Personal and Practice Details
Edwin Buckett became a member of chambers in 1990 following pupillage with Duncan MacLeod. In the same year, he was a Pegasus Scholar (Inner Temple) to Toronto, Canada where he worked for a commercial law firm. He is a civil practitioner whose practice encompasses:
Personal Injury cases
Edwin is regularly instructed by trade union solicitors acting for claimants and defendant insurer solicitors. He has a wide experience of industrial accident and disease claims, road traffic and fatal accident matters.
Cases include:
Boyle-v-Thompsons Solicitors [2012] P.N.L.R. 17 High Court professional negligence claim against solicitors who had conduct of a CICA claim. Successfully defeated the claim following a 3 day trial before Mr Justice Coulson.
Kidd-v-Portsmouth City Council [2004] All E.R.(D) 60 CA Negligence claim against the local authority who were responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of a public playpark where a child lost the sight of one eye.
Burden-v-Harrods Limited [2005] PIQR P17 Pre-action compromise between solicitors on the issue of liability and applicability of CPR 14 and whether a Defendant could rely on the rules to displace the compromise.
Cummins-v-Shell International Manning Services Limited [2002] 3 AER 813 Time limits relating to the service of a Claim Form out of the jurisdiction on a foreign defendant.
Police Disputes
Most of the police work undertaken by Edwin comes from police services. In the main, his work consists of civil actions, inquests, applications for judicial review, disciplinary hearings and police led applications for civil orders. He has frequently lectured on matters of police law and has sat as an Advisor to Police Disciplinary Panels (2004 and 2008 Regulation cases) in addition to acting as Independent Counsel in respect of matters of Legal Privilege.
Edwin co-authored Clayton & Tomlinson's "Civil Actions Against The Police" (Sweet & Maxwell) 3rd Edition 2004 and "Preventative Orders" (Law Society Publishing) 2010.
Cases include:
An Informer-v-A Chief Constable [2012] CA 27.2.2012 Acted for the Defendant in respect of a claim for damages brought by a CHIS. Successfully defeated the claim following a trial before Wyn Williams J in the High Court and on appeal with Lord Faulks QC.
Bryant, Paddick, Montague & Prescott-v-Commissioner of Police [2011] All ER (D) 219 Acting for the police in the judicial review claim arising out of the first police investigation into phone hacking.
Sky Andrew-v-NGN, Mulcaire and the Commissioner of Police [2011] 108 LSG 22 Acting for the police in relation to an application for disclsoure, PII issues and redaction of Third Party information.
Phillips-v-NGN, Mulcaire and Commissioner of Police [2010] All E.R.(D) 182 Acted for the police in relation to an application for disclosure of documents under CPR 31.17, the privilege against self incrimination and the application of Section 72 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.
Masterman-v-Commissioner of Police [2010] All E.R. (D) 72 Acted for the police in relation to a case stated that concerned the interpretation of the notification requirements in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for a individual convicted of a sexual offence abroad following the police application for a Notification Order.
Max Clifford-v-News of the World and others [2010] Acted for the police in relation to the Claimant's claim for disclosure of telephone tapping evidence as in on the same basis as case of Taylor
Gordon Taylor-v-News of the World and others [2008-9] Acted for the police in relation to disclosure of telephone tapping evidence that concerned the newspaper and the former royal editor Clive Goodman and the reporter Glenn Mulcaire.
R (on the application of Beck)-v-Chief Constable of Hertfordshire [2009] LLR 191 Acted for Chief Constable in relation to the application of residence as applied to the Firearms Act 1968 in relation to firearms licensing.
R (on the application of the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis)-v-Croydon Crown Court and Burrell [2007] All E.R.(D) 140 Acted for the police in respect of an application for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order made in civil proceedings and the meaning of "serious harm" within the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Kearney-v-Chief Constable of Merseyside and other [2006] Lawtel LTL 23.11.06 Acted for a complainant who successfully struck out a claim by a former Defendant in criminal proceedings relating to historic allegations of child abuse.
Lawrence-v-Commissioner of Police [2006] EWCA Civ 459 Acted for the police in respect of a civil claim brought by a former police informant which raised issues of Public Interest Immunity.
Porter-v-Commissioner of Police [1999] All E. R. (D) 1129 Acted for police in an appeal concerning police powers to intervene in private disputes, trespass and the use of force.
Slater-v-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police [1996] Times Law Reports 23.1.1996, A claim involving title to monies found in a drug factory and the application of “ex turpi causa” maxim.
Property Disputes
Edwin has a wide experience of acting for landlords and local authorities in landlord and tenant and environmental disputes.
Cases include:
London Borough of Camden-v-Gunby [2000] 1 WLR 465 Responsibility and liability of surveyor/managing agent in respect of a nuisance complaint under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 when statutory wording incomplete.
London Borough of Bromley v Morritt [1999] 78 P & CR 37 Statutory obligations of the local authority under the Highways Act 1980 in a drain and sewerage dispute.
Dayani v London Borough of Bromley [1999] 3 EGLR 144 Liability of a tenant for years for acts of permissive waste.
Legal Directories
Edwin has been listed as a leading junior in Police Law in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 since 2003. The Chambers & Partners 2010 guide states that he is a "very conscientious and highly respected junior". The Legal 500 2009 lists him as a "recommended junior".
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