An early practice in general common law which included a substantial proportion of Personal Injury work has become increasingly specialised. Personal Injury and Professional Negligence work have formed the vast majority of his practice for more than 15 years. Instructions in Personal Injury work are received on behalf of claimants and defendants. Chris has wide experience in handling occupational illness cases and has been instructed by claimants and defendants in occupational stress cases.

In Clinical Negligence work on behalf of claimants Chris has received a diversity of work ranging from dentistry to UV skin treatment and many instructions in gynaecological matters. He has experience in mis-diagnosed cancer cases of various types, as well as plastic surgery and breast re-construction cases. He has been junior counsel in brain damaged children cases on a regular basis. Chris also handles Professional Negligence, including barristers' and solicitors' negligence in handling litigation. He is listed as a Leading Junior in Legal 500 as attracting attention for his workplace accident cases and in Chambers' Clients Guide to the UK Legal Profession as a Leader at the Bar and a popular choice for both personal injury ands professional negligence work..

In Health and Safety criminal cases he appears in the Magistrates Courts and the Crown Court. Instructions have been received from local authorities, public corporations, public companies and small enterprises. The work has been of great variety, from explosions, carbon monoxide poisoning, legionnaires disease, electrocution, asbestos exposure, fairgrounds, the operation of fork lift trucks, unguarded machines, to slipping on oil in a superstore.

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Cases

Craner v Dorset County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1323

Badger v Ministry of Defence - [2005] EWHC 2941 (QB); The Times 30.12.2005

King v Sussex Ambulance National Health Service Trust - [2002] EWCA Civ 935; The Times 25.07.02

Sutherland v Hatton; Somerset County Council v Barber; Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council v Jones; Baker Refractories Ltd v Bishop: - [2002] EWCA Civ 76; [2002] 1 All ER 1; [2002] IRLR 263; The Times 12.02.02



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Seminars

Lecture experience embraces Health and Safety Legislation, Motor Vehicle Personal Injury Claims, Asbestos, WRULDs, and Stress.

Asbestos - Insurance issues
Asbestos - occupiers' liability
Asbestos causation issues
Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure
Asbestos damages and symptom free conditions
Brain injury claims
Causation Update
Construction site claims
Damages Update
Deafness claims
Dermatitis & skin conditions
Employers liability quantum update
Employers liability update
Equipment claims
Expert evidence
Future loss and the Ogden Tables
Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (Vibration White Finger)
Health & Safety Law Update
Interest on damages
Liability update
Limitation in Personal Injury claims
Manual handling
Pain, suffering and loss of amenity
Part 36 Offers & Costs
Periodical Payment Orders
Provisional damages
Restoring a company to the register
RSI
Schedules of loss and expense
Six Pack Update
Spinal injury claims
Stress & harassment: overlap with employment litigation
Stress at work
Trials and Appeals
Tripping and Slipping on the Highway
Work Disease Litigation Conference
Work Diseases Litigation Conference
Workplace claims


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Publications

An author and contributor to:

Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure, published by 9 Gough Square;

APIL Guide to Occupational Illness Claims, Jordans, 2005;

APIL Personal Injury: Law, Practice and Procedure, Jordans

Personal Injury Handbook, Jordans

Personal Injury Claims Manual, Sweet & Maxwell

Health & Safety: The Modern Legal Framework, Butterworths,



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