George Alliott > Temple Garden Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Temple Garden Chambers
1 Harcourt Buildings, Temple
LONDON
EC4Y 9DA
England
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Work Department

Personal injury, contract and commercial, employment, consumer credit, health and safety.

Position

Barrister specialising in tort (personal injury, professional negligence and nuisance); employment, including tribunals/EAT; contract and commercial law (including construction, insurance, consumer credit and ADR); and health and safety matters. Has experience in a wide range of other areas of law such as crime, including the prosecution/defence of HSE/local government cases; private international law; reported cases include: Adams v Cape Industries Plc [1990] 2 AC 433, [1990] 2 WLR 657, conflict of laws – jurisdiction to enforce foreign judgment; Nelhams v Sandells Maintenance Ltd, The Times 15 June 1995 (CA), personal injury – contribution between employer and contractor; TNT Express (UK) Ltd v The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, The Times 27 June 1995 (DC), environmental law – London lorry ban; Post Office v The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames [1995] RTR (DC), environmental law – London lorry ban; represented EWSR at the Southall Rail Accident Inquiry and SRA at the Ladbroke Grove rail inquiry; O’Loughlin v Cape Distribution Ltd [2001] EWCA Cir 178, 2001 All ER (D) 87; White v ESAB Group (UK) Ltd [2002] All ER (D); R v B&Q plc [2005] EWCA Crim 2297; Allison v London Underground Ltd [2008] EWLA Civ 71 [[2008] All ER (D) 185; Ellis v Environmental Agency [2008] EWCA 1117, [2008] All ER (D) 163.

Career

Called 1981; Inner Temple; LT Coldstream Guards 1981-84; fee-paid employment judge; deputy judge advocate; legal assessor; NMC/GOSC/ICA; CEDR-accredited mediator.

Memberships

Employment Law Bar Association; London Commercial and Common Law Bar Association; Technology and Construction Bar Association; CEDR.

Education

Warwick University (LLB).