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Benjamin Browne KC KC
Work Department
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sport, Farming Related Litigation, Product Liability, Professional Negligence, Travel
Position
Personal injury – acting for both sides including alleged radiation injury, work related stress, defective components, riding accidents, criminal acts of employees and Fatal Accident Act claims. Clinical negligence – acting for both sides in cases involving catastrophic birth injury, negligent diagnosis and treatment, failure to recognise medical conditions, failure to safeguard suicidal patients. Travel – accidents abroad, Rome II, jurisdictional issues. Notable cases: Goldsmith v Patchcott and Roach [2012] PIQR P11 (COA) Animals Act. Collier v Norton [2012]: highest reported PI case, Wall v Mutuelle de Poitiers [2013]: Approach to evidence under Rome II. Mohamud v Morrisons Supreme Court [2015] vicarious liability, Williams v BHB Privy Council [2016] material contribution in clinical negligence. International cases include Carrara v Collins and Gibraltar Health Authority. Catastrophic brain injury sustained by claimant in road traffic accident in Gibraltar. Sullivan v The Care Agency [Gibraltar 2024], Balwah v Surgi-Med Clinic [2019] and Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeal [2024] medical malpractice case.
Recognised as the inaugural Legal 500 Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Silk of the Year in 2013, having previously been nominated for Chambers UK’s Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Silk of the Year in 2011.
Career
Called 1976; Inner Temple; Silk 1996; Recorder 1998.
Christ Church, Oxford. MA Jurisprudence.
Professional Memberships
PIBA; LawInSport, British Association for Sport and Law.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Benjamin Browne KC –2 Temple Gardens ‘His skills as a trial advocate are second to none. He is extremely bright and runs rings around any expert. Judges trust his submissions and he is a master tactician.’
Highlighted as ‘the place to go for cross-border disputes’,2 Temple Gardens‘ personal injury practitioners typically operate in highly sophisticated cases, especially those that requirement expertise in other jurisdictions, animal law, and psychiatric injuries. Senior members of the chambers pursue consequential disputes that reach the higher courts, such as Benjamin Browne KC and Marie-Louise Kinsler, who represented the defendants in the litigation surrounding the death of Sir Ian Brownlie, which settled in 2023 – the case reached the Supreme Court under the name FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie over issues of if the claim should have been brought in England or Egypt. Roger Harris is instructed in cases involving severe injuries, including those pertaining to animal law, such as Black v National Rifle Association, an ongoing dispute where the claimant contacted Lyme’s disease following exposure to a tick at one of the defendant’s shooting ranges.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Benjamin Browne KC –2 Temple Gardens ‘Ben has enormous experience. For spinal and brain injury cases, he has been there and seen it all before. Nothing fazes him.’
A ‘top-drawer set for clinical negligence’ , 2 Temple Gardens fields ‘real depth of experience in both claimant and defendant work’. Barristers in the set offer their services to NHS bodies, private insurance providers and medical defence organizations, in both domestic and cross-border cases. An example of this is Benjamin Browne KC’s role in a birth injury claim, concerning a US resident, valued at $78m. The team is additionally active in various surgical and amputation disputes, such as Beatty v Lewisham & Greenwich NHS , which saw Anna Hughes represent a defendant in a case regarding an alleged failure to diagnose and treat a patient’s foot, which ultimately led to its amputation, whom she successfully defended.