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James Hughes

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Work Department

Inquests and Public Inquiries, Personal Injury, Employers’ Liability, Public Liability, Industrial Disease, Personal Injury Fraud, Travel Abroad, Personal Injury Costs, Clinical Negligence, Data Protection

Career

Call : 2011

James is a specialist personal injury and clinical negligence practitioner. He has extensive experience across the full spectrum of such work, including public and employer’s liability, road traffic accidents, industrial disease and travel claims. He is a highly experienced interim hearing and trial advocate. He acts for claimants and defendants in roughly equal measure. He is regularly instructed on behalf of defendants or their insurers where allegations of dishonesty or the disapplication of QOCS are argued.

In addition to his core personal injury and clinical negligence caseload, James is also a specialist in data protection, privacy and confidentiality work, whether arising out of the GDPR/data protection legislation, or at common law.

Languages

James has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Memberships

• Personal Injuries Bar Association
• Western Circuit

Education

• LLB (Hons) (Nottingham University) –  Law with European Law (2010)
• BPTC, College of Law (2011)
• LLM, Bristol University (2012)
• Erasmus Scholarship
• Nottingham University Mooting Competition and Law Graduates’ Association Moot Prize Winner
• Westlaw UK Mooting Competition Winner (judged by Jackson LJ)
• Herbert Smith Mooting Competition Winner (Bristol University, judged by Lord Kerr, Supreme Court Justice)