David Pilling
- Call:
- 1999 Middle Temple
- Education:
- BA (Hons) University of Sheffield
CPE Manchester Metropolitan University
- Practice:
- David Pilling is a member of the Civil Team, having joined Young Street Chambers as pupil to Christopher Limb in 2002. His particular areas of practice are:
- Personal Injury;
- Clinical Negligence
- Landlord and Tenant
- Costs
- Experience:
- Mr Pilling is a member of APIL and PIBA and his personal injury and clinical negligence practice is undertaken mainly for Claimants. He is a member of APIL's clinical negligence special interest group. He is the co-author of a chapter dealing with expert evidence for a forthcoming Jordans/APIL looseleaf publication Personal Injury: Law, Practice and Precendents.
His housing practice covers both public and private tenancies, dealing with possession, disrepair, homelessness and boundary disputes on behalf of both landlords and tenants.
Prior to commencing pupillage, Mr Pilling was a director of a legal costs company advising major insurer clients and local authorities and appearing in English v Clipson (the precursor to the TAG test cases) and at District Judge level in Sarwar v Alam. Mr Pilling is now regularly instructed by both receiving and paying parties at first instance and on appeal. He was extensively involved in costs litigation arising from the North West Child Abuse Cases group and has experience of dealing with the costs of receivers and trustees in bankruptcy. Mr Pilling also gives regular lectures on costs, both to local law societies and to individual firms of solicitors.
Reported cases include:- AB and others v Liverpool City Council [2003] EWHC 1539
- Graham v Chorley Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 92