Temple Garden Chambers

Inquest, public inquiries, health and safety law and related proceedings. Health and Safety Silk of the year in 2017. Significant cases include: R v Geoconsult (1999) (Heathrow tunnel collapse), R v Lord Condon and Sir John Stevens (2003) (death of police officer), R v Thames Trains (2004) (Paddington rail crash), R v Southampton University Hospital (2006), R v Office of the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (2007) (prosecution arising out of the Stockwell shooting), R v Bulmer and Nalco (2008) (outbreak of legionnaires disease in Hereford), R v Cotswold Geotechnical Ltd (2011) (first prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act), R v Dalkia Ltd (2011), R v Austin & McLean and Esso (2013), R v Costain Ltd (2014), R v Dynamiq Cleaning Ltd (2015), R v BAM Construciton (2017), R v Tata Steel UK Ltd (2017) (first successful appeal by a very large organisation under new Sentencing Guidelines). He has extensive experience of public inquiries (such as the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry, the D Inquiry, Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry) and inquests (for example, the 7/7 London Bombings, Vauxhall Helicopter crash, Crossrail, the Shoreham Air Disaster, the Croydon Tram Disaster, work related deaths, deaths in custody, military including inquest into the deaths of 6 Royal Military Police soldiers in Iraq, air crash at RAF St Mawgan and deaths of 3 SAS recruits on the Brecon Beacons). More generally, Keith has a common law practice with a particular focus on personal injury and is accustomed to dealing with complex civil litigation.

Called 1990; Lincoln’s Inn; pupillage 20 Essex Street and Temple Garden Chambers; Treasury Counsel Common Law ‘B’ Panel 1997-2003; Treasury Counsel Common Law ‘A’ Panel 2003-2008, 2009-11; QC 2011.

Administrative Law Bar Association; JUSTICE; Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association; Personal Injury Bar Association.

Hull University (1987 BSc Economics); City University (1989 Dip Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1990).

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