Kara Loraine > Chambers of Oliver Segal KC > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
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Old Square Chambers
9 QUEEN SQUARE
BRISTOL
BS1 4JE
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Kara Loraine
Position
and collective employment tribunal work, including equal pay, unfair and constructive dismissals, whistle-blowing, redundancy, TUPE and all areas of discrimination law. Kara undertakes work for employers, individuals and trade unions and regularly appears in Employment Tribunals representing both claimants and respondents. She is frequently instructed in complex and multi-day discrimination cases including cases involving multiple types of discrimination. Kara recently acted as an independent investigator in an internal grievance procedure on behalf of a charitable organisation and regularly provides advice both in conference and in writing on all aspects of employment law. She also undertakes work in professional disciplinary proceedings and has recently appeared before the NMC. Kara acts for both claimants and defendants in personal injury cases including drafting pleadings and advice. She represents clients at trial in a variety of fast track and small claims matters including road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, occupiers liability, credit hire and highways cases as well as at applications and disposal hearings in fast track and multi-track cases.
Career
Called 2006; Middle Temple. Prior to joining chambers Kara spent a year in-house with a large national firm of solicitors. She undertook mainly multi-claimant local government equal pay cases and also gained experience of discrimination and whistle-blowing claims. She also lectured in tort and civil litigation at Northumbria University.
Publications:
‘Local Government Equal Pay: An Overview of Recent Case Law’, Equal Opportunities Review, March 2010 with Jane McNeill QC.
Memberships
Industrial Law Society; Employment Lawyers Association; Personal Injury Bar Association.
Education
Durham University (2005 LLB Law, 2(1)); Northumbria University (2007 BVC, VC; LLM, VC).
Leisure
Good music and comedy, the occasional festival.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Old Square Chambers is a ‘first port of call’ for clinical negligence work on the Western Circuit. Sophie Beesley focuses on claimant-side matters, often for highly vulnerable clients. She has considerable experience acting in cases involving bowel and gynaecological injuries as well as the death of children at or shortly after birth. Kara Loraine possesses broad expertise, including in claims relating to obstetric care and delivery, failure of and delay in diagnosis, negligent surgical procedures, suicide, and mismanagement of chronic disease.
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Old Square Chambers is known as ‘one of the best personal injury sets at the Bar’. Charles Woodhouse KC has particular experience acting in defendant claims involving chronic pain, functional illness, and mild traumatic brain injury as well as for members of the armed services. Kara Loraine was recently instructed by the claimant in the widely publicised High Court case of Mathieu v Aviva, in which a successful artist suffering from a brain injury following a collision with a moped claimed for significant compensation for loss of past and future earnings – the case considered whether provisional damages can and should be awarded for the risk of developing dementia due to severe traumatic brain injury.
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Kara Loraine – Old Square Chambers ‘Kara is very thorough and approachable. She has great empathy and explains everything in a no-jargon way to ensure clients have a fully understanding of the issues and of the next steps.’