Chambers News Archives - 1 Chancery Lane

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Complex Personal Injury
Delivering ‘a consistently high-standard’ service, 1 Chancery Lane’s Personal Injury practice is closely linked to its extensive expertise across the public law spectrum. With one of the largest Personal Injury teams in the sector, offering both silks and juniors, areas of niche expertise include claims relating to child abuse, industrial disease, occupiers’ liability, product liability, public liability, road traffic, and sports incidents, as well as fraudulent claims and insurance-related work, inquests and public authority claims and inquiries.
Other services: Motor Fraud
Public Sector & Human Rights
1 Chancery Lane acts for both claimants and defendants on a broad range of claims brought against local authorities, police forces and emergency services, education providers, care homes and housing associations. Members of chambers have particular expertise in human rights and other civil liberties matters; claims relating to care home regulation, child care proceedings and child abuse investigations; education-related matters; and the practice and processes of the Administrative Court and of advising public bodies as to the lawfulness of their actions.
Other services: Police Law
Travel & Cross Border Claims
Recognised as the pre-eminent travel set members of 1 Chancery Lane’s Travel Law team act for solicitors and their clients as well as directly for tour operators, airlines, cruise operators, trade associations, tourist boards, charities and insurers (home and overseas). Offering some of the leading silks and juniors in this field, members are adept at dealing with the full range of personal injury matters, including cases concerning catastrophic injury, fatalities, illness claims and group actions. The set is particularly known for its expertise in package travel claims and issues concerning liability, jurisdiction and applicable law.
Professional Liability
1 Chancery Lane is recognised for legal, insurance, financial services, real estate and construction professional negligence work, and is particularly noted for its ‘unique specialism’ in claims concerning local authorities and the education sector. Members act for both claimants and defendants in hard-fought cases concerning such allegations as breach of duty, misrepresentation and fraud.
Property, Chancery & Commercial
1 Chancery Lane has built on its strong reputation for Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, and Property Damage work to provide relevant and linked expertise across Property, Chancery & Commercial disciplines. Areas of particular specialism include real property, trusts & probate, landlord & tenant, property damage, property-related professional negligence, property-related and Landlord & Tenant Personal Injury claims, and all areas of commercial, financial and industrial contracts, including matters relating to fraud.
Medical Law
Reported as a ‘technically strong’ team, with ‘far-reaching expertise’ 1 Chancery Lane offers one of the largest, specialist medical law and clinical negligence teams in the sector. Acting on large, multi-party actions as well as individual cases, members of 1 Chancery Lane specialise in claims relating to organ retention, cervical screening, human growth hormone, cardiac surgery, HIV/haemophilia, fatal accidents and catastrophic injuries (particularly those involving the spine or birth trauma), mental illness, as well as those concerning consent and safeguarding, human rights, difficult causation and quantum issues, inquests, inquiries, GMC and GDC regulatory cases and other professional disciplinary tribunals.

Category: Chambers News

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Watch Paul Stagg’s Interview – CN & GN in the Supreme Court – your questions answered

Paul Stagg, junior counsel for the defendant, and Sarah Erwin-Jones of Browne Jacobson LLP discuss what the recent Supreme Court decision means for the principal stakeholders involved.

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Jun

19

Third Six Pupillage Applications

1 Chancery Lane is a long-established civil common law set with market leading specialisms in professional and clinical negligence, police law, public sector law, property law and travel law. In ...

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Jun

19

CN v Poole Borough Council

Executive Summary of the Decision of the Supreme Court Handed Down on June 6th 2019 The Supreme Court dismissed the claimants’ appeal on a unanimous basis, upholding the ...

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Jun

19

CN and Poole Borough Council

The Supreme Court has today handed down its judgment in CN v Poole Borough Council, in which Lord Edward Faulks QC, Paul Stagg and Katie ...

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May

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Supreme Court Judgment to be handed down on Thursday 6th June

Judgment in the case of Poole Borough Council (Respondent) v GN (Through his Litigation Friend "The Official Solicitor") and another (Appellants) will be handed down in the Supreme Court at 10am on ...

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Apr

19

1 Chancery Lane shortlisted for British Claims Awards 2019

Chambers is delighted to announce that 1 Chancery Lane has been shortlisted for Barristers' Chambers of the Year, at The British Claims Awards 2019.

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Apr

19

Lord Faulks QC and Laura Johnson successful in Court of Appeal consent case

Diamond v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWCA Civ 585 Lord Faulks QC and Laura Johnson have successfully resisted an appeal on causation in a case ...

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Feb

19

Sarah Prager to talk at ABTA Travel Law Seminar

We're delighted to announce that Sarah Prager will, again, be speaking at the ABTA Travel Law Seminar. To see the other speakers and programme, click here:

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Jan

19

Chambers News

Attorney General appoints Katie Ayres as Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel)

Katie Ayres has recently been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (to do civil work on ...

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Dec

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The Kenya Emergency Group Litigation concludes

After over 2.5 years of trial the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation (“KEGL”) has finally concluded. All claims against the UK Government (the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) have now been ...

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