Chambers of John Ross QC
LONDON, WC2A 1LF, ENGLAND
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Alastair Hammerton
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Position
Barrister specialising in professional negligence, contract and commercial, public and regulatory, and personal injury work. Cases include: Lawrence v Pembrokeshire County Council [2007] CA; Lawrence v Pembrokeshire County Council [2006]; D v East Berkshire Community Health [2005] HL; Excelsior Commercial & Industrial Holdings v Salisbury Hamer [2002] CA; Peter McDonnell v Congregation of Christian Brothers [2003] HL; Professional Information Technology Consultants v Jones [2001] CA; Johnson v Bingley Dyson & Furey [1995]; Roberts v Plaisted [1989] CA.
Career
Called 1983; Inner Temple; Recorder 2004; part-time chairman of disciplinary panel of Counsel for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners; member of funding review committee of Legal Services Commission. Publications: author, in Vol 29 (3) of ‘Atkin’s Court Forms’, ‘Personal Injury’ and ‘Professional and Clinical Negligence’ (Butterworths, 2007, 3rd edition); author of ‘Mediation Advocacy’ (xpl 2006); co-general editor of ‘Pittaway and Hammerton: Professional Negligence Cases’ (Butterworths 1998); co-author ‘Advanced Civil Litigation in Practice’, (3rd ed Oxford University Press 2005).
Member
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; PIBA; PNBA; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Public Access Scheme.
Education
Winchester College; Queens’ College, Cambridge (1982 BA; 1985 MA); University of Virginia (1984 LLM).
Leisure
Cricket, gardening.
Practice Areas
Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Personal injury - either side; Professional negligence
