonds [2001] 1 WLR 1003 (applicable law under PIL(MP)A 1995).
Career
Called Middle Temple 1997. Contributes division on overseas travel claims in Butterworths ‘Personal Injury Litigation Service’, updated March 2014; appointed by Council of the Inns of Court as a volunteer barrister for disciplinary hearings, 2009-13. Publishes in various journals including ‘New Law Journal’. Contributed to APIL’s ‘Guide to Accidents Abroad 2013’ and ‘Oliver and Dingemans: Employers Liability Cases’ (Butterworths, 2003). Conciliator to the Passenger Shipping Association/CLIA UK 2010-2014.
Languages
Fluent French, German.
Memberships
- Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA)
- London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA)
- Pan-European Organisatin of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL)
Education
Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks; St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1995 BA Hons French and German, first class); City University (1996 Diploma in Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation and Travel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Katherine Deal KC – 3 Hare Court ‘She is the best in her business, by far. A truly exceptional barrister with a formidable legal brain, a lovely personality, which helps with personal injury clients, and a huge knowledge of the relevant law. She leaves her opponents quaking in their boots.’
London Bar > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Katherine Deal KC –3 Hare Court ‘Katherine is stellar – she is responsive, practical and brilliant on her feet.’
3 Hare Court is highlighted as a ‘highly educated, approachable and commercially astute set’, noted in particular for its ‘first class service’ in travel injury litigation. Katherine Deal KC handles personal injury, often encompassing several jurisdictions, sport injuries, maximum severity cognitive and orthopaedic injuries as a result of collisions. Andrew Young acts for both defendants and claimants in serious physical injury incurred abroad and as a result of defective products, psychiatric injuries incurred at workplaces, as well as fatal claims arising from catastrophic traffic collisions.