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Mr Ben Collins KC
Work Department
Employment, clinical negligence, personal injury and professional regulatory & discipline.
Position
High-profile practice in an unusually wide range of fields: major cases in employment, clinical negligence, regulatory, PI, public law and human rights. Particular expertise in the health sector, with huge experience of representing healthcare professionals and employers in employment, regulatory, disciplinary and civil proceedings. Appears regularly in High Court and tribunals in public sector and large commercial employment disputes. Major practice in very high value clinical negligence, personal injury, inquests and associated public law and human rights challenges. Leading expert in criminal injuries compensation. Extensive experience in military claims. Notable cases (over 25 reported in last 5 years) include: R (DSD) v Parole Board [2018] HRLR 12 (challenge to John Worboys release); Gilham v MOJ [2018] ICR 827 (employment status of judges); Y v FTT [2017] 4 WLR 60 (status of unborn child); Wasteney v ELFT [2016] ICR 643 (religious discrimination); Child Soldiers v MOD [2016] 1 WLR 1062 (age discrimination in Army); CP v FTT [2015] QB 459 (criminalisation of drinking in pregnancy); a series of claims arising from injuries of utmost severity.
Career
Called (MT) 1996, QC 2016. Recorder. Special Advocate. Attorney-General’s A Panel (before taking silk). IPC Anti-doping adjudicator. Called to Bar of Northern Ireland.
Publications:
Contributing Editor to ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’ (Informa). Consultant Editor to ‘Criminal Injuries Compensation’ (OUP)
Memberships
ELA, PNBA, PIBA, ARDL, ELBA, Justice, Liberty.
Education
Educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry and Queens’ College Cambridge.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘Ben is calm under pressure, thorough, thoughtful and puts claimants and their families at ease. His advocacy is again calm, measured and highly effective.’
Old Square Chambers‘ clinical negligence team of ‘excellent barristers‘ work with both claimants and defendants in claims across a range of healthcare issues. Ben Collins KC has notable experience in dental negligence litigation, and international law issues: recently acting in a multi-defendant claim arising out of negligent weight loss surgery performed in Italy after consultation in England. Junior Bella Webb has extensive experience in complex delay in cancer diagnosis cases, Sophie Beesley has ‘developed an outstanding practice in claimant clinical negligence work’.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘Ben is extremely thorough and does not overlook a single detail, just what you need in highly complex multi-defendant extremely high-value personal injury cases.’
Old Square Chambers‘ personal injury counsel are ‘second-to-none‘, with ‘a breadth of experience‘ acting for both claimants and defendants on issues from catastrophic injury to industrial disease. Ben Collins KC is acting for the claimant in Suresh v GMC, a case brought by the widow of a doctor who took his own life after being the subject of unfounded allegations, this claim considers the liability of GMC to its doctors. Charles Woodhouse KC has notable experience in claims regarding spinal cord injuries; Katherine Howells has standout expertise in international claims, and those involving serious brain injuries. The set is known for, but by no stretch of the imagination defined by, its historical connections to trade unions and the Western circuit; Daniel Neill joined the set in 2022 from Guildhall Chambers.
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘A silk with a very strategic mind.’
The ‘brilliant set‘ Old Square Chambers is very well known for its strength in handling instructions focusing on the healthcare sector, however members are equally adept at assisting professionals from the financial, education and legal sectors. Ben Collins KC is acting in Suresh v GMC, an ongoing case concerning a claim brought by the widow of a doctor who had taken his own life while under a GMC investigation. Nicola Newbegin is ‘a fluent advocate‘ with expertise in handling regulatory proceedings for healthcare professionals and solicitors. In March 2023 the senior end of the team was bolstered by the elevation of Eleena Misra KC and Nadia Motraghi KC to silk.
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘Ben is an experienced silk, with good technical knowledge and an engaging style of advocacy. He has the confidence of the court.’
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘A silk who is very good at putting the client at ease with his calm demeanour.’