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Legal Services Commission v Rasool [2008] All ER (D) 43 (Mar); [2008] WLR (D) 75; The Times 21st April 2008
Limitation case concerning an action to recover costs under a revoked legal aid certificate. 

Catholic Care and Home Office v Young [2007] All ER 895
Limitation in case of historic sex abuse.

Bright BJ (a minor by her father and litigation friend Peter Bright) v Barnsley District General Hospital NHS Trust [2005] Lloyds Rep Med 449 ; LTL/31/1/06
Cerebral palsy caused by profound hypoxia at 36 weeks. Failure to diagnose IUGR.

Dowson v Sunderland H.A. [2004] Lloyds Law Rep. Med 177 S
Cerebral palsy alleged to have arisen consequent upon cerebral infarct.

Re X Trust [2002]
Wrongful insemination of a mother with another man’s sperm.

AB V National Blood Transfusion Serivce [2001] 3 ALL ER
Hepatitis C Transfusion Litigation.

Palmer v Marks and Spencer PLC [2001] EWCA Civ 1328
Application of Work Place Regulations to minor tripping hazard.

Schofield v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [1998] 1C.R. 193
Nervous shock sustained by policewoman following firearms discharge.

Swain v Puri [1996] P.I.Q.R. p442
Child trespasser and the ambit of 1984 Occupiers Liability Act.

Hepworth v Kerr [1995] Med LR 135 & 139
Damage sustained under hypotensive anesthesia.

National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water [1995] 1 All ER 25 (HL) [1995] A.C. 444
Liability of statutory body for escape of sewage caused by act of third party.

Diboll v City of Newcastle Upon Tyne [1993] P.I.Q.R. P2
Apportionment between Defendants – principles upon which appellate court intervenes.

Thompson v Smiths Ship repairers [1984] 1 ALL ER 881
Leading authority on Industrial Deafness.

Saunders v Leeds Western Health Authority [1984] 129 Sol Jo 225
Res ipsa application to anaesthetic mishap.

British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation
Joint leading Counsel for Claimants in the longest ever personal injury case leading to settlement for 80,000 + Claimants.