Oliver Campbell KC

Practice Areas

Health and safety; group actions; product liability, inquests and inquiries; and environment.

For more than a decade he has appeared regularly in the highest profile health and safety and manslaughter prosecutions. These have included the Sellafield and Network Rail appeals; Eastbourne pier prosecution; Marks and Spencer asbestos prosecution; British Cycling prosecution; Falcon Crane prosecution; the Hatfield train crash prosecution; and the prosecution arising from the Averies waste sites fires. He has been recognised as Chambers UK ‘Health and Safety Silk of the Year’, and before taking silk as junior of the year.

Oliver also specialises in all aspects of product liability, acting for both claimants and defendants. He has particular experience of group actions including data protection and environmental group actions, as well as product liability group actions. Examples of such group actions include: the VW NOx Emissions litigation; the Lloyd v Google claim before the Supreme Court; the TSB mortgage prisoners group claim; the OCENSA pipeline litigation; the Mercedes NOx emissions litigation; the Viridor Runcorn environmental group claim; the BMW NOx emissions litigation; the Lloyds / HBOS group litigation; the Metal on Metal hip litigation; the Para Red and Sudan Red food contamination litigation; the Lariam litigation; and the PIP litigation.

He regularly appears in major inquests and inquiries, including: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry; the Ben Leonard Scouts inquest; the inquest arising out of the Vauxhall helicopter crash; Avonmouth Bridge disaster; Potters Bar rail accident; Basildon hospital legionella outbreak. He also has considerable experience of criminal and civil environmental claims, including waste management and pollution claims.

Career

MA (Oxon). President of the Oxford Union (1990). Advocacy prize ICSL (1992). Called 1992. Chief Examiner Civil Litigation BPTC (2015¬-2019). Trustee of the Lambeth Law Centre (2010-2019). Appointed KC in 2014. Appointed as a Recorder in 2020.

Professional Memberships

Founder member of the Health & Safety Lawyers Association. Member of the Commercial Bar Association.

Publications

Contributor to Halsbury's Laws; Contributing editor to the 'International Product Law Manual'.