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Caroline Lody
Position
Barrister.
Career
Called 2009. Before joining 7 Bedford Row Caroline worked as a research assistant with the commercial and common law team at the Law Commission. She has a busy civil practice and acts in a wide range of matters, including varied personal injury actions, clinical negligence, commercial and employment disputes. She has appeared in a large number of small claim and fast track trials, interlocutory applications and infant settlement hearings and has a substantial paper-work practice, providing written advice and settling pleadings. She has a particular interest in product liability and during pupillage assisted in ongoing multi-party action relating to ruptured breast implants (PIP). She is currently advising on several claims involving defective domestic appliances. Caroline also practices in family and crime.
Languages
Basic French and German.
Memberships
Middle Temple.
Education
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (BA Hons – Jurisprudence); University of Hong Kong (LLM).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Caroline Lody – 7BR ‘Caroline’s preparation, knowledge of the brief and advocacy are all first-rate.’
7BR is a ‘fantastic set’ noted for its ‘excellent spread of counsel at all levels of call’. Simeon Maskrey KC is an expert acting in maximum severity injury claims; Richard Baker KC was elevated to silk in the 2023 round. The set also has standout expertise in abuse litigation: this year including Adam Weitzman KC‘s leading Caroline Lody in the Court of Appeal for the defendant in AB v BCC and WCC, involving the threshold for parental neglect to be reached before a local authority’s positive duty under Article 3 of the ECHR is engaged, and Steven Ford KC‘s work in DJ v Barnsley MBC, an appeal regarding whether the local authority is vicariously liable for family members who foster children.