Product liability and group actions, health and safety, environmental.
Oliver specialises in health and safety, product liability, environmental and regulatory claims. For the last decade he has been engaged in many of the most significant cases in those fields including: the Mercedes group litigation; the VW emissions group litigation; the Grenfell Inquiry; the Marks & Spencer asbestos prosecution; the OCENSA Pipeline group litigation; the Network Rail and Sellafield sentencing appeals; the 'metal on metal hip' group litigation; the Google 'Safari Workaround' litigation; the prosecution arising out of the Hatfield train crash; and the British Cycling prosecution. He has particular experience of serious regulatory prosecutions, group actions and inquiries. He sits as a Recorder in the Crown Court.
Called 1992; awarded advocacy prize by the Inns of Court School of Law; finalist in the Observer Mace debating competition, competing for Middle Temple; former president of the Oxford Union; trustee of the Lambeth Law Centre; former committee member of the HSLA; contributor to Halsbury’s Laws; assistant editor of ‘The International Product Law Manual’.
Combar, Health and Safety Lawyers Association.
St Hugh’s College, Oxford (BA).