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Philip Havers KC
Position
Philip Havers KC has a wide ranging practice with particular emphasis on medical law, public law and human rights law. He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Selected Cases:
- Dolan v Secretary of State for Health (Court of Appeal) (2020): Lead counsel in legal challenge to the lawfulness of the Government’s Covid-19 lockdown.
- R (W) v Caephilly County Borough Council (2020): Court of Appeal challenge to the lawfulness of the council’s decision to close/reconfigure local leisure facilities.
- Dulgheriu v London Borough of Ealing Council (2019): Local Authority’s power to prevent protests outside an abortion clinic. Awaiting Supreme Court’s permission to appeal.
Career
Call: 1974; Inner Temple; KC: 1995.
Called to the Hong Kong Bar; formerly counsel to the Crown, common law.
Languages
Spanish (working knowledge).
Memberships
Administrative Law Bar Association; Bar European Group; London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; Bar European Circuit; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association.
Education
Eton College; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MA).
Leisure
Tennis, music, wine, travel, gardening, trees.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Philip Havers KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘Philip has a firm grasp on the detail of the cases he presents, and presents compelling counter arguments.’
The ‘brilliant set of counsel’ at 1 Crown Office Row cover claims concerning health care in England and Wales and beyond. A strong track record in multi-party claims, such as the Ian Paterson scandal and mesh litigation, are characteristic of the set. Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC has notable experience in birth injury cases, including CDE v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, in which the claimant, born by caesarean section, suffered hypoxic ischaemia. Philip Havers KC also has experience in this area, as does John Whitting KC whose recent case of Yapp v Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust raises issues regarding whether compensation should persist after the death of the claimant parents and for the lifetime of the child. The set also has expertise in international cases, advising on litigation in Jersey, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions.