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Henderson Chambers
2 HARCOURT BUILDINGS, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 9DB
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Lucy McCormick
Work Department
Product Liability; Property Damage; Property; Commercial; Personal Injury, Health & Safety and Inquests
Position
Commercial barrister with a particular emphasis on product liability, property damage, property and related areas. Much of her practice concerns mass torts and group actions. Lucy is particularly well known for her expertise in matters with a technology element.
Career
Called to the Bar by Middle Temple (2008); Judicial Assistant to Mummery LJ, Royal Courts of Justice (2008); Intern to the Financial Markets Law Committee, Bank of England (2009); Secondment to HSBC to assist with the FCA’s Interest Rate Hedging Product Review (2014); Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (2016-2022); Middle Temple Advocacy Trainer (2017-present);
Memberships
British Insurance Law Association (BILA); Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association (HSLA); Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA); Property Bar Association (PBA); Society for Computers and Law (SCL).
Education
Modern History, Somerville College Oxford (First class) (2003-6); Graduate Diploma in Law, Oxford Brookes (2006-7); Bar Vocational Course, ICSL (2007-8). Awards and scholarships include: Coombs Exhibition, Somerville College, Oxford (2003), Mary Somerville Prize, Somerville College, Oxford (2006); Eugene Lee Hamilton Prize, Oxford (2006); Queen Mother’s Scholarship (CPE), Middle Temple (2006); Queen Mother’s Scholarship (BVC), Middle Temple (2007).
Leisure
Wine tasting.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Agriculture
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Environment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Lucy McCormick – Henderson Chambers ‘Lucy is an extremely diligent and intellectually rigorous junior.’
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Lucy McCormick – Henderson Chambers ‘Lucy is very diligent with both a strong eye for detail and good strategic sense. She thinks outside the box, identifying potential issues well in advance.’
Reputed as ‘go-to set for group litigation’, members of Henderson Chambers‘ areas of expertise include product liability, environmental, consumer and financial group actions, as well as handling claims arising from injuries, death or human rights abuse. A number of the set’s barristers, including Charles Gibson KC, Prashant Popat KC, Geraint Webb KC, Kathleen Donnelly KC and Lucy McCormick , continue to represent members of the Volkswagen Group in the ongoing group actions regarding the emissions of their diesel cars. Leading Adam Heppinstall KC, Oliver Campbell KC is acting as opposing counsel for claimants in these high-profile cases. At the same time, Campbell KC handles a group action by over 30,000 claimants against Easyjet in relation to a mass data breach involving financial and other data. Malcolm Sheehan KC represents Mercedes-Benz in other “dieselgate” litigation. Toby Riley-Smith KC is acting for Bayer plc in over a hundred claims being brought under the Consumer Protection Act 1987, alleging that the permanent contraceptive device Essure has caused them a range of different personal injuries.
London Bar > Product liability
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Lucy McCormick – Henderson Chambers ‘Lucy is very diligent with both a strong eye for detail and good strategic sense. She thinks outside the box, identifying potential issues well in advance.’