William Poole > Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile

William Poole

0161 214 1500 clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Fraud - Civil, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Costs, ADR and Mediation

Position

William enjoys a busy court, advisory and paper practice specialising in Commercial Litigation, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Costs and Mediation.

• William is in trial virtually every week acting for insurers in defence of large and invariably exaggerated, often fraudulent credit hire claims. He acts exclusively for insurers in the field.He is well-versed on handling the often substantial amounts of financial documentation that large hire claims can involve. He also has a deep understanding of the procedural requirements involved when giving disclosure or drafting pleadings which in such cases are so often inadequate and determinative.Since the introduction of s.57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act, 2015, William has secured dozens of findings of fundamental dishonesty for his insurer clients. Since the introduction of QOCS, William now advises insurers about how to recover the costs of failed hire claims from the hire companies, especially after a finding of dishonesty, and is enjoying recent consistent success in the field.

  William acts for both Claimants and Defendants in Clinical Negligence,  Personal Injury and Costs disputes. In PI William specialises in brain and spinal injuries and deals with cases of the utmost severity. William qualified as a CEDR trained mediator in 2016.

Career

William has been at St John’s Buildings since undertaking pupillage in 2004.

Education

William read Classics with Italian at Leeds University, graduating in 1997.