Author(s)
Lee
Collishaw
Jayne has been ranked in the Chambers UK Bar 2018 Guide for Personal Injury (Band 2) and highlighted in the Industrial Disease Spotlight Table.
She is highly esteemed for her experience in industrial disease claims. She has a related specialism in clinical negligence claims and also frequently handles matters involving fraud.
Strengths:
“Very knowledgeable in relation to all diseases and impressive tactically and in court.”
“Thorough, attentive and sharp.”
“She is calmness personified and has an excellent ability to distinguish the wood from the trees.”
Recent work:
Acted for the defendant in a group action brought by 57 fire and rescue workers for the effects of training in alleged contaminated water.
The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on 14 March 2024, dismissing two conjoined appeals in cases of mesothelioma arising from asbestos exposure in the 1950s, Executors of the Estate of Thomas Albert White v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (”White”) and Executrix of the Estate of Derek Barry Cuthbert v…
The High Court has handed down judgment in an important case dealing with the data protection obligations of NHS Trusts in respect of the collection and retention of patient medical records. The Claimant (anonymised as ‘YSL’ to protect privacy) brought a wide-ranging claim against the Defendant Foundation NHS Trust, seeking damages and erasure orders in…
Tom Carter appears in the Supreme Court in the case of Davies v Bridgend on the question of causation following his win in the Court of Appeal that damages for diminution in value of a property are recoverable in the absence of physical damage and are not pure economic loss: see Davies v Bridgend [2023] EWCA Civ…
