Mr David Sandiford > Exchange Chambers > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile
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201 DEANSGATE
MANCHESTER
M3 3NW
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Mr David Sandiford
Work Department
Personal injury, Inquests, Police law, Licensing
Position
In personal injury David has enormous experience in high value claims. He has a particular expertise in multiple orthopaedic injuries and brain injuries arising from motorcycle and cycling accidents. He has huge experience in pedestrian cases and has a particular interest in accident reconstruction. He has developed a significant and growing following in the niche field of Functional Neurological Disorder which compliments and sits alongside his wider pain practice. More widely he deals with amputations, brachial plexus injuries, serious upper and lower limb injuries and psychiatric injury in which he has a specialist experience in secondary victims.
In his police work he has over 25 years of experience across the whole range of civil actions involving the police, from false arrests & malicious prosecutions through to issues around the right to peaceful protest and the investigative duty.
In licensing he has a particular interest in taxi licensing and firearms. He holds an IOL Practitioner qualification and his licensing experience ranges from advising on and appearing in licensing appeals in the Crown Court up to JR in High Court
In inquests, he appeared as junior counsel for the new police investigation in the Hillsborough Inquests and has huge experience in inquests arising from prison deaths and deaths after police contact. He accepts instructions from all PIPs including families.
In his immigration work he has particular expertise in unlawful detention claims.
Career
Called 1995
Memberships
APIL
AVMA
Friends of Headway
Spinal Injuries Association
Education
Educated at Bolton School and Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall) PGCE Cambridge University (Homerton)
Called 1995 (Grays Inn), Karmel Scholar and Junior Award Winner
Leisure
A lover of sport, culture and the arts. Oxford cricket Blue 1991 (HS 83 v Yorkshire) and playing member of the MCC for over 25 (MCC ‘A’ Tour to Fiji and Hong Kong 1997). Keen skier. Supporter of girls’ and boys’ sport. Away from sports he has an appreciation of art, collecting the work of local 20th century artists and new emerging talent. He has a love of landscape and, as a proud Lancastrian, the industrial architecture and heritage of the North West of England.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1The members of Exchange Chambers advise the entire gamut of clients involved in inquests and public inquiries, including bereaved families and individuals, trade unions, clinical practitioners, governmental bodies and local authorities, police forces and officers, and prison officers. The set boasts particular expertise in inquests that engage Article 2 of the ECHR. Louis Browne KC is a notable presence in this area, and he is instructed on the forthcoming Thirlwall Inquiry into events at the Countess of Chester Hospital, for which former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder of numerous babies under her care and is serving a whole-life sentence. David Sandiford is another active member of the set in inquests and inquiries, having been instructed on significant, high-profile cases across his career. Another key junior, Sara Sutherland, is active in an inquest arising from the death of a newborn baby born at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2David Sandiford – Exchange Chambers ‘David is very thorough. He explains the law and relevant factors in a way that the client can understand and appreciate.’