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Colm Nugent

Colm Nugent

Position

Colm is a specialist barrister in the fields of personal injury and related insurance issues. He is also instructed in a variety of disputes outside these core fields including difficult interlocutory applications, having lectured extensively on the CPR and related costs issues.

Colm acts for both Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of injury and related disputes with a particular focus on lower limb injuries, subtle brain injury (especially those leading to an increased risk of dementia), complex loss of earnings claims, hand injuries and long-term loss claims as well as fatalities.  He is an acknowledged specialist in claims concerning the application of the Defective Premises Act, which has taken him to the Court of Appeal this year.

He is sought after by insurers for cases where fraud and exaggeration are suspected and has had success at striking out a number of such claims. Colm lectures regularly on the CPR, litigation tactics, defending fraud claims, bringing complex loss claims and issues arising from disability and interpretation of the Ogden reduction factors. Colm is also an accredited ADR Group Mediator.

Colm regularly speaks at training events and seminars, and also gives webinars for Practical Law, LexisNexis and others.

Career

Call: 1992

Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association Professional Negligence Bar Association British Insurance Law Association Employment Law Bar Association London Common Law Bar Association

Education

B.A. (Kent) Colm came to the Bar from employment at Smithkline Beecham (now Glaxo Smithkline)

Mentions

London Bar

Personal injury

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Colm Nugent –Gatehouse Chambers Tactically astute, Colm brings a wealth of experience to all cases. He offers a unique insight and is very tactically flexible, offering a different viewpoint and approach for how to take a case forward. Clients love him.’