David Pittaway KC is a former Head of Chambers and was Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 2017. Throughout a distinguished career at the highest level, his principal practice areas were medical law, public inquiries, regulatory and disciplinary law, product liability, professional negligence, personal injury, and insurance law. Until his retirement from practice, he was recognized as a Tier 1 Silk in the main legal directories.
He now solely focuses on resolving disputes without a trial, sitting as an arbitrator, mediator, or evaluator. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator. He continues to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge in the KBD/Administrative Court.
David brings to mediation and evaluation his extensive experience as a Deputy High Court Judge, nearly 20 years, in both the KBD and Administrative Court, and from his practice in complex clinical negligence cases, public inquiries, inquests and large-scale litigation.
David’s practice now solely focuses on resolving disputes without a trial, sitting as an arbitrator, mediator, or evaluator. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator.
Over the past 3 years, David has mediated or evaluated in a large number of cases ranging from solicitors’ negligence, catastrophic injuries in clinical negligence, employer’s liability, road traffic accidents, to breach of Articles 2, 6, 8 and 9 of the ECHR and misfeasance in public office. He has built up a substantial following from other sets of chambers and amongst both claimant and defendant insurers’ solicitors.
David sees himself at the forefront of developing the use of evaluative mediation and neutral evaluation across a wide range of cases.
