Other Areas of Law 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 Authority Claims & Inquiries
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: Other Areas of Law

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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

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Ian Stebbings successfully defends major national holiday park in public liability claim

Ian Stebbings successfully defends major national holiday park in public liability claim. The Claimant alleged that she had fallen ...

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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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Dec

18

Kasikci v London Borough of Southwark & Others

Ella Davis has successfully represented the London Borough of Southwark in a claim alleging that it had breached a duty to place a ...

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Oct

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Junior Practitioner Group Briefing – October 2018

Richard and Dominique joined Chambers as new tenants on 1st October 2018, having successfully completed their pupillages with 1 Chancery Lane. In this briefing Richard will ...

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Jul

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Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v S Williams & R Waistell

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that damages are recoverable in nuisance for the encroachment of Japanese Knotweed on the neighbouring land.

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May

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Kimathi & Others -v- Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 1305 (QB)

The High Court has firmly rejected the contention, advanced in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation, that fear without more is capable of being an injury so as to bring a claim within the ...

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May

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Kimathi v Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 1070 (QB)

Queen's Bench Division, 09 May 2018 Interlocutory judgment on the application of parliamentary privilege in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation.

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Feb

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Personal Injury Briefing – Abuse

2018 has started with an even greater degree of scrutiny upon abuse than ever before. Almost every corner of life is having light shone onto it in order to expose abuse.

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Jan

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Francesca O’Neill successful in £5.5 million High Court strike out

Following on from Chambers’ success in the authoritative CN v Poole case, Francesca O'Neill was successful in ...

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