Band 2
Provided by Colm Nugent
Colm is a specialist barrister in the fields of personal injury and related insurance issues. He is also instructed in a variety of disputes outside these core fields including difficult interlocutory applications, having lectured extensively on the CPR and related costs issues.
Colm acts for both Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of injury and related disputes with a particular focus on lower limb injuries, subtle brain injury (especially those leading to an increased risk of dementia), complex loss of earnings claims, hand injuries and long-term loss claims as well as fatalities. He is an acknowledged specialist in claims concerning the application of the Defective Premises Act, which has taken him to the Court of Appeal this year.
He is sought after by insurers for cases where fraud and exaggeration are suspected and has had success at striking out a number of such claims. Colm lectures regularly on the CPR, litigation tactics, defending fraud claims, bringing complex loss claims and issues arising from disability and interpretation of the Ogden reduction factors. Colm is also an accredited ADR Group Mediator.
Colm regularly speaks at training events and seminars, and also gives webinars for Practical Law, LexisNexis and others.
Provided by Chambers
Colm Nugent of Gatehouse Chambers manages a diverse caseload of catastrophic injury, psychiatric injury and fatal accident claims. He is known for his focus on occupiers' liability cases and his knowledge of the Defective Premises Act. His practice is balanced between claimants and defendants.
Provided by Chambers
Colm is truly impressive. He will go the extra mile and leave no stone unturned.
He is a very skilled advocate and has strong client care skills as well as the skill to cut through the detail in complex cases to provide advice which is both clear and concise.
His ability to find a clever, tactical solution that no one else thought of is well known, and he is very well liked by judges because he is not formulaic.
Colm is truly impressive. He will go the extra mile and leave no stone unturned.
He is a very skilled advocate and has strong client care skills as well as the skill to cut through the detail in complex cases to provide advice which is both clear and concise.
His ability to find a clever, tactical solution that no one else thought of is well known, and he is very well liked by judges because he is not formulaic.