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David Platt KC
Position
Barrister specialising in industrial disease, personal injury insurance and health and safety. Both claimant and defendant work undertaken. EL Trigger Litigation (SC, insurance and asbestos); Majrowski v Guy & St Thomas Trust (HL, harassment); Sayers v Chelwood (CA, Limitation); Sowerby v Charlton (CA, admissions); Hartman v South Essex NHS Trust (CA, group stress claims); MacLennan v. Hartford Europe (stress); Nilsson v Redditch BC, CA on system of work; Hooper v Prescot No 1, asbestos; Re Kelly, asbestos; Blair v Michelin Tyre, asthma); CFAs accepted; Health & Safety and industrial accident (Avonmouth Bridge Inquests); policy construction and insurance (Ferngold Plant Hire v Wenham, CA, insurance; Cornhill Insurance v Stamp Felt Roofing, CA 2002, insurance). Also specialises in professional negligence, in particular surveyors (Smith v Eric S Bush; Harris v Wyre Forest District Council, HL), medical and legal (barristers and solicitors); CFAs accepted; town and country planning and all forms of public inquiry work; in particular non-domestic local authority work in minerals, waste disposal and local plans; has conducted public inquiries on cement production in the south-east, bioreactor proposals, clay and sand extraction and waste disposal operations; judicial review and local government; other reported authorities: Frank Jones (Builders) Limited v Roberts, CA (costs); Hedgedale v Hards, CA (landlord and tenant). Specialises also in Channel Island work.
Career
Called 1987; Middle Temple; current affairs broadcaster (BBC); pupil master 1995.
Memberships
COMBAR; PNBA; PIBA.
Education
Campbell College (scholarship); Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA; scholarship).
Leisure
Politics, conservation, opera, film, skiing; JRR Tolkien.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1David Platt KC –Crown Office Chambers ‘David is a Rolls Royce of a silk. Excellent robust and no-nonsense advice.’
The ‘impressive’ barristers at Crown Office Chambers provide ‘a wide range of top quality expertise’, particularly strong in catastrophic injury work. David Platt KC is acting for the Ministry of Defence in the ongoing military deafness group claim, in which over four thousand members of the armed forces are seeking compensation for noise-induced hearing loss whilst in training or active service. Catherine Foster acts for the claimant in Juj v John Lewis Partnership plc, which considers the standards to be expected of ‘occupiers’ where visitors are disabled or otherwise vulnerable; in this case the claimant, an elderly person, tripped on a kerb bordering a disabled parking bay at the defendant’s car park. In September 2023 Matthew Boyle was appointed to the circuit bench.