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Michael Pooles KC
Position
Michael Pooles KC’s principal area of practice is that of professional indemnity claims and related coverage issues. He frequently acts for or against lawyers, accountants and surveyors but also acts for or against all manner of professionals including areas such as veterinary science, land management and fish farming. He is frequently instructed in costs matters. His practice also includes general insurance matters of all types and substantial personal injury claims. Michael is consistently ranked as a leading silk in the areas of professional negligence and costs by the leading directories and was Chambers & Partners’ 2008 and 2016 Silk of the Year for Professional Negligence. Michael was formerly one of editors of the solicitors’ chapter of Professional Negligence and Liability.
Career
Called 1978, Inner Temple; KC 1999; recorder 2000-12; bencher of the Inner Temple. Publications of note: contributing editor ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’ 2000-13.
Memberships
Bar Standards Board 2006-09; PNBA; COMBAR.
Education
The Perse, Cambridge; Queen Mary College, London (LLB); Scarman scholar; Jardine scholar Treasurer’s prize winner (Inner Temple).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Michael Pooles KC –Hailsham Chambers ‘One of the leading professional negligence barristers. Great advocacy and very user-friendly.’
Hailsham Chambers is a leading professional negligence set with, ‘a huge number of specialists, their KCs are absolute market leaders’. William Flenley KC recently acted in Salter v PCL – a claim against a planning KC and planning consultant concerning whether they acted negligently in their advice on technical issues of planning law. Additionally, Michael Pooles KC recently completed a five-week trial whereby the claimants brought a £40m claim against a firm of solicitors – the claimants alleged that as a result of the solicitors’ conduct they had been deprived of a high-value business opportunity in the motor trade.