Chambers of Charles Gibson QC
2 HARCOURT BUILDINGS, TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9DB, ENGLAND
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Malcolm Sheehan
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Work Department
Product liability, personal injury, commercial property, residential property, professional negligence, consumer credit and general consumer law, insurance, health and safety.
Position
Barrister practising in product liability (including pharmaceutical and medical device litigation) and personal injury; landlord and tenant including covenant enforceability and leasehold enfranchisement; commercial property including 1954 Act work, dilapidation claims, mortgages and easements; health and safety; human rights; insurance; professional negligence cases involving solicitors, architects, brokers, surveyors and valuers; general contract and tort; has appeared before a variety of tribunals, including the House of Lords and Court of Appeal, and has advocacy experience as a junior in a range of High Court litigation. Reported cases include: Young v Catholic Care and others [2008] UKHL 6; Sun Life Assurance Plc v Thales Tracs Ltd [2001] 1 WLR 1562; [2001] 34 EG 100; Dunlop v Medd Racing and Racing Lines (GB) Ltd [2002] BLD 180102111. In 2005 was appointed junior counsel to the Crown (‘B’ panel) by the Attorney General and in 2008 was appointed a deputy adjudicator to HM Land Registry.
Career
Spent two years in Japan on a Japanese Foreign Office programme; called 1993; judicial assistant to Lord Woolf MR; Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Mansfield Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Inns of Court Scholarship; Hardwicke Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; publications: contributor to the ‘Civil Practitioner’s Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998’ and ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England and Wales’ vol 37; contributor to real property section in Butterworth’s ‘Civil Court Precedents’; has conducted a series of seminars on procedural issues for professional clients.
Languages
Working knowledge of Japanese.
Member
Professional Negligence Bar Association; British Japanese Law Association; Lincoln’s Inn Denning Society; Personal Injury Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association.
Education
Oriel College, Oxford (MA First Class Hons).
Practice Areas
Litigation - commercial; Product liability; Property - litigation
