Southwark and Lambeth Councils have appointed 9 Gough Square for barristers' services

9 Gough Square barrister Stuart McKechnie wins Barrister of the Year Award at the 2011 Personal Injury Awards.

John Law wins Supreme Court case for Serious Organised Crime Agency

9 Gough Square's Stuart McKechnie joins technical board to advise the Law Society on its personal injury accreditation scheme

Nick Hillier recovered £440,000 for a claimant suffering from pain resulting from a whiplash injury.

9 Gough Square's listing in the 2011 Chambers UK Client's Guide to the Legal Profession has increased to 17 barristers. This includes listings in Personal Injury, Crime, Police Law, Fraud: Criminal and Clinical Negligence.

Re: C v. CICAP.

Ed Lamb represented a diabetic applicant permanently disabled by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following an attack at work involving an assailant armed with a hammer.

A Defendant prosecuted by James Thacker receives 12 years' imprisonment for importation of cocaine.

Raj Shetty has been appointed a GMC legal assessor to advise the fitness to practice panels and interim orders panels.

9 Gough Square offers its congratulations to the Rt Hon Ken Clarke QC on his appointment as Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor.

Ken Clarke is a former member of 9 Gough Square, from when we were in Chambers at 2 Dr Johnson’s Buildings in the Temple, in addition to his practice at No3 Chambers in Birmingham.

Tim Godfrey, instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service, East Central London, successfully resisted a judicial review of the CPS’s decision to prosecute at a hearing in the administrative court on 2 March 2010.

Applications to join the London External Advocate Scheme by barristers from 9 Gough Square have been accepted.

John Foy QC and Stuart McKechnie have completed a multi-million pound catastrophic brain injury claim that has been approved by the High Court.

Part 36 Offers accepted before issue - Can they be set aside?

Kate Lamont summarises Andrew Ritchie QC's case of Kucera v Quattro Holding UK Limited.

The new 15th edition of Munkman on Employer’s Liability has been published by Butterworths LexisNexis with a new chapter on Shipping Accidents by Grahame Aldous QC, Co-author, with Linda Nelson, of the 9 Gough Square book Work Accidents at Sea.

Aileen Downey and Rajeev Shetty have been made Recorders.   

9 Gough Square offers true “No Win No Fee” CFA.

Rajeev Shetty successfully applied for a Foreign Travel Order against Mr Paul Gadd (otherwise known as the disgraced rock star Gary Glitter) on 23rd September 2009.

Edwin Buckett has achieved a £675,000 settlement on behalf of a widow and her son which was approved by His Honour Judge Harris Q.C. in the High Court sitting at Northampton.

Confiscation Order obtained in the sum of £253,375 from absent defendant

Grahame Aldous QC has been elected a Master of the Bench of Inner Temple.

Philip Henry’s recent article in No Bar to the Bar, outlines how attitudes to race among chambers have positively changed. Philip states “my impression was that merit had become genuinely more important as a guiding criterion rather than other factors, like race.”

APIL Guide to RTA Liability receives glowing review
The APIL Guide to RTA Liability is a major new addition to the APIL Guides series on this core area of PI practice. Written by 9 Gough Square's specialist PI practitioners, it provides detailed practical guidance.

Published by Jordan Publishing. For further information and to order a copy please click here

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.

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.

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...

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 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.

To support our increased business development activity, 9 Gough Square has created a new Marketing Executive position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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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Tom Little on IBC clerks' question time panel: Tom Little joined a Question Time panel at the Institute of Barristers' Clerks' Annual Conference.

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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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.

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.

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.

Companies Act 2006; Directors’ Duties: Al Hogarth reviews the Companies Act 2006, one of the longest pieces of legislation ever passed in the UK.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

£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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

Privacy in Family Proceedings
Poonam Bhari reports on a Young Bar Conference/FLBA session on Privacy in Family Proceedings on 7th October 2006.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fatal accidents, uninsured drivers and MIB
Andrew Ritchie of 9 Gough Square and General Editor, Kemp Law Practice and Procedure, reports a recent decision in which the dependents were awarded damages where the provider passenger with knowledge was killed by an uninsured driver.

Inconsistencies in medical records
Stuart McKechnie outlines a common situation, in his article published in News@ 9 Gough Square, where a claimant’s evidence at trial is contradicted by comments that have previously been recorded in medical records and examines the stautus of these records and the approach necessary when dealing with such inconsistencies.

Clinical and Legal Update Seminar
9 Gough Square’s annual flagship Clinical and Legal Update will take place in London on 14th November 2006.

Video Conferencing at 9 Gough Square
Next time you are organising a conference with a barrister at 9 Gough Square, consider a video conference and save yourself and your client the travel time and travel costs involved in coming to London.

Giles Eyre joins CEDR Solve Panel of Lead Mediators
CEDR Solve, Europe's leading commercial mediation provider whose mediators regularly receive excellent feedback from clients and lawyers alike, has invited 9 Gough Square’s Giles Eyre to join their Panel of Lead Mediators.

Young Bar Conference
Tom Little, Chairman of the Young Bar, to open and speak at this year’s Young Bar Conference on Saturday October 7th 2006

Tom Little to chair Young Bar Forum 
Tom Little of 9 Gough Square and Chairman of the Young Bar, will Chair the Young Bar Forum at the Bar Conference on Saturday November 5th 2006

Corr v IBC Vehicles - Fatal Accidents: Suicide, Causation and Remoteness
A recent case won by John Foy QC and Andrew Ritchie of 9 Gough Square which broke new ground on foreseeability and causation and clearly defined the law in Personal Injury and fatal accident claims.  The case is being appealed to the House of Lords.

Personal Injury Claims in Employment Tribunals
Susan Belgrave, Philip Jones and Laura Elfield from our Employment and PI Teams to be leading speakers at 2006 Personal Injury Claims in Employment Tribunals Conference.

Edwin Buckett to speak at Police Law Conference
On 18th September 2006, Edwin Buckett from our Police Law Team will speak on Negligence and Malfeasance at the 2006 Conference on Civil Actions Against the Police.

Latest updates on Employment law,
New CRE Code published on Racial Equality.

Susan Belgrave and Philip Jones to speak at Employment Tribunal Rules seminars
Professional Solutions have signed up barristers from 9 Gough Square's Employment Team for their Autumn Solicitors CPD Legal Skill Programme at two evening seminars on 16th and 18th October 2006.

Family Law Bulletin

Myatt and Others v National Coal Board
John Foy QC has been instructed by APIL to make submissions on behalf of its members on relevance of before the event legal expenses insurance.

Chambers Annual Garden Party
On Friday 21st  July 2006 Chambers held its annual Garden Party to thank those who have instructed us over the last year.

Giles Mooney successfully appeals Animals Act case in the Court of Appeal
On 26th June 2006 Lord Chief Justice Phillips, Lord Justice Buxton and Lord Justice Sedley gave Judgment in Clark v Bowlt, the first Animals Act 1971 case to reach the Court of Appeal since the House of Lords Judgement in Mirvahedy v Henley.

K v Birmingham City Council – Damages for assault in a children’s home.
William Norris QC of 39 Essex Street and Grahame Aldous of 9 Gough Square achieve an award of £1.2 million for a handicapped child who was assaulted and blinded in a local authority care home.

Police Officer not employee nor to be treated as such for the purposes of Section 145(4)(a) RTA 1988- Miller v QBE [2006] EWHC 1529 (QB)
A police officer was run down by a criminal who stole his police car. The Claimant was very seriously injured.  He sued the criminal and sought satisfaction from the Road Traffic Act insurer of the police car.

Godbold v Mahmood – One of the first Judicially determined Periodical Payments Orders
Nick Hillier of 9 Gough Square wins substantial damages for a serious brain injury suffered by the Claimant as a result of a road traffic accident. Substantial portion of the future losses made subject of one of the first judicially determined Periodical Payment Orders.

Harris v BRB (Residuary) & EWS Railways – Update on occupational deafness claims
Nick Hillier of 9 Gough Square wins appeal on liability on respect of noise induced hearing loss and Lord Neuberger provided a rule of thumb on the threshold in occupational deafness claims.

Toytemur v Manchester – Settlement of £110,000 for dependants of asylum seeker working illegally in the UK.
Nick Hillier of 9 Gough Square achieves a settlement of £110,000 for the dependants of an asylum seeker killed by injuries as a result of an accident at work

No sanctuary for first instance judges behind a finding of fact. 
Hardisty v Aubrey - Court of Appeal (13th July 2006, sitting in Cardiff)

9 Gough Square launches new look Website
After several months of headaches and hiccups, it's finally here;

Negligence claim against the Police for failure to maintain records on the Police National computer
Claim in negligence against the police as a result of their failure to ensure that the information stored on the police national computer was accurate. Simon Carr acts for Claimant against Metropolitan Police in Winchester.