Jamie Carpenter KC > Hailsham Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
Hailsham Chambers Offices
CHAMBERS OF JULIAN PICTON QC
4 PAPER BUILDINGS, TEMPLE
EC4Y 7EX
England
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Jamie Carpenter KC
Position
Jamie specialises in costs and professional and clinical negligence. Leading firms of solicitors in all three areas regularly instruct him, and his costs practice has an international dimension, having advised firms in Dubai, Singapore and the Channel Islands. Jamie is equally at home dealing with narrow points of construction or marshalling complex facts in document-heavy claims. He is a very experienced advocate, having spent much of his earlier years in practice in the criminal courts.
Jamie is in demand as an appellate advocate. In the last three years, he has appeared twice in the Supreme Court and nine times in the Court of Appeal. With his scientific background, Jamie is comfortable dealing with technical and medical issues and complex calculations, and he is a confident and effective cross-examiner of expert witnesses. Jamie is recommended in the professional directories for all of his practice areas. He has been described as “technically brilliant”, “fantastic for complex cases”, “an extremely good advocate, who tackles complex issues fearlessly and effectively” and “incredibly user-friendly … and appreciates clients’ needs”.
Career
Called 2000; Inner Temple.
Languages
Fluent German, basic French.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; AvMA.
Education
The Perse School, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge (1996 Diploma in German, distinction; 1998 BA linguistics first class); The College of Law (1999 CPE, distinction); Inns of Court School of Law (2000 BVC, very competent).
Leisure
Cycling, rock climbing, music, cinema, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Costs
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jamie Carpenter KC – Hailsham Chambers ‘Jamie is by far the best barrister in this area. He is absolutely outstanding in every respect.’
Hailsham Chambers are a ‘go-to set for costs related matters’, where in addition to the highly regarded advocacy on major precedent-setting cases, members are valued for their advisory and drafting skills, frequently handling complex retainers and funding arrangements on which the recovery of millions of pounds of fees may depend. The ‘wonderful’ Jamie Carpenter KC successfully defeated a High Court appeal in Diag Human & Stava v Volterra Fietta, with the ruling that it was not possible to sever the hourly rate part of a retainer with an unenforceable success fee. Alexander Hutton KC acted for the appellant in Harrison v University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, with the Court of Appeal handing down a ruling in December 2022 that compensation as part of a settlement, like as part of an award of damages, cannot be set off against litigation costs in cases where qualified one-way costs shifting applies. At junior level, Joshua Munro faced senior opposition in McGuinness v Mawer, a long-running case that saw the High Court find that disclosure of a CFA is no longer the norm where there is no inter partes success fee.
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jamie Carpenter KC –Hailsham Chambers ‘Outstanding technical legal analysis with practical advice, superb advocacy.’