Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Commercial Disputes, Personal Injury, Sports Law
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Commercial Disputes, Personal Injury, Sports Law.
James Counsell KC was called to the bar in 1984 and took silk in 2017.
James Counsell KC is widely recognised in the fields of Clinical and Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, regulatory and disciplinary hearings and Financial Services claims, both in the UK and abroad.
His clinical negligence work, acting both for claimants and for defendants, is combined with a busy disciplinary and regulatory practice, regularly representing doctors, dentists, barristers, solicitors and those in the financial services sector in their respective disciplinary tribunals. He acts both for practitioners and also for the BSB and the SRA.
James also acts for claimants and financial institutions in claims based upon the alleged mis-selling of financial products and breaches of FSMA and at common law. He represents litigants in the UK and also in the Middle East with a number of ongoing claims in the DIFC Courts in Dubai (leading Stephen Doherty).
He also specialises in acting for survivors of non-recent sexual abuse, having recently acted as lead counsel (leading Benjamin Bradley) in two claims against the Jehovah’s Witness organisation, the second of which has just been heard in the Supreme Court and numerous claimants in cases against football clubs and other sporting bodies, religious and educational organisations and the Scout Association.
He is a head of chambers and head of governance at Outer Temple.
Conversational French, Basic Spanish.
Marlborough College; Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Cricket, rugby, gardening, farming.