Author(s)
Lee
Collishaw
Kam has been ranked in the Chambers UK Bar 2018 for Personal Injury (Band 2).
He specialises in disease work frequently advising on hand-arm vibration syndrome, noise-induced hearing loss and mesothelioma. He focuses on representing defendant and insurer clients.
Strengths:
“Knowledgeable, tenacious and very reliable.”
“He drafts excellent statements and he is personable and approachable.”
Recent work:
Represented the Secretary of State for the Department for Transport and successfully appealed a decision on Section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 in a claim for noise-induced hearing loss.
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…
