Main Areas of Practice:
- Medico-legal cases
- Scientific issues, including DNA, toxicology, blood pattern distribution
- Psychiatric issues, including insanity, diminished responsibility, fitness to plead, etc.
- Medical manslaughter
- Corporate manslaughter
- Serious fraud/international fraud (Serious Fraud Office Panel)
- Health and safety
- Environmental/pollution
- Data protection
- Human rights issues
- Personal injury litigation
- Structured settlements
- Clinical negligence and professional negligence
- Conflict of laws with particular emphasis upon the recovery of damages in other jurisdictions of the European Union
- Environmental health
- Agriculture
- Organo-phosphate/chemical poisoning
- Industrial diseases
- Actions involving police authorities – misfeasance, malicious prosecution, etc.
- Experience of alternative dispute resolution
- Equestrian/equine related litigation
- Health and Safety
- Railway Accidents
- Environmental/pollution
- Environmental Health
- Organo-phosphate/chemical poisoning
- Disciplinary tribunal work including the General Medical Council, Office for the Supervision of Solicitors, General Council of the Bar, police disciplinary procedures.
Clerk(s):
Jo Pickersgill: 0113 203 5500 (jo@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Kirsten Frankland: 0113 203 5501 (kirsten@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Appointments:
- 1986 – Queen’s Counsel
- 1989-1992 - Member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
- Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division And Chancery Division
- Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple
Additional Information:
Specialist Associations:
Personal Injuries Bar Association, Bar European Group, Criminal Bar Association, West Riding Medico-Legal Society, Health & Safety Lawyers Association, Asociación Nacional de Criadores de Caballos de Pura Raza Española, The British Association for the Pure Bred Spanish Horse, The Classical Riding Club, The Association pour la Légèreté en Equitation, The British Charolaise Cattle Society.
Member of the European Circuit and North Eastern Circuit.
Member of the Advisory Panel for ‘Blackstone: Criminal Practice’
Lectures/Seminars:
Principles of Cross Examination in Criminal Cases, Advocacy Skills
Recommendations:
Profile as a leader at the Bar: Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession 2006: Recommended in Crime, Health and Safety and Personal Injury. Quoted extensively in the Legal 500.
Door Tenancies:
Furnival Street Chambers, 32 Furnival Street, London EC4A 1JQ (020 7405 3232)
Seminar handouts:
Recently Published Book Reviews in Equestrian Literature:
