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Lucy McCormick

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Work Department

Group Actions; Product Liability; Tech Law; Property Damage; Property; Finance & Consumer

Position

Commercial barrister with a particular emphasis on product liability 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. She has co-authored or contributed to The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell 2021 & 2024), The Law and Autonomous Vehicles (Routledge 2019), and An Introduction to Technology Law (Lexis Nexis 2018).

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.