London Bar
Clinical negligence
Leading silk2Benjamin Browne KC –2 Temple Gardens ‘Ben has enormous experience. For spinal and brain injury cases, he has been there and seen it all before. Nothing fazes him.’
2 Temple Gardens
Barristers
Benjamin Browne KC
2 Temple Gardens, London
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Work Department
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sport, Farming Related Litigation, Product Liability, Professional Negligence, Travel
Position
Personal injury - acting for both sides including alleged radiation injury, work related stress, defective components, riding accidents, criminal acts of employees and Fatal Accident Act claims. Clinical negligence - acting for both sides in cases involving catastrophic birth injury, negligent diagnosis and treatment, failure to recognise medical conditions, failure to safeguard suicidal patients. Travel - accidents abroad, Rome II, jurisdictional issues. Notable cases: Goldsmith v Patchcott and Roach [2012] PIQR P11 (COA) Animals Act. Collier v Norton [2012]: highest reported PI case, Wall v Mutuelle de Poitiers [2013]: Approach to evidence under Rome II. Mohamud v Morrisons Supreme Court [2015] vicarious liability, Williams v BHB Privy Council [2016] material contribution in clinical negligence. International cases include Carrara v Collins and Gibraltar Health Authority. Catastrophic brain injury sustained by claimant in road traffic accident in Gibraltar. Sullivan v The Care Agency [Gibraltar 2024], Balwah v Surgi-Med Clinic [2019] and Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeal [2024] medical malpractice case.
Recognised as the inaugural Legal 500 Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Silk of the Year in 2013, having previously been nominated for Chambers UK’s Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Silk of the Year in 2011.
Career
Called 1976; Inner Temple; Silk 1996; Recorder 1998. Christ Church, Oxford. MA Jurisprudence. Professional Memberships PIBA; LawInSport, British Association for Sport and Law.