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Chambers of Sue Carr QC

4 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3RJ, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7822 2000
Fax:
Fax 020 7822 2001
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1041 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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Jeremy Stuart-smith QC

Tel:
Work +44 20 7822 2000
Email:
Four New Square (Chambers of Sue Carr QC)

Position

Specialises in professional negligence for construction professionals, accountants, insurance intermediaries, lawyers and others (TAG (2005-07); Sahib Foods v Paskin Kyriakides Sands [2004] PNLR 22; Llambias v Baker Tilley [2002]; Tradigrain do Brazil v ACE Insurance and Siaci [2003]; Parkinson v St James & Seacroft University Hospital NHS Trust [2002] QB 266 (CA); Rees v Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust [2003] 3 WLR 1091 (HL); product liability with an emphasis on (a) pharmaceutical products and (b) technical disputes typically arising from large fires and explosions (a: MMR litigation, LSD litigation, organophosphate litigation; Buncefield Explosion; Sun Valley v Pastspeed; Capital & Countries v PME); insurance and reinsurance with an emphasis on coverage disputes (EL trigger litigation (2010); Avon v Swire Fraser [2000] LRIR 535; Avon v GNER [2001] 2 Lloyds Rep 649; Ace Insurance SA NV v Seechurn [2002] Lloyds Rep 390; Blackburn Rovers v Avon [2005] Lloyds Rep IR 447. Other cases include: Barker v Corus [2006] HL.

Career

Called 1978; Gray’s Inn; Recorder; QC 1997. Deputy High Court Judge 2009; Lay Observer, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine 2006. MIB arbitrator 2002.

Member

London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; COMBAR; PNBA; BIICL Product Liability Forum.

Education

Radley; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1977 MA Law).

Leisure

Playing French horn, history, skiing, tennis.

Practice Areas

Commercial; Product liability; Professional negligence

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