Hailsham Chambers

Hailsham Chambers welcomes costs specialist Thomas Mason

We are delighted to announce that Thomas Mason has joined Hailsham Chambers.

Oxford Property Investments Limited v Sapphire Developments Solihull Limited & Anor

In this article, Tom Stafford discusses the recent High Court decision of Oxford Property Investments Limited v Sapphire Developments Solihull Limited & Anor [2023] EWHC 624 (Comm), in which the court struck out a loss of profits claim against a firm of solicitors.

03/04/23

Solicitors’ Professional Indemnity Insurance – When does one partner ‘condone’ the dishonest conduct of another partner?

The Commercial Court has today handed down judgment in Discovery Land v AXIS.

31/03/23

Section 14A and knowledge of attribution: Witcomb v J Keith Park Solicitors [2023] EWCA Civ 326

A personal injury claim is settled. Later, the claimant’s condition dramatically worsens in ways not anticipated in the settlement. At what point must the Claimant decide to sue his legal advisers for under-settling his claim?

21/03/23

Will the decision in Maguire mark the beginning of a shift in the application of Article 2 in healthcare inquests?

Eleven years on from Rabone: will the Supreme Court’s decision in Maguire mark the beginning of a shift in the application of article 2 to inquest healthcare cases...

17/03/23

Alternative Dispute Resolution

David Pittaway KC spoke at and co-chaired a Westminster Legal Policy Forum conference on the Future Direction of Dispute Resolution.

14/03/23

Welcome Leah Ashcroft our new Junior Clerk

We are delighted to welcome our new Junior Clerk Leah Ashcroft!

14/03/23

Legal Cheek Awards 2023

We are excited to be shortlisted for the Best Chambers for Quality of Work, Colleague Supportiveness, and for Training!

08/03/23

Wasted Costs in the Commercial Court

The Commercial Court has sent a clear message in this important wasted costs case. William Flenley KC acted for the successful party.

08/03/23

Imran Benson successfully defended Gunnercooke in a £5m solicitors negligence claim

Imran Benson successfully defended Gunnercooke in a £5m solicitors’ negligence claim

15/02/23

Applications for Hailsham’s 2023 mini pupillage programme are now open

Applications for Hailsham’s 2023 mini pupillage programme are now open! This year we will again be running workshop-style open days both online and in-person.

Click here for further details.

14/02/23

The Charter for Fairness

In their article in this month’s Counsel magazine, Nicola Rushton KC and Yasmin Yasseri explain why all Chambers should adopt the The Chancery Bar Association's Charter for Fairness, which sets out 12 recommendations on work allocation, career development, marketing and earnings.

18/01/23

Snow v Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Trust

This is an important and wide ranging judgment dealing with the standard of care when introducing a new surgical technique to a hospital. It covers clinical governance, NICE and other guidelines, training, mentoring, supervision, documentation of patient selection and MDT decisions, Montgomery consent,

03/01/23

Two cases about QOCS where the claimant accepted a Part 36 offer late

Two recent cases make clear that defendants to personal injury and clinical negligence claims cannot generally enforce orders for costs in their favour when a claim settles via Part 36.

09/12/22

Introducing Hailsham Chambers

Prospective applicants are invited to join members and clerks from Hailsham Chambers at our informal drinks event

08/12/22

Stephen Sizer Tribunal decision

The Clergy Disciplinary Tribunal’s decision on a complaint of antisemitism made by the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews against the Rev Stephen Sizer was handed down by David Pittaway KC

10/11/22

Fighting talk: ‘swords’, ‘shields’ and (non) compliance with clinical guidelines

Bramble Badenach-Nicolson considers the judgment in O’Brien v Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.

02/11/22

Ten Fun Facts about Belsner

Mark Friston manages to find Ten Fun Facts about the Belsner judgment.

28/10/22

Belsner v Cam Legal: Claimant Ordered to Repay £295.50

The long-awaited Court of Appeal decision in Belsner v Cam Legal Services Limited was handed down yesterday.

10/10/22

Harrington Scott Ltd v. Coupe Bradbury Solicitors Ltd - provoking thoughts on, and of, interest

The defendant in Harrington Scott Ltd v Coupe Bradbury Solicitors Ltd was hugely successful in having the claim struck out for abuse of process.

07/10/22

Ventures Food Limited v Little Dessert Shop Ltd [2022] EWHC

HHJ Richard Williams (sitting as a High Court Judge) held that significant litigation misconduct by third parties (who had been controlling the litigation conduct of a named party to proceedings) was sufficient to make an order for non-party costs against them.

06/10/22

The momentous decision of the Supreme Court in BTI V Sequana

When does the treatment of the company’s interests as being equivalent to the shareholders’ interests cease to be justifiable?

30/09/22

The approach to evidence - a legal update

The Court has recently considered the approach to be taken to oral evidence in a number of cases.

13/09/22

New Pupils

Happy to welcome our two new pupils Rhiannon Frowde and Lewis Dunsmure!

13/09/22

UK Bar Awards 2022 Shortlisted

We are delighted to announce that Hailsham has been shortlisted as Clinical Negligence and Professional Negligence set of the Year. Congratulations to all those nominated!