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Ognjen Miletic

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Position

Ognjen Miletic’s practice has an emphasis on commercial work and group litigation. He also focuses on product liability, property, insolvency and company law.

Ognjen was instructed as junior counsel for the Claimants in the Post Office Group Litigation, during which successful judgments were obtained in relation to important issues of admissibility of evidence ([2018] EWHC 2698 (QB)), contract law ([2019] EWHC 606 (QB)), applications for recusal ([2019] EWHC 871 (QB)), costs orders in Group Litigation ([2019] EWHC 1373 (QB)) and expert evidence in an IT trial ([2019] EWHC 3408 (QB)).

BBC ran a Panorama programme on the underlying subject matter of this group action.  The case was also listed by The Lawyer as one of the ‘Top 20 Cases of 2018’, with Civil Litigation Brief announcing it as the publication’s civil litigation case of the year in 2019.

Ognjen is also currently instructed on multiple group actions, most of which involve environmental and international mass tort claims.  One of these matters was heard by the Supreme Court in January of 2019 on the issue of jurisdiction (Lungowe v Vedanta), while another concluded successfully in the summer of 2019 with the Supreme Court refusing permission to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal (AAA v Unilever).

In terms of his commercial work, Ognjen was recently instructed as junior counsel for the Part 20 Defendant in a matter in the Commercial Court, with a claim value of over US$60million. The international nature of this case was demonstrated by the parties arguing in respect of the application of six different governing laws.

Career

Called to the Bar in 2010 and a member of Lincoln’s Inn (Lord Mansfield and Hardwicke scholar).  Prior to pupillage, Ognjen worked as a freelance advocate and conducted over 600 hearings in county courts across the UK.

Languages

Serbo-Croatian.

Memberships

Lincoln’s Inn Denning Society.

Education

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA First class Hons Jurisprudence).

Leisure

Regularly plays football, basketball and tennis. Contributing writer for an NFL website, the host of which is affiliated with Sky Sports News.