Practice Details

Robert McAllister completed his pupillage with 9 Gough Square after 12 months at a civil/commercial chambers and was taken on as a tenant on 1st April 2004. Robert has a particular interest in Personal Injury, Professional (including Clinical) Negligence and matters relating to contract, tort and land law.

Robert’s PI practice includes written work, regular instructions to appear before the CICAP, in fast-track trials and in applications and assessment of damage hearings at the fast and multi-track level. Robert also appears in detailed assessment costs hearings.

Robert's Police practice focuses on applications for ASBOs, Closure Orders, Cash Seizure and Forfeiture and matters relating to the Police Property Act.

Robert also undertakes Property and L&T work, including boundary disputes, adverse possession claims and has appeared before the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.

In respect of Family work, Robert has acted for London Local Authorities, parents and children within care proceedings and for parents in private law proceedings.

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Cases

Corr v IBC Vehicles  [2008] UKHL 13, (2008) 2 WLR 499. Robert was led by John Foy QC and Andrew Ritchie in representing the successful Claimant’s Fatal Accident Act claim arising from the suicide of her husband caused by the Defendant’s negligence 6 years earlier. Employer’s liability; remoteness of damage; kind of harm; foreseeability and causation. Click here to listen to Robert's podcast regarding this case.

Dumble v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, DC (Scott Baker LJ, Silber J) 6 February 2009. Robert successfully represented the respondent Commissioner of Police in an appeal by way of case stated from the decision of magistrates to make a closure order under section 2 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003. The Divisional Court gave guidance on the making of closure orders where serious nuisance or disorder has reduced or temporarily ceased leading up to the service of the closure notice and the making of the order.

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Seminars

Robert has lectured on a variety of topics covering civil procedure, costs, limitation and substantive law.
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Publications

Books:

Robert contributed to the chapter on overtaking in the APIL 'Guide to RTA Liability', edited by Andrew Ritchie QC. Robert also contributed to the chapter on funding in 9 Gough Square's publication 'Clinical Negligence Claims: A Practical Guide', edited by Grahame Aldous QC.
 
Articles:

Robert has had articles published in JPIL, Legal Week and the EMIS ‘Health and Safety’ publication.

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