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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

MERCHANTS HOUSE NORTH, WAPPING ROAD, BRISTOL, BS1 4RW, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0117 930 0200
Fax:
Fax 0117 934 9300
DX:
78116 BRISTOL
Web:
www.law-now.com
Email:

Simon Chandler

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Work +44 117 930 7816
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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

Work Department

Insurance and reinsurance group.

Position

Partner specialising in insurance litigation, particularly professional indemnity, financial institutions, directors and officers, and fraud-related work. Cases include: Stevens v Gullis [1999] (CA) and Hammersmith Hospitals v Troup Bywaters & Anders [2000] (CA).

Career

Trained Ambrose Appelbe & Pyke; qualified 1995; partner CMS Cameron McKenna 2007; former infantry officer, British Army (1984-1990).

Languages

French, German.

Education

St Joseph’s College, Stoke on Trent; Oxford University (1984 MA Hons History); Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (1985).

Leisure

Distance running, all outdoor pursuits, family.

Practice Areas

Fraud; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Professional negligence

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Legal Developments by:
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

  • Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

    Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.
    - CMS Group

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