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LONDON
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Roger Harris
Work Department
Clinical Negligence, Equestrian & Farming-Related Litigation, Insurance, Personal Injury
Position
Roger Harris is an experienced advocate who specialises in clinical negligence and catastrophic personal injury claims. He has appeared in a number of the leading cases relating to vicarious liability for intentional torts, including the Supreme Court case of Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC and is instructed in historic sexual abuse cases. He has a particular specialism in cases involving the Animals Act and farming matters generally and is regularly instructed on behalf of leading racehorse trainers. His clinical negligence practice includes a particular focus on issues relating to consent, cauda equina and oncology claims. He has previously been shortlisted for the Chambers and Partners ‘Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year’ and is Head of the 2 Temple Gardens Common Law Group.
Career
BA History and Politics, Exeter University. Called to the Bar in 1996. Recorder on the Western Circuit since 2018.
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Western circuit.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Roger Harris –2 Temple Gardens ‘He is exceptionally thorough and hard working with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law in this area. Animals Act cases are a particular strength. He is a determined and supremely effective advocate.’
Highlighted as ‘the place to go for cross-border disputes’,2 Temple Gardens‘ personal injury practitioners typically operate in highly sophisticated cases, especially those that requirement expertise in other jurisdictions, animal law, and psychiatric injuries. Senior members of the chambers pursue consequential disputes that reach the higher courts, such as Benjamin Browne KC and Marie-Louise Kinsler, who represented the defendants in the litigation surrounding the death of Sir Ian Brownlie, which settled in 2023 – the case reached the Supreme Court under the name FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie over issues of if the claim should have been brought in England or Egypt. Roger Harris is instructed in cases involving severe injuries, including those pertaining to animal law, such as Black v National Rifle Association, an ongoing dispute where the claimant contacted Lyme’s disease following exposure to a tick at one of the defendant’s shooting ranges.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Roger Harris –2 Temple Gardens ‘He is an extremely effective negotiator and tactician.’