As experts in civil procedure, our barristers advise and represent clients in the County Court and High Court in litigation. We bring deep technical know-how of the Civil Procedure Rules, applied across a wide variety of legal specialisms. We’re able to provide a combination of ad hoc, pragmatic advice to a full-service representation through the lifetime of your litigation.
We’re known for bringing confidence and capability in civil procedure - skills we consider essential prerequisites for all of our barristers. Across the team each individual barrister draws on their own experience in areas which affect both our public and private sector clients.
In court, our advocates are robust and practical; as confident before a High Court Judge on a multi-day discrimination trial as before a Deputy District Judge in the County Court doing costs management.
Our collaborative team acts as advisors and a sounding board to our solicitor colleagues, providing specialist advocacy services whilst complementing the services provided by the self-employed Bar, across a multitude of areas of litigation. These include personal injury, professional and clinical negligence, road traffic, highways, debt recovery, housing and discrimination work.
What sets us apart from other firms and chambers, however, is the integrated nature of our civil litigation teams. Our ambitious barristers have access to our case and file management systems, enabling them to avoid the duplication of work which may otherwise come from instructing counsel.
In November 2021, The Civil Justice Council’s published its interim report on proposed changes to the current Pre-Action Protocols, which included a mandatory Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) gateway. In this article, we look at proposed reforms and consider what this could mean for your case.
The Highway Code has had its first major revision since 2007. Amongst several changes, a new hierarchy has been created, with road users who are most likely to cause harm having the greatest responsibility to reduce the threat they may pose to other road users (rule 204 of the Code).
The decision in Crown Prosecution Service v Aquila Advisory Limited provides welcome clarification on the interplay between POCA and common law recovery. It seems companies may still be subject to the POCA regime and stripped of a potential windfall which the CPS did not avail themselves of in this case.
Civil claims are an ongoing area of concern for schools, with the potential for financial and reputational implications. Here at Browne Jacobson we assist both maintained schools and academies in dealing with the full range of civil claims that schools face.
The issue of Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders and the importance of education providers to act promptly.
In this second Advocacy in Action update, we consider the issue of claims arising from school placements during Covid-19 lockdown.
In 2016, Lord Justice Briggs set out his proposals for restructuring the civil courts and tribunals in England and Wales. The vision for modernising court services and creating the “Online Court” has seen the introduction of online platforms for civil claims in recent years but progress has been described as slow.
The importance of Trusts developing a written plan so that you are ready to act quickly if anti-Covid or anti-vaccination protesters come on to your site to protest.
The Browne Jacobson team of barristers are celebrating their 10th anniversary in December 202 and will be reflecting on their experience at hearings before Courts and Tribunals nationwide to identify key issues and lessons for schools and education providers.
The High Court has ruled in a highly significant case that a tenant’s lease is not frustrated by Brexit.
In Rogerson v Bolsover District Council (2019) the Court of Appeal found against a local authority landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 following a finding of an inadequate inspection regime.
Back in 2017 we wrote about the case of London Borough of Southwark and the City of London v Transport for London [2017] EWCA CIV 1220 that had just been heard in the Court of Appeal.
What happens when an accused cannot stand trial in criminal investigations? There are many situations whereby after a criminal investigation has started, an accused individual can no longer stand trial.
