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About
Provided by Jamie Smith KC
Practice Areas
Principal areas of practice are professional liability (with particular emphasis on auditors and accountants, lawyers and insurance brokers and on claims involving allegations of dishonesty), regulatory work and insurance. Notable cases include: IAP v Rosser [2018] BCC 751 (fraud claim against solicitors); R (Lewin) v FRC [2018] 1 WLR 2867 (third party rights to fairness in the audit regulatory context); Khanty-Mansiysk v Forsters [2018] 1 Costs LR 89 (CA) (settlement agreement precluding claim against solicitors); IEGL v Zurich [2016] AC 509 (SC) (treatment of mesothelioma claims for the purposes of EL insurance purposes); and Holgate v Addleshaw Goddard [2019] PNLR 32 (jurisdictional issues in context of negligence claim against company administrators).
Career
MA (Cantab). Called to Bar 1995. Joined 4 New Square 1996. Took Silk in 2015.
Professional Memberships
PNBA, COMBAR, Chancery Bar Association, LCLCBA, BILA, ARDL, FSLA
Publications
Editor of Jackson & Powell, Professional Liability.
Personal
Enjoys cycling.
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