3 Hare Court is ‘an excellent set in relation to travel claims and all injury claims relating to accidents abroad’. Recent instructions for the personal injury team include Katherine Deal KC representing the claimant, a reality television personality, who was injured in a fall during filming a reality show in Argentina and subsequently brought a claim against a Californian television production company. The claim involves complex issues of validity under Californian law, as the client had signed a waiver in advance of filming, and Argentinian legal issues involving safety on set. In a separate matter, Andrew Young acted for a claimant who had suffered a serious head injury while on a package holiday in Austria, after she slipped on ice on a mountain path and slid down a glacier.
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Katherine Deal KC is the current head of our Personal Injury and Travel and Aviation practice groups.
She was head of pupillage in Chambers between 2012 and 2020, and continues to take an active part in training of pupils, including running pupils’ in-house advocacy training.
She has acted in a number of leading cases in this area including:
Homawoo v GMF Assurances (C-412/10) (in which the CJEU definitively confirmed the date of entry into effect of Rome II);
Keefe v Mapfre & Hoteles Pinero Canarias [2013] EWHC 4279 (QB) (on jurisdiction over a foreign tortfeasor, currently on appeal to Court of Appeal);
Middleton v Allianz & Middleton [2012] EWHC 2287 (QB) (on applicable law of claim and additional claim for overseas accident)
Jones v AGF [2010] ILPr 4 and Thwaites v Aviva [2010] Lloyd’s Rep IR 667 (jurisdiction and applicable law in direct claims against foreign insurers);
Healy v Cosmosair [2005] EWHC 1657 (QB) (catastrophic accident in course of package holiday in Portugal);
Bygrave v Thomas Cook [2003] EWCA Civ 1631;
Jones v Sunworld [2003] EWHC 591 QC (leading case on scope of package);
Edmunds v Simmonds [2001] 1 WLR 1003 (applicable law under PIL(MP)A 1995).
Career
Called Middle Temple 1997. Contributes division on overseas travel claims in Butterworths ‘Personal Injury Litigation Service’, updated March 2014; appointed by Council of the Inns of Court as a volunteer barrister for disciplinary hearings, 2009-13. Publishes in various journals including ’New Law Journal’. Contributed to APIL’s ‘Guide to Accidents Abroad 2013’ and ’Oliver and Dingemans: Employers Liability Cases’ (Butterworths, 2003). Conciliator to the Passenger Shipping Association/CLIA UK 2010-2014.
Languages
Fluent French, German.
Memberships
- Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA)
- London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA)
- Pan-European Organisatin of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL)
Education
Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks; St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1995 BA Hons French and German, first class); City University (1996 Diploma in Law).
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