'Extremely responsive, commercially aware and decisive', Temple Legal Protection is a specialist provider of after-the-event (ATE) and before-the-event (BTE) insurance, with a particular focus on professional negligence, insolvency and defamation and privacy cases. Since their incorporation in 1999, the firm has sought to provide affordable ATE cover across a wide range of cases, working closely with litigators to pursue this aim. Laurence Pipkin is the managing director, while the 'extremely accomplished and commercially astute' Matthew Pascall is legal director and head of commercial. Jamela Collins is technical underwriting manager, and Matthew Best is director of ATE partnerships.
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Work highlights
Various claimants v Tata Steel – working with Hugh James in Cardiff, the firm insured a number of people living in the vicinity of the Port Talbot Steel Works who successfully settled a nuisance group action.
Duke of Sussex & Others v News Group Newspapers – working with Clintons and Hamlins the firm insured the Duke of Sussex and Lord Watson in their successful claim against NGN for unlawful information gathering, which settled on the basis, in part, of admissions and an apology from NGN.
Various claimants v IGI Insurance – working with Penningtons, the firm insured a group of claimants in their coverage dispute with PII insurers arising out of claims against solicitors for negligence following advice given to the claimants who had made off-plan purchases of property.
Practice head
Matthew Pascall