No5 Barristers' Chambers
Barristers
Adam Farrer
- Phone0845 210 5555
- Email[email protected]
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- Profilewww.no5.com
Work Department
Specialises in Inquest work, Regulatory Crime and Personal Injury, including costs work.
Position
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Adam has over 25 years’ experience at the Bar of personal injury work, inquests and regulatory crime. Adam is a specialist Inquest practitioner. He regularly appears in cases involving deaths in prisons, military deaths, road accidents, care homes and work related factory and farming fatalities. Adam frequently acts in Article 2 jury inquests for organisations and public bodies, such as the MoJ, MoD and the HSE. Adam acts for defendant’s and the prosecution/HSE in regulatory criminal cases, involving serious injuries and fatalities. Personal injury work includes very high value brain injury cases, including for the CICA, with cases frequently between £3m and £10m. Directory rankings have stated Adam is a “Leader in their field” for Health and Safety work and a Leading Junior for Regulatory/Health & Safety Work and Inquests & Inquiries. Reported cases include: R v Martyn Crute (2011) EWCA Crim 3233; LHS v First Tier tribunal (CICA) (2017) EWCA Civ 2138. |
Career
Called to the Bar 1992; previously articled at Eversheds, Birmingham and qualified as a solicitor doing corporate and commercial work.
Languages
Some French
Memberships
Attorney General ‘A’ List Civil Panel & Attorney General’s HSE ‘A’ List
Education
Nottingham University Law LLB (Hons)
Solicitors Finals, Birmingham Law Society Gold Medal
Leisure
Golf, tennis, skiing.