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Three men convicted of raping a 16 year old girl: 9 Gough Square’s Rosina Cottage and Tom Little have successfully prosecuted an eight week trial at Wood Green Crown Court in which three men were convicted of raping a 16 year old girl, with learning difficulties. The attack left her severely burnt and disfigured after caustic soda was thrown over her.
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9 Gough Square’s Christopher Goddard has had the following success in the Court of Appeal: Craner v Dorset County Council (2008). The appellant local authority appealed against a decision that a personal injury suffered by the respondent involved a breach of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 reg. 12 (3) and of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 reg.4.
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Claimant wins landmark action against the giant American drug company Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited (MSD): Andrew Ritchie represented the Claimant, Mr. Thomas, a 75 year old retired lecturer who was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after his participation in a trial of the Vioxx derivative drug Rofecoxib.
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9 Gough Square's Eleanor Mawrey and Shahram Sharghy are elected to The Bar Council.
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Morgan V UPS Ltd No. 2: Grahame Aldous QC has succeeded in upholding a costs order in favour of a Claimant who, it was held, had exaggerated his symptoms to the medico-legal doctors and failed to be candid with the court and then only beat a Part 36 Payment into Court by £629.
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Chambers UK: 9 Gough Square’s ranking in the Chambers UK Client Guide to the legal profession has increased to 17 barrister listings in Personal Injury, Police Law, Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence with new rankings in Crime, Fraud and Industrial Disease.
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Barrister of the Year: 9 Gough Square's Andrew Ritchie has been named Barrister of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards ceremony held by Legal & Medical Magazine.
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Success for Occupational Stress claim: Grahame Aldous QC and Gaurang Naik have successfully resisted an appeal by the Defendants against an award of damages of £109,754 for psychiatric injury negligently caused by excessive stress in the course of employment.
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Back to the Future: Revitalising the SFO
The UK's Serious Fraud Office was the subject of a review published in June of 2008 which compared the SFO with two prosecutor's offices in the United States. 9 Gough Square’s Andrew Baillie QC along with other experts in the field including; His Honour Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC, Richard Alderman, Jessica de Grazia and David Kirk are gathering to discuss the report.
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Two pupils take tenancy at 9 Gough Square. Two of Chambers’ pupils, Catherine Atkinson and Ben Rodgers, became tenants on 1st October 2008 following their successful pupillage.
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9 Gough Square has been nominated Barristers Chambers of the Year, and Andrew Ritchie Barrister of the Year, for the new Personal Injury Awards 08. The Awards Dinner is being held on Tuesday 4th November at the Café Royal, London.
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Andrew Ritchie has been elected Secretary of the Brain Injury SIG of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
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Simon Carr has been elected Co-ordinator of the APIL Occupational Health Group.
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Gough Square’s ranking in Legal 500’s Client Guide to the legal profession has increased to 20 barrister listings in Personal Injury, Crime: Fraud, Clinical Negligence and Healthcare, Professional Discipline and Regulatory Law (incorporating Police Law) and Health and Safety with in a new ranking for its Crime practice.
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Work Accidents at Sea Conference: 19th November 2008 - Six 9 Gough Square barristers are contributing to this CLT conference providing guidance on the law, procedure and practicalities of claims arising from work accidents on ships and offshore installations. 9 Gough Square's new publication on Work Accidents at Sea. More...
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New Book on Manual Handling Claims published by 9 Gough Square with accompanying short evening seminars in London on Wednesday 10th & 24th September and 22nd October. Brochure (pdf)
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New Books from 9 Gough Square
Work Accidents at Sea: Guide to the nautical world’s language, law, procedure, practicalities of claims and the Admiralty Court.
Manual Handling Claims: Comprehensive analysis and overview of manual handling injuries with the application of common law and statute. More...
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9 Gough Square's 9th Annual Clinical Negligence Seminar & Legal Update will be held on 6th November in London and will cover a wide range of subjects for legal practitioners. It will include a Mental Capacity Act update, healthcare infections, aortic aneurysms, the latest in Human Rights Act damages, MRSA prevention and control, Inquests and the Diana Inquest lessons and trespass to the person. More...
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Andrew Robertson QC successfully prosecuted Anne Darwin in the case of R v Darwin, a trial involving fraud and money laundering charges in Teeside Crown Court, following the disappearance of her husband, John Darwin. John and Anne Darwin were jailed for more than 6 years for staging his death in a canoeing accident.
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Our Senior Civil Clerk, Michael Goodridge, has been elected Chairman of the annual Institute of Barrister's Clerks Conference 2009.
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9 Gough Square is seeking a third six pupil to start in October 2008 as part of its strategy of attracting highly able and committed individuals. More details.
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9 Gough Square's July 2008 Employment Law Bulletin has been published and provides a useful update for solicitors.
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To support our increased business development activity, 9 Gough Square has created a new Marketing Executive position.
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Grahame Aldous QC and Melanie Winter in Judicial Review “crack house” success: 9 Gough Square duo resisted argument seeking to severely limit the circumstances in which there could be a successful application for an extension of a closure order.
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9 Gough Square's Fraud Group has published its first Fraud Bulletin covering a range of subjects complementing our work in this growing area.
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News at 9 published in May 2008 covers 2 recent costs cases, Corr v IBC, complaints under the CJA 2003, liability of local authories for failure to protect, clinical negligence and the Human Rights Act and a range of other news items. Subscribe here.
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9 Gough Square's full day 8th Annual Personal Injury Seminar & Legal Update is at the 5* Swissôtel The Howard, London and provides 6 hours CPD with specialist speakers on ergonomics, pain issues and the effective presentation of cases. Click for a brochure.
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9 Gough Square appoints Grahame Aldous QC as Head of Chambers.
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Claimant compensated for both reduction in residual earning capacity and disadvantage on a future labour market (so called Smith v
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31st March 2008: Tom Little takes over today as Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association from Alexandra Healy for a period of a year having been elected as Assistant Secretary last year. He is one of the youngest ever members of the Criminal Bar to hold the office of Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association
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Grahame Aldous QC took silk on 28th March 2008. The Ministry of Justice's announcement of the new Queen's Counsel list was made on 22nd January 2008.
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Shahram Sharghy has been elected to the Executive Comittee of the Personal Injury Bar Association.
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Acting for the Crown in the Court of Appeal, Simon Carr and Shahram Sharghy were successful in having appeals against convictions for numerous and various sexual offences dismissed.
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Risk assessments are meant to be an exercise by which the employer examines and evaluates all the risks entailed in his operations and takes steps to remove or minimise those risks. They should be a blueprint for action. John Foy QC was involved in the case of Allison v London Underground Ltd which confirmed the importance of risk assessment and the reliance on expert advice to minimise the risk of injury.
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John Foy QC has achieved success in two recent costs cases. They concern the recovery of a success fee in respect of work done on their behalf by costs consultants in costs only proceedings and also whether the 2000 Regulations had been complied with.
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Aileen Downey secures an award of £571,037 from the CICB for a rape victim suffering severe PTSD, some 26 years after the crime.
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Simon Carr was interviewed on the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme on BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme, broadcast on Tuesday 11th March and repeated the following Sunday.
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Junior Counsel to the Crown: Louise Jones has been appointed to the Attorney General's Civil C Panel. The Attorney General maintains four panels of junior counsel to undertake civil and EC work for all Government Departments. See our other barristers
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Groundbreaking settlement of £127,000 for the vicarious liability of the armed forces for a soldier-upon-soldier physical assault. The tort was unconnected to combat or training. Andrew Ritchie and Stuart McKechnie of 9 Gough Square acted for the Claimant.
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Corr v IBC: 9 Gough Square team in key House of Lords win. The House of Lords dismissed the Defendant’s appeal, accepting the Claimant’s argument that her husband’s suicide arising from severe depression caused by an accident at work was not a different kind of harm from personal injury and hence was recoverable if causation was established. The case raised fundamental issues on the scope of the duty of care, foreseeability and kind of harm in personal injury litigation; the defences of novus actus and volenti; the operation of the Fatal Accidents Act; and whether there should be contributory negligence where someone takes their own life. The Claimant, funded by Unite Union (TGWU section), recovered £688,000.00. Counsel for the Claimant: John Foy QC, Andrew Ritchie and Robert McAllister.
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9 Gough Square welcomes new criminal practitioner: John Barker has joined 9 Gough Square’s Crime Group. John called in 1982 and his practice involves heavy crime, much of which is leading work, from fraud and drugs to homicide.
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9 Gough Square will be exhibiting at the TARGET National Pupillage Fair on Saturday 8th March 2008. Students interested in Pupillage Opportunities with Chambers are invited to talk to our barristers on the stand who specialise in civil, crime and family work. Members of Chambers will also be speaking at the Crime, Common Law and Family Law sessions during the day.
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Clinical Negligence and the Human Rights Act: do the cases of Van Colle and Savage create a parallel system of remedies? Linda Nelson looks at the latest developments in the test for a breach of substantive duty in clinical negligence cases.
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Feedback from our recent CPD training: "A more practical course than usual, also the handouts are far easier to use day-to-day. Another session in a few months would be useful” "...a very relevant course and which was very well delivered. I would have no hesitation in attending a further course held by 9 Gough Square or recommending others to attend."
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Protecting Society's Vulnerable: With the balance of new statutory code now implemented by the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Jeremy Ford introduces some of its key procedures in an article first published in the December/January edition of Personal Injury Law Journal. Link to full article.
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Court of Appeal rules costs part of profit or base costs and subject to a success fee in a collective conditional fee agreement: John Foy QC acted for claimant. The result of this case is that a receiving party can instruct a costs draftsman or consultant to conduct the costs assessment and recover a success fee on the costs of the assessment, providing that the CCFA or CFA does not define a disbursement or base costs in such a way as to make it clear that such costs are properly to be treated as a disbursement in the particular agreement.
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Three barristers have joined 9 Gough Square's successful Crime, Fraud and Regulatory groups. On the Attorney General's List of Prosecuting Counsel and graded CPS prosecutors Claire Harden, Gareth Munday and James Thacker have well established practices prosecuting and defending in a wide range of work. Their practices complement 9 Gough Square's work and high standards for client service.
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Emma-Jane Mahood has joined 9 Gough Square to specialise in Family Law. Having gained experience in crime, civil and family law, Emma was called to both the England & Wales and Northern Ireland Bars in 2001. She has experience of family work in the Family Proceedings Court, the County Court and the High Court, covering a wide range of family issues.
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Grahame Aldous is listed as a leading junior for his Professional Negligence work in Chambers UK Client Guide 2008. He is singled out for his work on cases involving claims against solicitors, accountants, surveyors and insurance brokers.
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9 Gough Square is listed as a leading set in Police Law: Mainly Defendant in Chambers UK Client Guide 2008 with Duncan Macleod, Vincent Williams, Jonathan Loades and Edwin Buckett continuing to be listed as leading juniors.
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9 Gough Square is a Leading Set in Personal Injury in the new Chambers UK Client Guide with John Foy QC a leading silk and Christopher Goddard, Nicolas Hillier, Roger Hiorns, Andrew Ritchie, and Jacob Levy leading juniors.
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Grahame Aldous is ranked as a leading junior for his Clinical Negligence work in Chambers UK Client Guide 2008. He is described as a “calm negotiator” to researchers. “Thoroughly nice,” he also wins plaudits for his skill as a mediator.
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9 Gough Square is listed as a Leading Set for its Personal Injury work in Chambers UK Client Guide 2008. 9 Gough Square also continues to be ranked in Police Law and has 11 barristers who are individually ranked in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Police Law and Professional Negligence. Chambers UK Client Guide 2008 was published in November 2007.
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The Times featured Andrew Baillie QC as its Lawyer of the Week on 7th November 2007 following his successful prosecution of the defendants found guilty of fraud after the collapse of Independent Insurance.
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Quoted in Legal Week about the number of pupillages available to students each year, Tom Little welcomed new figures showing that, despite pressure and concerns, chambers are still offering significant numbers of pupillages. "This is good for the future and diversity of the profession."
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What do young barristers think? Bar Conference 2007: The Times asked Eleanor Mawrey about the main challenges facing the Bar? More details.
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The House of Lords published its opinions on 17th October 2007 in the Rothwell group of cases and unanimously decided against the Claimants by holding that where pleural plaques do not cause any symptoms then there can be no recovery in negligence. The Lords left open the question of recovery in contract but members of Chambers’ Asbestos Claims Group doubt whether in fact this is a viable option for Claimants.
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Former directors of Independent Insurance Group PLC convicted by a jury of offences of conspiracy to defraud in one of the largest investigations ever conducted by the Serious Fraud Office. Andrew Baillie QC and Emily Radcliffe appeared for the prosecution. Full report.
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Michael Bright, Philip Condon and Dennis Lomas, former directors of Independent Insurance Group PLC, have been convicted by a jury of offences of conspiracy to defraud. Andrew Baillie QC and Emily Radcliffe appeared for the prosecution at the trial lasting 76 days at Southwark Crown Court. The case followed one of the largest investigations ever conducted by the Serious Fraud Office. Independent, the ninth biggest general insurer in the UK, collapsed with a deficit of about £1 billion.
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9 Gough Square has become the first Chambers to be awarded APIL Corporate Accreditation status confirming our barristers' status as experts in Personal Injury.
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Two 9 Gough Square pupils take tenancy at 9 Gough Square: Jennifer Scott and Ed Lamb became tenants on 1st October 2007 following their successful pupillage.
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The next Bar Returners’ Course will have 4 speakers from 9 Gough Square. Grahame Aldous, Rosina Cottage, Christopher Stephenson and Michael Goodridge will all be speaking at the 2nd Bar Returners Course on 29th October 2007. Grahame Aldous, Vice-Chair of the Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee said “This is a great opportunity to spread 9 Gough Square’s successful diversity and flexible working practices to the Bar as a whole”.
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£3m settlement approved for claimant with spastic quadraplegic cerebral palsy after defendants' failure to carry out caesarean section birth. Andrew Ritchie for the claimant. Detailed quantum for pain, suffering and loss of amenity, past and future costs with periodical payment orders.
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Grahame Aldous will be addressing the 2007 APIL Clinical Negligence Conference in Birmingham on 5th October with an update on Clinical Negligence law. For those who miss him on that occasion, or want CPD points for the following year, he will also be addressing the 2007 9 Gough Square Clinical Negligence Seminar at the Law Society on 15th November.
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Inquest raises significant issues about Crisis Resolution treatment in the community. Grahame Aldous represented the Hospital Trusts in the inquest into a suicide with history of mental illness and bi-polar disorder who jumped from a 4th floor walkway at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
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Tom Little secured the acquittal at Maidstone Crown Court of Ronald Wood who was charged with an alleged serious and complex Tax Fraud. The trial followed a five year investigation by the Inland Revenue.
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Identified as a Leading Set in Police Law, Duncan Macleod, Vincent Williams, Jonathan Loades and Edwin Buckett are listed as Leading Juniors in Legal 500's Client Guide for this area of practice.
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9 Gough Square is ranked as a leading set in Personal Injury in Legal 500's Client Guide to the legal profession. John Foy QC is listed as a leading silk along with 6 leading juniors and Andrew Ritchie referred to particularly as "star junior".
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9 Gough Square’s Fraud barristers have achieved a new ranking in Legal 500’s Client Guide to the legal profession. Philip Henry, Rosina Cottage and Tom Little are listed as leading juniors in the Guide which confirms that: "Fraud and corruption trials have been a speciality of 9 Gough Square."
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Duncan Macleod is listed as a leading junior in in Clinical Negligence in the Legal 500 Client's Guide.
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Vernon v Butcher, the Court of Appeal case featuring Emily Radcliffe of 9 Gough Square, is one of the cases appearing in the latest Update of Sweet & Maxwell’s Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice & Procedure.
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Andrew Ritchie has been nominated as “PI Junior of the Year 2007” (Chambers & Partners).
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Andrew Baillie QC and Emily Radcliffe are prosecuting three former directors of Independent Insurance Group PLC, following one of the largest investigations by the Serious Fraud Office. Independent, the ninth biggest general insurer in the UK, collapsed with a deficit of about £1 billion.
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9 Gough Square to continue family practice in a “common law” ethos: Following the departure of 9 specialist family barristers to a Temple based set of chambers, 9 Gough Square will continue to provide family law services to solicitors and local authorities.
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Hayward v Argos Limited: Tara Vindis represented the Claimant in this Union case where the Argos employee succeeded in his manual handling claim.
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Grahame Aldous will be chairing a London Conference on "MRSA and other Hospital Acquired Infections" on 2nd November 2007 overcoming the common problem areas in liability and causation and understanding the clinical issues.
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Raj Shetty and Linda Nelson will be providing a practical analysis of problem cases at a forthcoming "Difficult Road Traffic Accidents" Conference in London on 21st September 2007.
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Duncan MacLeod has been instructed by the Metropolitan Police in the Inquests into the deaths of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed.
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Ford mechanic recovers £500,000 after suffering two accidents at work. Andrew Ritchie represented the Claimant in this Amicus funded case which settled 2 days before trial.
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Clinical Negligence Issues: Get up to date at 9 Gough Square's full day seminar on 15th November 2007 at The Law Society, Chancery Lane, London. More details.
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9 Gough Square has raised £675 for The Mesothelioma Research Fund through income from its publication Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure, now into a second print, and an associated series of seminars for solicitors specialising in this area of practice. Our barristers specialising in Asbestos Claims.
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New Court of Appeal guidance on the use of informants and disclosure: Eleanor Mawrey has been acting for many years as junior Counsel in the “Pakistan Controlled Delivery” cases referred to the Court of Appeal by the CCRC.
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Successful out of court settlements achieved by Adam Dawson for two car crash victims: In Stuart v Gruyer the settlement was £355,000 and in Rowley v Freeman, £201,000 was won for the claimant.
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Bozzie Sheffi was elected Chair of the Association of Women Barristers in July 2007
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Esther Pounder has been elected as coordinator of the New to PI Group recently formed by the APIL specifically to support new personal injury lawyers.
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Simon Carr has been elected as south eastern representative on the PIBA Executive Committee.
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The Lord Chancellor has re-appointed Tom Little to the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee for a period of four years. Tom was originally appointed in 2004 and was involved in the drafting of the Criminal Procedure Rules which came in to force in April 2005.
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Claimant wins damages of £700,000 after injury caused by Defendant who lost control of the car he was driving while holding a mobile phone. Andrew Ritchie represented the 29 year old builder from Leicester who suffered an above knee leg amputation, PSTD and an adjustment disorder. Issues included his varied earnings track record, early retirement, dissatisfaction with his NHS prosthetic limb and need for a spare swimming limb.
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Grahame Aldous, Vice–Chair of The Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee, calls for more attention to be given to work/life balance than profits per equity partner or member of chambers.
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New Court of Appeal guidance on law and experts in boundary disputes: Emily Radcliffe represented the successful appellant in Vernon v Butcher [2007] All ER (D) 302 (Mar): The Court of Appeal gave new guidance on 16th March 2007 on the instruction of experts in boundary disputes, including the information that should be available to them and the nature of their reports.
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Driving for charity:
Simon Carr and Andrew Ritchie successfully completed their Rally across Europe, crossing the finishing line at 6.00pm on Saturday the 5th May. Details
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Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure: 9 Gough Square has published a book to help solicitors and others involved in this specialist area of personal litigation. It contains concise and informative analysis on the history and prevalence of asbestos, breach of duty, causation, apportionment, damages and practical guidance on case management and court procedure, identifying the appropriate defendant and how to proceed against defunct companies. Our barristers specialising in Asbestos Claims.
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The 6th Edition of the Ogden Tables with explanatory notes for use in personal injury and fatal accident cases was published on 3rd May 2007. Showing some changes as a result of changes in mortality rates, the revised notes contain the most radical departure from all previous editions.
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The High Court held that the family court could not order a blood sample lawfully retained by the police, or the DNA profile derived from it, to be used to establish parentage in care proceedings.
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Tom Little on IBC clerks' question time panel: Tom Little joined a Question Time panel at the Institute of Barristers' Clerks' Annual Conference.
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Tom Little has been elected as Assistant Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association and will take over in April 2008 as Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association for a period of a year.
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Dispute resolution review recommends radical change: The DTI has published an independent review of employment dispute resolution procedures, calling for a radical overhaul of the current approach to resolving workplace disputes. Susan Belgrave contributed to the Employment Lawyers Association submission to the review.
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Thirteen members of Chambers ranked in the Law Directories: More details available here.
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Christopher Stephenson settles long running mesothelioma case: The claim in P v ECR Wigmore Ltd for an apprentice exposed to asbestos between 1968 and 1974 was listed for trial on 28 March 2007 in the High Court and settled 2 weeks beforehand for £425,000. The Claimant was diagnosed in 2002 and underwent a radical pneumonectomy in March 2003. He remains alive, but with a very limited life expectancy.
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9 Gough Square barristers on Prosecuting Counsel List
The new Attorney General's List of Prosecuting Counsel includes:
Philip Henry (grade A);
Rosina Cottage (grade B);
Tom Little (grade B);
Eleanor Mawrey (grade C), and
Emily Radcliffe (grade C).
The List helps to ensure that prosecutions are carried out fairly, robustly and professionally.
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New Asbestos "Watershed" Date: County Court rules that employers should have eliminated asbestos dust within 8 months of 1965 “watershed” Sunday Times article. Roger Hiorns represented the Claimant in Jones v Metal Box Ltd.
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House of Lords’ decision on fraud interlocutory appeals:
Fred Ferguson and Tim Godfrey were instructed by the Serious Fraud Office to resist an interlocutory appeal which was heard by the House of Lords in December 2006 and dismissed on 28 February 2007.
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Groundbreaking settlement of £127,000 for the vicarious liability of the armed forces for a soldier-upon-soldier physical assault. The tort was unconnected to combat or training. Andrew Ritchie and Stuart McKechnie of
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Companies Act 2006; Directors’ Duties: Al Hogarth reviews the Companies Act 2006, one of the longest pieces of legislation ever passed in the UK.
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Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure: 9 Gough Square is offering personal injury solicitors a series of seminars on the latest on Asbestos Claims to complement its forthcoming publication by five barristers from its Occupational Illness Team. Brochure.
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Horch v Thames Trains: One of the last cases arising from the Paddington Rail Crash was settled for a total compensation payment of £1.5 million. Andrew Ritchie represented the Claimant who was in the second carriage of the Thames Train which crashed head on into a Great Western train on 5th October 1999.
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Kemp & Kemp: The Quantum of Damages (2007 New Releases); Andrew Ritchie is on the editorial board and is also general editor of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure.
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Dependants receive damages from MIB where their deceased provider knew driver was uninsured: Andrew Ritchie represented the widow and the child dependants in the Court of Appeal in Philips v Rafiq on 23rd January 2007.
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News at 9, Chambers' latest newsletter for clients containing a range of legal reports can be found here.
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Christmas and New Year opening at 9 Gough Square
Chambers' clerks room will be open on Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th December from 10am to 4pm. We reopen for normal business on Tuesday 2nd January at 8:30am. We wish all our clients a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
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Grahame Aldous tops poll in PNBA election and has been re-elected to the Executive Committee of Professional Negligence Bar Association for a further term of 2 years.
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Grahame Aldous wins stress at work claim in High Court: Judgment on 20th December 2006 for £64,693 plus indemnity costs for Claimant health visitor who was subjected to undue stress in a department in crisis, and whose vulnerability revealed at an individual personal review was ignored, resulting in a nervous breakdown. Defendant had refused an offer to mediate.
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NHS Redress Act to "provide a speedy and cost effective remedy in low value clinical negligence claims". Stephen Walker, from the NHS Litigation Authority, told delegates at 9 Gough Square's Annual Clinical Law and Update seminar that the scheme should provide a speedy and cost effective remedy in low value clinical negligence claims, and that it was not intended to replace litigation in higher value claims.
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Simon Carr raises £8000 in charity auction: he was the auctioneer at a fund raising evening and raised just under £8000 from items ranging from laser eye treatment to a signed England football shirt. The musical charity evening held at St Bartholomew’s Hospital raised over £20,000 for Mesothelioma Research.
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Emily Radcliffe elected to South Eastern Circuit in the under 10 years’ call category. Emily joined Chambers in 2004 after a successful pupillage and has rapidly developed a busy practice covering prosecution and serious fraud as well as personal injury, care proceedings and private family disputes.
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Tom Little re-elected to Bar Council. He has been an elected member of the Bar Council since 2002 and has been re-elected in the over 7 years’ call category for three years from 1st January 2007.
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£1.5m Catastrophic Injuries claim settles. PI team member Stuart McKechnie has settled a long running case involving a catastrophically injured claimant for just over £1.5 million.
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Poonam Bhari and Tom Little - views published in The Times. Views about the pressures on the Bar, from Poonam Bhari and Tom Little were summarised in The Times, in advance of the 2006 Bar Conference, under an article “People do this job because they care about it”.
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Chambers first to become APIL training provider: 9 Gough Square is the first barristers' chambers to be accepted as an external training provider for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
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Clinical Negligence seminar accredited CPD for APIL members. Members of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers can now rely on 9 Gough Square's "appealing" 7th Annual Clinical & Legal Update to make up their specialist APIL training needs.
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9 Gough Square recommended in Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession
Fourteen barristers from 9 Gough Square are recommended in Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession and 6 specialist practice areas have been ranked in the Guide.
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Tom Little on Bar Conference press panel
Tom Little will be part of a Press Briefing panel dealing with issues arising at the Bar's forthcoming conference.
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9 Gough Square lectures for Charity
Our Personal Injury Team has teamed up with Reading based, Boyes Turner, to provide solicitors in the area with a legal update on personal injury law. Proceeds will go to Headway Thames Valley - the brain injury association.
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Employment Law Bulletin
9 Gough Square's October Employment Law Bulletin looks at the Employment Tribunal procedure rules and whether secret recordings of disciplinary panel private recordings can be used in evidence. Sign up to receive your copy.
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Highway authority's inspection regime and tilting manhole covers
Giles Mooney acted for the respondent. The case considered the scope of the highway authority’s duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 and to what extent it could rely on the statutory defence set out in Section 58 in circumstances of a Claimant injuring herself on a defective manhole cover.
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Clinical Negligence Seminar - 14th November, London
9 Gough Square's Clinical Negligence Seminar and Legal Update Programme has been described "as appealing as any conference I have seen for a long time". Book your place now.
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Privacy in Family Proceedings
Poonam Bhari reports on a Young Bar Conference/FLBA session on Privacy in Family Proceedings on 7th October 2006.
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Legal 500 lists Duncan Macleod as Leading Junior in Clinical Negligence and Healthcare
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Legal 500 lists 9 Gough Square high as leading set in Personal Injury
The Legal 500 lists 9 Gough Square as a leading set in Personal Injury, including 5 members of the Personal Injury Team; In addition to John Foy QC, the members listed are: Nicolas Hillier, Roger Hiorns, Andrew Ritchie and Jacob Levy. Duncan Macleod is listed as a Leading Junior in Clinical Negligence and Healthcare.
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Legal 500 lists 9 Gough Square as leading set in Police Law
In addition to John Foy QC, the Team members listed are: Duncan Macleod, Edwin Buckett, Jonathan Loades and Vincent Williams.
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News at 9 Gough Square published
Chambers' October 2006 Newsletter to clients News at 9 Gough Square contains 8 pages of information about the cases and law in which members of Chambers' have been involved over the last few months. To sign up to receive our Newsletters, specialist law bulletins and invitations to our seminars click here.
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Child Law Update
In an article first published in New Law Journal, Oliver Millington of 9 Gough Square, addresses the identification of children in family proceedings; recognition of the decision of a Spanish court allowing children to remain with their father despite their wrongful removal to the UK; and disclosure of information between social services departments and the police.
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9 Gough Square takes on three new pupils
Three new pupils, Toby Brown, Ed Lamb and Jennifer Scott started with Chambers on 3rd October 2006.
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ASBO handed to violent drug dealer
Robert McAllister appeared for the Metropolitan Police in a successful application for an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) against a 26 year old who recruited vulnerable children to deal drugs and who used violence to keep them in line.
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9 Gough Square pupils take tenancy.
Two of Chambers’ pupils, Esther Maclachlan and Al Hogarth, became tenants on 2nd October 2006 following their successful pupillage.
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A trial Judge must be consistent in his consideration of all relevant evidence when making necessary findings of fact:
Hardisty v Aubrey [2006] EWCA Civ 1196.
Counsel for the Appellant: Nicolas Hillier.
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Client care letter did not constitute a conditional fee agreement
John Foy QC wins appeal on costs. The Court of Appeal hold that a client care letter which provided for a client to receive initial advice on prospects of success without paying a fee did not constitute a funding agreement which breached the regulations governing Conditional Fee Agreements.
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Fatal accidents, uninsured drivers and MIB