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Toby Sasse

0161 278 1800 clerks@18sjs.com

Work Department

Personal injury, professional negligence (including clinical negligence), contract, product liability, road transport law, employment, immigration.

Position

Notable cases: R v Secretary of State for Transport and Others ex p. Go Ahead Group [2010] EWHC 223 (admin); junior counsel in major judicial review proceedings concerning the operation and statutory interpretation of the concessionary bus fare regime; R v Noor Hussain (2010); prosecuting counsel in substantial MOT Fraud trial; James Brown v Traffic Commissioner for Scotland – Transport Tribunal November 2010; Bradley Fold Travel Limited v NW Traffic Commissioner – Transport Tribunal July 2009; Pass v Dyson (2009); RTA Multiple injury brain damage claim – accident reconstruction evidence – multiple experts; Karen Roberts v CICA (2010); major brain injury, appeal to First-Tier Tribunal concerning recoverablity in principle of contested heads of damage; Evelyn Enion v Sefton MBC (1999); Highways – Environment – Local Government – Negligence – Personal Injury CA (Civ Div) (Kennedy LJ, Laws LJ) 9/2/99 References: LTL 9/2/99 EXTEMPORE (Unreported elsewhere) Document No.: Case Law – AC9500141. Lectures presented: Sep 2011 – Regulation 5(1) of the Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regulations (1992) – ‘When is Strict Liability not Strict Liability?’ – an analysis of recent case law on the restrictive interpretation of Regulation 5 of the Workplace Regulations 1992, including consideration of its inter-relationship with Regulation 12 (which deals specifically with defects in/on floors and traffic routes) and a discussion of the probable and practical limits of Regulation 5 as a general purpose strict liability provision. Jan 2010 – Employers Liability Claims Update, discussing case law developments in the interpretation and application of the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, and the Provision and Use of work Equipment Regulations 1998.

Career

Called 1988; Middle Temple. Appointments: legal assessor to the Nursing and Midwifery Council 2009 – present.

Education

Exeter University (LLB); Inns of Court; Salford University (diploma in health and safety and environmental law 2010).

Leisure

Sailing, rugby, fell walking, gardening, cooking.