David Platt KC

Barrister specialising in industrial disease, personal injury insurance and health and safety. Both claimant and defendant work undertaken. EL Trigger Litigation (SC, insurance and asbestos); Majrowski v Guy & St Thomas Trust (HL, harassment); Sayers v Chelwood (CA, Limitation); Sowerby v Charlton (CA, admissions); Hartman v South Essex NHS Trust (CA, group stress claims); MacLennan v. Hartford Europe (stress); Nilsson v Redditch BC, CA on system of work; Hooper v Prescot No 1, asbestos; Re Kelly, asbestos; Blair v Michelin Tyre, asthma); CFAs accepted; Health & Safety and industrial accident (Avonmouth Bridge Inquests); policy construction and insurance (Ferngold Plant Hire v Wenham, CA, insurance; Cornhill Insurance v Stamp Felt Roofing, CA 2002, insurance). Also specialises in professional negligence, in particular surveyors (Smith v Eric S Bush; Harris v Wyre Forest District Council, HL), medical and legal (barristers and solicitors); CFAs accepted; town and country planning and all forms of public inquiry work; in particular non-domestic local authority work in minerals, waste disposal and local plans; has conducted public inquiries on cement production in the south-east, bioreactor proposals, clay and sand extraction and waste disposal operations; judicial review and local government; other reported authorities: Frank Jones (Builders) Limited v Roberts, CA (costs); Hedgedale v Hards, CA (landlord and tenant). Specialises also in Channel Island work.

Called 1987; Middle Temple; current affairs broadcaster (BBC); pupil master 1995.

Campbell College (scholarship); Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA; scholarship).