Chambers of Ingrid Simler QC
QUEEN ELIZABETH BUILDING, TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9BS, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7353 7534
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- Fax 020 7353 5150
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- 349 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
- Web:
- www.devereuxchambers.co.uk
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Peter Edwards
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7353 7534
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Position
Practices in the areas of personal injury, employment and industrial relations/trade unions. Can take full advantage of the increasing overlap between personal injury and employment law, and is able to provide a comprehensive service to employees and employers bringing or defending claims in the Tribunal and in the County. Personal injury: covers all aspects of personal injury and health and safety work, predominantly for claimants, including claims involving fatal accidents, catastrophic personal injury (including brain damage and spinal injuries suffered by adults and children), severe orthopaedic and soft tissue injuries, scarring and psychiatric damage. Expertise in occupational illness and disease litigation, including stress at work, dermatitis, asthma, asbestos exposure, vibration white finger and deafness. Employment law: expert on all aspects of employment law, including all types of discrimination, restrictive covenants, injunctions, wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, equal pay, TUPE, trade disputes, trade unions and commercial agents. Particular expertise in disability discrimination (using his knowledge in the personal injury field and his experience in cross-examining medical experts), whistleblowing age discrimination and Working Time Regulation cases. For extensive list of reported, appellate level cases, see website entry (www.devchambers.co.uk).
Career
Called Inner Temple 1992; frequent contributor to publications in the employment law and personal injury fields; also lectures in both areas; junior counsel to Sir Richard Scott’s inquiry 1993-96; member of the prosecuting panel of the Bar Council Standards Board; member of ELAAS Panel.
Member
PIBA; ELBA; APIL; ELA.
Education
Ball Green High School; Stoke on Trent Sixth From College; University of Kent (BA Hons); won WA Makaard Prize for European Community Law during Bar vocational course.
Leisure
Golf, squash, power boating.
Practice Areas
Employment; Personal injury - either side; Police law
