Alex has a busy common law, employment and chancery practice acting for both claimants and defendants. He accepts instructions in a wide variety of cases from personal injuries to professional and private disputes. He has extensive experience in the field of road traffic fraud and expresses a particular interest in all manner of disputes arising in the work place including personal injuries, discrimination, restraint of trade and contractual issues. Alex is Junior Counsel to the Crown and represents government departments in personal injury claims, employment tribunal claims, enforcement of the Minimum Wage Act and land disputes. Alex welcomes instructions on conditional fee agreements, and is authorised to provide services on a ‘direct access’ basis. Alex operates a paper free practice and welcomes instructions by e mail or other electronic media where convenient. Alex is an equality and diversity officer in Chambers, reflecting his specialist interest in matters of equality rights and discrimination.
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Barrister specialising in personal injury, personal injury fraud and insurance fraud.
Barrister specialising in all aspects of family law including divorce/separation – injunctive relief, matrimonial finance and co-habitation disputes (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) and all aspects of children’s law – including contact and residence disputes and care proceedings, representing local authorities, parents and children.
Archna specialises in financial remedy and private law work. In matrimonial finance, she undertakes work in medium to large-asset cases and is regularly instructed at an early stage in order to assist with the smooth running of a case in particular on the issues of disclosure. In private law matters Archna represents parents and guardians in complex residence/contact disputes in cases where allegations of physical and sexual abuse are made, ‘implacably hostile’ mothers and issues of children being ‘coached’ to make up allegations against another parent. Archna has a particular interest and experience in cases with clients from different ethnic backgrounds. She can conduct conferences in Hindi. Archna was a tenant in a thriving set of chambers in Bristol for over 10 years and has now returned to her ‘home roots’ and joined Deans Court Chambers.
Bansa has practised predominately in the field of family work for over 20 years. In the field of public law children work Bansa is in particular demand for complex cases involving serious non-accidental injury and complex sexual abuse issues. He acts for parents, grandparents, children and local authorities and is often called upon to advise at an early stage in proceedings. Bansa has a diligent and methodical approach. He has a calm and conciliatory nature qualifying as a mediator in 1999. This skill is highly effective in the often fraught and emotive atmosphere of child care work. He is a powerful advocate with a reputation for rigorous cross-examination coupled with a straightforward, pragmatic approach. He produces high quality paper work. Bansa also accepts instructions in complex private law children cases with a particular interest in international movement of children and child abduction. Whilst Bansa is perhaps more widely known for his work in children cases he also has considerable experience in ancillary relief / Schedule 1 and TOLATA work and continues to do these cases on a regular basis. He also provides seminars and lectures to solicitors, social workers and expert witnesses.
Beth Morton started her career in London, having undertaken a general common law pupillage and early years of tenancy at 4, King’s Bench Walk Chambers in the Temple. She specialised in crime and family initially and often defended and prosecuted cases at Crown Court level. However, by 2004, she had also established a thriving family law practice and a keen interest in the subject. She decided to concentrate solely on family law. She relocated with her family to Manchester, where she was born and brought up. She joined 18, St John Street Chambers and practised there successfully for five years before being invited to join Deans Court Chambers in 2010. Beth Morton has developed a busy and thriving specialist family law practice. She regularly acts for Local Authorities, Guardians and parents in all aspects of public child law and private child law, adoption, special guardianship, Rule 16.4 cases and relocation cases. She has experience of complex and unusual cases, findings of fact hearings, and cases involving serious non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, domestic violence and drug and alcohol misuse. Beth Morton has undertaken linked directions hearings where there are concurrent criminal and family proceedings and was involved in two directions hearings relating to murder cases, acting for the Local Authority in each case. She was led in a serious sexual abuse case acting for the alleged perpetrator where the criminal proceedings were concurrent. Beth Morton has experience acting at the County Court and High Court level and in the Court of Appeal.
Barrister specialising in public law childcare work, representing local authorities, parents and children. Also specialises in regulatory work, dealing with the registration and fitness to practice of medical professionals.
Historically Ciaran has prosecuted and defended all areas of Crime. More recently my practice has developed into representing individuals who have been accused of the most serious of sexual offences and prosecuting at the GMC. He is decisive in dealing with people and explain their options in a clear unfettered way. This is very often unpalatable advice. He deals with a wide range of personalities and treat each individual with respect patience and courtesy. He supplements this work with sitting in the Crown Court as a Recorder. This has allowed him to develop his skills as an advocate as a result of judging and witnessing others who appear before him.
QC specialising in complex and catastrophic personal injury and clinical negligence; professional discipline; commercial.
Practices in clinical negligence, personal injury, civil police work, some judicial review and ancillary relief. Cases include: Smith v West Lancashire Heath Authority [1995] PIQR P51; Wagstaff v Wagstaff [1992] 1 WLR 320; Wilding v Chief Constable of Lancashire (CA, unreported) [1995]; Hammond v West Lancashire Health Authority [1998] Lloyd’s Rep Med 146; Stoke on Trent City Council v Walley [2006] EWCA Civ 1137; Marsh v Chief Constable of Lancashire [2003] EWCA Civ 284; McGrath v Chief Constable of Lancashire (unreported, use that may be made by a defendant in criminal proceedings of unused material served upon him, believed to be the first case of its type); Strickson v Preston County Court and Chief Constable of Lancashire and Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs [2006] EWHC 3300; and Hyland v Chief Constable of Lancashire (Times 7.2.96).
Barrister specialising in personal injury (including employers’ liability, public liability, occupier’s liability, health and safety at work) professional liability (particularly solicitor’s negligence/clinical negligence), general common law.
Eliza had a specialist family pupilage with Julia Cheetham and Peter Rothery and thereafter has gone on to practice in all areas of family law as well as developing a busy practice in the Court of Protection and other areas involving vulnerable adults, such as Community Care Law and Mental Health Law. In family law Eliza acts for Local Authorities, children and parents at all stages of care proceedings and private law proceedings in cases across the North West involving serious domestic violence, sexual abuse, non-accidental injury and neglect. Eliza also practices in financial matters and has dealt with complex cases involving international jurisdiction and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Eliza has also built up a flourishing Court of Protection practice and deals with both welfare applications and property and affairs. Eliza regularly deals with complex cases in the Court of Protection, including those involving catastrophic brain injury, DOLS, breach of ECHR rights, and where there is an overlap with Judicial Review. Eliza also represents both Local Authorities and patients in Mental Health Review Tribunals as well as advising and appearing in the High Court in relation to Judicial Review arising out of breach of community care legislation.
Elizabeth is regularly instructed in regulatory cases arising from alleged failures in the workplace, often where death or personal injury has resulted. She appears in cases where professional disciplinary, healthcare or medical related allegations arise. She has considerable experience in inquests, representing a wide number of local authorities, healthcare regulators (Care Quality Commission), individuals and families. She has 18 years experience in defending cases before juries and prosecuting cases before professional panels and tribunals. Her principle specialism relates to medical and healthcare law, involving professional negligence and professional discipline. She has been included on the General Medical Council’s preferred list of counsel for over 13 years. She regularly successfully prosecutes high profile cases for the GMC before the MPTS Fitness to Practice Panels. She has a wide experience in professional discipline cases (often linked to inquests and employment) and she has conducted cases before various tribunals, trusts and professional bodies. She continues to defend in criminal cases of the utmost gravity, such as rape and murder, particularly those with vulnerabilities, learning difficulties and mental disorders, with a notable success rate. She has a wide experience in the Coroner’s Court and has acted in a number of cases and inquests. Her broad medical knowledge and jury experience assists her to obtain good results for her client. She has a keen interest in health and safety and environmental law and has successfully prosecuted and defended cases for local authorities in the environmental and healthcare fields. She is currently recommended and listed in the directories as ‘a professional and persuasive advocate’ (Crime); ‘a safe pair of hands to coax and confront in cross-examination’ (regulatory, health and safety, and licensing). and as having ‘wide-ranging expertise of workplace and environmental regulation’.
Barrister specialising in family (private client, money, public) and civil (personal injury).
Francesca’s practice covers all aspects of matrimonial finance provision, with a particular interest in cases involving farms and landed estates and the associated issues of inherited wealth and trusts, together with complex corporate and tax structures. Francesca has an expanding practice in cases with an international element, in which her linguistic skills can often be deployed. Francesca is recognised for her commitment to her clients and for her constructive yet robust approach. Francesca is also instructed in private law residence and contact disputes, often in entrenched cases involving sensitive cultural and religious issues, alcohol/drugs misuse and matters in which there is contested psychological or psychiatric evidence.
All aspects of crime, health and safety prosecutions and coroner’s inquests.
Barrister specialising in personal injury, RTA fraud, credit hire and costs.
Glenn’s practice is predominantly concerned with the defence of clients facing allegations of negligence in the course of professional practice, along with disputes traditionally dealt with by the Judges of the Chancery Division. In the professional negligence arena, Glenn has extensive experience of the defence of a broad spectrum of claims, predominantly in respect of allegations against lawyers, but also those brought against accountants, auditors, financial intermediaries, architects, surveyors and engineers. In the Chancery field, Glenn has substantial experience of advising and pleading across a broad range of litigious Chancery disputes and of advocacy in interim hearings, at trials and on appeals. He has particular experience of witness actions involving highly disputed facts. Professional Negligence: claims against lawyers brought by both individual and institutional claimants, and arising out of contentious and non contentious business, with a particular concentration on disputes arising out of the Chancery and commercial areas in which Glenn has experience; claims against engineers, surveyors and architects; claims against accountants, auditors and financial intermediaries. Chancery: wills, contentious probate and 1975 Act family provision claims; trusts, both charitable and private, and arising in the context of both commercial and personal cases, along with associated relief and remedies; law relating to the elderly and to vulnerable people, including Court of Protection matters and claims to equitable relief in relation to gifts or transactions; land problems including disputes about contracts, conveyancing, easements, restrictive covenants, mortgages and charges, landlord and tenant; company and insolvency, particularly transactional avoidance disputes. Commercial: insurance disputes; arbitration, avoidance, aggregation, interpretation and construction, and including problems arising in the context of professional indemnity, property, loss of profit and life policies; asset forfeiture claims under the Proceeds of Crime legislation; in addition to his civil practice, Glenn has experience as an advocate in the criminal courts, particularly in cases which raise issues connected to his principal areas of civil practice.
Barristers specialising in all aspects of family law; childcare (both public and private law) and financial relief, including property disputes between co-habiting couples.
Barrister. Specialist areas of practice: personal injury, clinical negligence, and regulatory (General Medical Council). Cases of interest: Vellino v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police [2002] 2 WLR 218 CA (considered whether the police owed a duty to prevent an escaping prisoner from exposing himself to a foreseeable risk of injury (claimant)); Cross v Kirklees MBC [1998] 1 All ER 561 (duty of a highway authority to clear away snow and ice (defendant)); Johnson v Stockport MBC [2002] (unreported (lead article on the front page of the Manchester Evening News on 4 February 2002), dyslexic pupil recovered from LEA who had failed to diagnose and treat his condition (claimant)); Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC [1990] 1 WLR 1195 CA (defendant’s duty to consider tender submitted in correct form (defendant)).
Having joined chambers after the successful completion of a specialist criminal pupillage under the supervision of Mr Christopher Hudson, James has developed a very busy practice which incorporates both Criminal and Civil work. His Criminal practice incorporates all areas and he is regularly instructed on Magistrates and Crown Court work for both the prosecution and defence. In 2011, James was appointed Acting Crown Counsel for the Attorney General of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands territory. This entailed prosecuting all crime in the jurisdiction as well as acting in a general advisory role to the Falkland Islands’ government in legislative matters. James has recently been commissioned by the Nursing & Midwifery Council to advise on charging and evidence in respect of fitness to practice hearings involving the misconduct, lack of competency and health of Registrants. James’s civil practice includes personal injury and fraud.
James accepts instructions in all areas of civil law, with a particular emphasis on personal injury litigation involving allegations of dishonesty. His personal injury work encompasses RTA claims, public and employers’ liability actions (including industrial disease, stress at work and harassment cases), and occupiers’ liability claims. James is regularly instructed on behalf of several national insurers in suspected fraudulent road traffic accidents (whether staged, phantom passenger of LVI), fraudulent employers and public liability claims, and in credit hire litigation. A growing area of his practice concerns fraud rings and costs recovery against solicitors, ATE providers and other non-parties.
Barrister dealing exclusively in family law; children; public law including local authorities (instructed by Cumbria and Lancashire CCs, Blackburn and Darwen and Blackpool BCs; guardians; parents (predominantly high-cost contract); private law; money (private work, in particular, farming). Also practises at Zenith Chambers.
Crime corporate – including health and safety; Crime general; Crime fraud. Cases include: B v Wilson, gun running and terrorism; R v Cartwright, terrorism/explosives; R v Raveshi, murder; R v Lin, gross negligence, manslaughter.
Since joining Deans Court Chambers in 2009, Jonathan has developed a busy practice within the commercial and common law fields. Jonathan is regularly instructed to settle pleadings and advices and to represent clients at Fast Track and Multi Track trials, as well as before other specialist tribunals. Jonathan is regularly instructed to advise on and represent clients in relation to a range of commercial, property and housing related matters, including matters related to the interpretation and performance of contracts, the title to and ownership of property, and to both the duties owed by property owners and managers and proceedings for possession of property. In addition, Jonathan is regularly instructed in relation to actual and threatened professional negligence actions involving residential surveyors and solicitors. Jonathan undertakes a substantial quantity and range of personal injury work covering Employers Liability, Public Liability and Road Traffic related matters, as well as advising on and contesting quantum awards. Jonathan is regularly instructed in relation to personal injury matters which involve questions regarding the extent of duties owed by landlords (e.g. under the Defective Premises Act). In addition, Jonathan is regularly instructed to settle pleadings, to advise on liability, and to represent clients in relation to Road Traffic matters where fraud is (or is to be) alleged. Jonathan is regularly asked to provide seminars to both professional and lay clients and has, over the past 12 months, provided seminars on subject matters ranging from developments in Commercial Law (including penalty clauses, the interpretation of contracts), aspects of Personal Injury litigation (including actions involving insolvent entities, tactics in RTA litigation). Prior to joining Deans Court Chambers, Jonathan worked as a Vice-President in the legal department of US investment bank Goldman Sachs. During his 4 years at the bank’s European headquarters in London, Jonathan was responsible for advising on and implementing the requirements of domestic and international anti-corruption and anti-money laundering legislation. His hands-on experience of applying the law in a rigorous and yet commercially practical manner leaves him well placed to advise companies, organisations and individuals on how best to apply the law to achieve their commercial and personal objectives.
Jonathan has a mixed practice, undertaking all forms of criminal, personal injury and regulatory work. He has developed a specialism in road traffic law. He is regularly instructed by insurance clients to represent drivers charged with road traffic offences, from the minor to the most severe cases involving death and catastrophic injury. This specialism enables work to be done on the same case in the criminal and civil courts, including inquests. His general crime work covers a wide range of offences, including drug offences, offences of violence and public order, dishonesty offences, fraud and money laundering offences (including POCA proceedings), and sexual offences. He acts for both the defence and CPS as a grade 3 prosecutor. His criminal work also extends to prison law where he has represented offenders at parole hearings and adjudications. Jonathan regularly undertakes personal injury work, with particular experience in civil fraud work. With experience in both criminal and personal injury advocacy, he is ideally positioned to robustly challenge complex evidence in fraudulent claims. He acts for both claimants and defendants in road traffic accident claims, occupiers’ liability claims, Highways Act claims, employers’ liability claims and claims resulting from breaches of health and safety legislation. He is instructed by the medical profession to represent doctors in proceedings at the GMC, and has conducted a variety of cases, including Fitness to Practice Hearings, IOP hearings and Registration Appeals. Such cases have involved issues of dishonesty, competence and the personal health of the doctors themselves, and as such require a sensitive approach to these issues combined with a vigorous defence of the doctor. Jonathan also represents Local Authorities in a variety of regulatory cases including food standards prosecutions and animal welfare cases. He also undertakes all types of licensing work for both private clients as well as prosecution agencies. He receives instructions in Health and Safety cases, both in respect of prosecutions and inquests representing individuals as well as corporate entities. He has been instructed on a number of occasions in the Falkland Islands on both criminal and personal injury matters.
Barrister specialising in general common law; personal injury; employers’ liability; health and safety at work; insurance contract law; professional negligence; road traffic; torts.
Specialises in crime and regulatory work including all areas of health and safety work, such as inquests. Environmental cases regularly undertaken. For full details see www.deanscourt.co.uk.
All aspects of childcare work, representation of local authorities, children’s guardians and parents. Private law children’s work.
Barrister specialising in all aspects of family law including: matrimonial finance, childcare, residence and contact.
Specialist in professional discipline and related employment issues principally on behalf of healthcare professionals. Medical law practitioner with experience of every type of clinical negligence claim, predominantly but not exclusively representing healthcare professionals and NHS Trusts and considerable experience of medical Inquests. Public law work (extensive Judicial Review experience) relating to the NHS and healthcare professional regulators and Coroners. Special interest in sports medicine issues. Extensive employment law experience in Tribunals and internal disciplinary appeals.
Barrister specialising in personal injury; clinical negligence; professional negligence; contract and commercial law; civil actions against the police; construction; insurance; appeared in Barclays Bank v Fairclough Building Ltd [1995] 76 BLR 1 (CA); Bainbridge & Circuit Foil UK Ltd [1997] IRLR 305 (CA); Igwemma & Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2002] 2 WLR 204 (CA).
Barrister specialising in regulatory crime, crime and professional discipline. Head of criminal team at Deans Court Chambers. Recorder (crime) of the Crown Court from 2012. Regularly appears for companies and individuals in health and safety prosecutions. Instructed to represent medical practitioners in professional discipline hearings, inquests and public inquiries. Prosecutes and defends in all areas of serious crime including murder and white collar fraud.
Nick Courtney enjoys a busy practice in general crime and regulatory work, for both prosecution and defence. His particular specialist areas are fraud, money laundering, Health and Safety, and serious sexual offences. Nick is regularly instructed in relation to complex and multi-handed Crown Court cases involving allegations of fraud or money laundering by professionals, either alone or as leading junior, and has considerable experience in relation to confiscation proceedings under POCA 2003. His general criminal practice spans the full criminal calendar up to and including murder, and commonly involving the most serious sexual offences where, again, he is often instructed in relation to complex and multi-handed cases. In the regulatory sphere, Nick specialises in Health and Safety work involving both individuals and corporations, and has appeared, either alone or led, in cases of the utmost seriousness and with a high media profile.
Barrister specialising in civil litigation including: personal injury; insurance; professional negligence.
Barrister specialising in personal injury, general common law, costs and inquests.
Barrister specialising in family law including public and private Children Act matters. Specialty in advising local authorities in relationship to child protection legislation and internal policy. Actions against local authorities including Human Rights Act claims and failure to intervene claims. Domestic abuse cases including injunctive proceedings and occupation orders.
Health and safety defence in HSE and other enforcement proceedings nationally. Inquest. Defendant personal injury. Specialist in employer’s liability and public liability. General common law.
Peter has developed a busy and broadly based criminal practise with extensive experience in both defending and prosecuting including cases of murder, causing death by dangerous driving, firearms, arson, serious sexual offences and drug conspiracies. He is a level 4 Prosecutor on the CPS Advocates Panel. Peter regularly acts for the GMC in cases before the Fitness to Practise panel involving all aspects of professional misconduct. Such cases often involve sensitive subject matter and have to be handled with particular care. He also appears on behalf of commercial clients in cases prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive in both the Magistrates and Crown Court.
Barrister specialising in all aspects of family law: children including care proceedings, adoption and applications for financial provision; divorce and separation; matrimonial property; trusts of land and property disputes arising from relationship breakdown; probate including financial provision under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; mental capacity.
Barrister specialising in cases concerning the registration and fitness to practise of medical professionals. Experienced in defending fraudulent insurance claims. Health and safety and environmental regulation. Accredited mediator
Rachel’s practice falls predominantly in the field of personal Injury litigation. She undertakes work in a range of areas, covering Public Liability, Occupiers’ Liability, Employers’ Liability and Road Traffic Accidents, acting for both claimants and defendants. Rachel joined Deans Court as a tenant in October 2009, having completed her pupillage under the supervision of Richard Whitehall. Since then, Rachel has developed a busy civil practice, spanning a broad range of personal injury matters, including accidents at work and on the highway, occupiers’ liability and defective premises claims, road traffic accident claims, credit hire, and costs. Her work in these areas encompasses frequent court appearances, including at Fast Track trials, disposal hearings, interim applications, case management and directions hearings. She is also regularly instructed to draft pleadings, and to advise on issues of liability, quantum and procedure.
Rebecca began her career at Cobden House Chambers in 2004 and practised there until being invited to join Deans Court Chambers in 2013, having developed a specialist and thriving family law practice. In public law proceedings Rebecca represents Local Authorities, children’s guardians’ and parents and other interested parties. Rebecca has experience of complex cases involving non-accidental injury, non-accidental head injury, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, long standing neglect and violence towards professionals. In private law proceedings Rebecca has experience of difficult disputes including international and internal relocation, serious allegations of violence and representation of r16.4 guardians.
Barrister specialising in general common law; personal injury; employers’ liability; health and safety at work; insurance contract law; professional negligence; road traffic; torts.
Robert specialises in personal injury cases with a particular emphasis on matters involving fraud and quasi-fraud. He has wide experience of dealing with low velocity impact defences, allegations of staged accidents, phantom passengers and fraud rings. He also acts for a number of local authorities in public liability claims where there are serious causation concerns. Robert is also regularly instructed in employers’ liability cases and frequently acts for multi-national companies and local authorities in claims involving the six-pack regulations. He also deals with a wide range of public liability cases including occupiers’ liability claims with issues involving the design and layout of premises. Robert has also developed an interest in the application of the Data Protection Act 1998 and principles of confidentiality, particularly with reference to disclosure obligations.
Barrister specialising in criminal matters, health and safety, environmental regulation, regulatory (GMC).
Barrister specialising in all aspects of serious and complex allegations of criminal offending.
Barrister specialising in personal injury; professional negligence, especially medical/clinical and solicitors; industrial disease; product liability.
A criminal practitioner, Sarah has extensive experience as a junior and led-junior in offences of violence, up to and including manslaughter and murder; serious sexual offences particularly child sex offences, historic rape and gang rape; all aspects of financial crime, with significant experience of money laundering and fraud; people trafficking; drug importation, production and supply; firearms and serious crime in general. She has a significant practice both defending and as a category 3 prosecutor and is on the rape panel. Sarah argues complex road traffic cases throughout the North West. Her regulatory crime practice includes health and safety, prison law and defending in the General Medical Council.
Sasha undertakes public law work of the utmost seriousness, including physical, sexual and emotional abuse, acting for local authorities, parents and children alike. She was instructed by a local authority to conduct existing care proceedings involving complex legal issues surrounding identification of perpetrators in finding of fact proceedings. She was later led by Susan Grocott QC in both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in the case now known as Re S-B UKSC17 [2010] 1 FLR 1161. She has also been led in High Court care proceedings involving the suspicious death of a child. Alongside her public law work, Sasha also undertakes complex private law cases involving sexual abuse, implacable hostility and international relocation.
Chancery and commercial /common law, including insurance, real property, landlord and tenant, probate, trusts, insolvency, company and professional negligence. See website for further details (www.deanscourt.co.uk).
Barrister specialising in general common law: tort (with particular emphasis on personal injury litigation); professional negligence; sports law.
Barrister specialising in all areas of family law including: children (public and private, including internal and international relocation), financial relief, co-habiting couples, ToLATA and separation agreements. Simon has experience of high-net worth Schedule 1 applications and pre-nuptial/post-nuptial agreements. Also advises local authorities on various areas of public family law and regulations. Undertakes work in the Court of Protection, with experience in both welfare and property and affairs applications.
Sophie has an extensive inquest practice and is known for her knowledge and expertise in coronial law. She also specialises in regulatory law including health and safety and environmental offences and professional discipline. She regularly appears before the Court of Protection and is also recommended for Administrative Court work. R (on the application of C) v A Local Authority et al [2011] All ER (D) 171 (Jun) Neutral Citation: [2011] EWHC 1539 (Admin); Inquest Law, Issue 19 2010 pp 19-20; Inquest Law, Issue 20 2010 pp 36-37; The Queen on the application of Sreedharan v HM Coroner for the County of Greater Manchester and others, Court of Appeal [2013] EWCA Civ 181; The Queen on the Application of Augustine Housing Trust v Bolton Magistrates Court [2013] EWHC 4399 (Admin), 2014 WL 287665.
Complex and catastrophic personal injury and clinical negligence, insurance related disputes, environmental claims.
Barrister specialising in crime including regulatory law; actions against the police.
Barrister specialising in all areas of family work, involving public and private law children and matrimonial finance; co-habitee disputes; professional negligence (matrimonial finance); public law and private rights.
Barrister dealing with personal injury; clinical negligence; health, safety and regulatory law; industrial disease and professional indemnity.
Timothy Ryder has a particular interest in medical and scientific issues, deriving from an academic background in natural sciences, and has specialised in clinical negligence work, acting exclusively for claimants, for the last 20 years. He is regularly instructed by firms in the North-West and throughout the country. He also specialises in serious personal injury work, particularly catastrophic brain, spinal and other orthopaedic injury cases, and regularly undertakes such work for both claimants and defendants.
Barrister specialising in clinical negligence and industrial disease; also building and construction claims and other professional negligence claims (architects, solicitors, surveyors and valuers).
Barrister specialising in commercial litigation; insurance; personal injuries; professional negligence (accountants, architects, engineers, medical, solicitors, surveyors and valuers). Professional disciplinary and regulatory, see website for further details.
Victoria receives instructions for both claimants and defendants and regularly deals with all stages of fast track and multi track matters with a focus on complex liability, causation and quantum disputes. She enjoys a busy paper and Court practice, is detail orientated and places a keen emphasis on recovery of costs at all stages.
Victoria had a chancery and general common law pupillage and thereafter practiced in both chancery and civil work and joined the family team in 2010 in order to develop her financial practice to include matrimonial finance. Victoria has an interest in financial disputes upon relationship breakdown (both cohabitation disputes and matrimonial finance) and claims under Inheritance Act 1975. In addition to the above, Victoria has extensive experience in personal injury work.
Virginia Hayton, following a general common law practice, has concentrated on Crime since 2001. She mainly appears on the Northern Circuit, however has appeared in Courts nationwide. She notably specialises in serious sexual offences, involving familial historic rapes and gang rape. Her general criminal work includes fraud, drug conspiracies, firearms offences and offences of violence up to and including murder. She has defended in a number of fitness to plead hearings and, thereafter, finding of fact hearings involving rape and serious sex offences. She mainly defends, however, also has a significant prosecution practice as a Level 4 prosecutor. Her regulatory Crime practice includes Health and Safety Executive Prosecutions, an area in which she also delivers lectures, and defending in the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council. She has considerable experience in conducting inquests, representing insured, public sector bodies and private limited companies.
William advises and represents clients in both Employer’s Liability and Public Liability matters, as well as in disputes arising from Road Traffic Accidents. His practice encompasses cases involving allegations of fraud and he is familiar with the guidelines set down by the court of appeal for dealing with Low Velocity Impact litigation. He also represents clients at Coroner’s Inquests and has experience in dealing with such inquests where the state’s fulfilment of its obligations under the Human Rights Act are in issue, as well as inquests where the outcome may be commercially sensitive.