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Mr Ben Collins KC 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 > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘A silk who provides high quality, commercially sound advice.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘Ben brings with him a wealth of experience and analytical approach to complex brain injury claims.’
Old Square Chambers‘ personal injury offering is noted as ‘full of experts in all types of personal injury law’, and is recommended for its ‘great depth of expertise in the field of occupational disease’. The team demonstrates proficiency in maximum severity workplace and traffic accidents, but is additionally capable in claims involving a psychiatric component, such as PTSD and self-harm. In an example crossing over with his employment expertise, Ben Collins KC appeared in Suresh v GMC and North Tees NHS Trust concerning a medic who was driven to self-harm following the proliferation of unfounded allegations. As part of a broad practice, Bruno Gil acts on behalf of military claimants.
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Ben Collins KC – Old Square Chambers ‘Ben is the consummate professional, commands control and also the respect of the other side. He is a thoughtful and articulate advocate, not forgetting the lay client and their needs and understanding throughout the legal process. He is a canny negotiator and instills confidence at all times.’
Old Square Chambers‘ clinical negligence practice fields ‘an expanding and impressive body of expertise’, overseeing a range of professional medical issues, including birth injuries, surgical errors, misdiagnosis and mental health-related negligence. Ben Collins KC is a port of call for highly sophisticated and valuable negligence disputes that sees medical causation, expert evidence, factual consistency and quantum in contention. Sophie Beesley is highly active in representing clients in litigation pertaining to maternal injuries, such as stillbirths and cerebral palsy, as well as matters pertaining to mental health negligence, such as self-injuries and PTSD.