Chambers of Benjamin Browne QC
TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9AY, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7822 1200
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- Fax 020 7822 1300
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- 134 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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- www.2tg.co.uk
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Anastasia Karseras
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Work Department
Personal injury; clinical negligence; property damage; professional negligence; insurance; media and entertainment; commercial.
Position
Personal injury: experience of a broad range of personal injury work, including road traffic accidents (including MIB), employers’ liability claims (including stress at work claims), occupiers’ liability, highways authority claims, and fatal accident claims. Recent notable cases: Mr Ozkutayli v Mr Provence and also Allianz Cornhill [2007] regarding the notice provisions in the Road Traffic Act and Uninsured Drivers Agreement 1999 where a declaration had been obtained by insurers after proceedings were issued; Harold William Bartlett v Byrne Brothers (Formwork) Limited and also Cleveland Bridge UK Limited [2007] application to strike out where the claimant had gone missing and could not be declared dead until 2011. Clinical negligence: including obstetrics and gynaecology (and claims for psychiatric harm), oncology, orthopaedics, brain damage (infants and adults). Notable cases include: Rana Al Hamwi v Fiona Johnston and also North West London Hospitals NHS Trust [2005] Lloyd’s Rep Med 309; Alexis Lawrence Macey v Warwickshire Health Authority [2004] EWHC 1198 (QB), LTL [2004]; GMC v Jamal [2003] regarding clinical trials. Fraudulent or exaggerated claims: including personal injury, property damage ?and insurance claims. Rossi v Lalili, Current Law November Digest ?2007 (exaggerated personal injury claim, costs consequences). ?Property damage: including damage to homes to property (with particular emphasis on flooding claims), theft of personal and ?company property.
Career
Called 2000; Gray’s Inn.
Languages
Fluent modern Greek.
Member
COMBAR; LCLCBA; PIBA.
Education
Charlotte Ashby Prize (UCL 1999); University College London (1999 LLB); Cynthia Terry Award (1999 Gray’s Inn scholarship); Inns of Court School of Law (2000 BVC).
Practice Areas
Clinical negligence - either side; Common law (general); Personal injury - either side
