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It has been a fantastic month for Ropewalk Chambers, following our recent achievements in the Legal 500. Ropewalk Chambers’ expertise in the field of industrial disease has once again been recognised in the latest edition of Chambers & Partners. Ropewalk is one of only four sets across all circuits to be ranked for Industrial Disease.
We are also very pleased that the Ropewalk Disease Blog has also been recognised in this year’s entry:
“The clerks are responsive and accommodating, and the chambers provides blogs and online training at a high level.”
The full entry can be found here.
Barristers ranked in this field are:
I blogged on law and practice in relation to fundamental dishonesty in January 2021, and now update that blog with further dispatches from the front line. The Incidence of Fundamental Dishonesty: An Unscientific Snapshot of 2022 In order to have a sense of how my own experience was mirrored by colleagues in Ropewalk Chambers, I conducted a…
In Fawcett v TUI UK Ltd [2023] EWHC 400 (KB), Dexter Dias KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, considered an application by the Claimant to exclude the Defendant’s expert evidence in a personal injury trial. The application was dismissed. Background The Claimant sued the Defendant as administratrix of the estate of her late husband Mr…
This blog reviews the High Court decision in Barry v Ministry of Defence [2023] EWHC 459 (KB) and the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the application of the Moore et al. Guidelines for Diagnosis and Quantification of Military Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. Those who practise in the field of noise induced hearing loss (“NIHL”) are waiting with bated breath for some authoritative…
