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Roger Harris
Work Department
Clinical Negligence, Equestrian & Farming-Related Litigation, Insurance, Personal Injury
Position
Roger Harris is an experienced advocate who specialises in clinical negligence and catastrophic personal injury claims. He has appeared in a number of the leading cases relating to vicarious liability for intentional torts, including the Supreme Court case of Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC. He has a particular specialism in cases involving the Animals Act and farming matters generally and appeared recently in the important case of Dennis v Voute Sales Ltd. He is regularly instructed on behalf of leading racehorse trainers. His clinical negligence practice includes a particular focus on secondary victim claims, issues relating to consent and oncology claims. He has previously been shortlisted for the Chambers and Partners ‘Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year’. He is Head of the 2 Temple Gardens Common Law Group.
Career
BA History and Politics, Exeter University. Called to the Bar in 1996. Recorder on the Western Circuit since 2018.
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Western circuit.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Roger Harris –2 Temple Gardens ‘Roger is a pragmatic and no-nonsense litigator, getting straight to the crux of matters with ease.’
2 Temple Gardens ‘have an impressive collection of juniors and silks‘, offering both ‘both experience and some very talented up and coming barristers‘. The set has particular experience in cross-border, multi-jurisdictional work: this year, Roger Harris, Charles Dougherty KC, Benjamin Phelps, Niazi Fetto KC and Andrew Bershadski were all involved in the case of Roberts v Various Defendants in the Supreme Court, in which the claimant, a child of a British soldier serving in Germany whose mother received care by British midwives working with German doctors, was born in a German hospital in 2000 with cerebral palsy as a result of allegedly negligent treatment; the case brings up issues relating to jurisdiction and vicarious liability. Niazi Fetto KC took silk in March 2023, and Harry Trusted joined the set from Outer Temple Chambers in January 2023.
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Roger Harris –2 Temple Gardens ‘Good and clear identification of issues and excellent analysis of these which require high level understanding of the medical evidence.’