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James Ageros KC
Position
Health and safety enforcement and environmental law. Cases include: R v Friskies Petcare Ltd; R v Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Ltd; R v Connelly and Kennet.
Career
Called 1990, Inner temple. Publications of note: co-author of Matthews and Ageros, ‘Health and Safety Enforcement, Practice and Procedure’, OUP.
Languages
Italian.
Education
Tiffin Boys School, Kingston; Southampton University (2.1 ICGL).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Health and safety
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2James Ageros KC –Crown Office Chambers ‘Just seems to get stronger and stronger. Possibly the calmest lawyer on the circuit, perfect for difficult clients and difficult tribunals. Brings a logical approach and defuses situations with charm.‘
Sought out by high-profile individual directors and managers, through to multi-billion pound corporations, the set at Crown Office Chambers continues to be a pre-eminent set for a whole array of high profile health and safety matters, including corporate and individual manslaughter, prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and appeals against improvement and prohibitions notices. John Cooper KC, James Ageros KC, and Lucy Wright, who joined the set from Lincoln House Chambers in November 2022, were all instructed in a trial relating to a Section 3 and Section 37 Health and Safety at Work Act case concerning five fatalities at a recycling centre in Birmingham. Simon Antrobus KC recently successfully defended a managing director in relation to four charges of manslaughter, and Mark Balysz KC is defending a paramedic at trial charged with gross negligence manslaughter.