Young Street Chambers are delighted to announce the arrival of a new tenant, Mr Marc Asquith.Please find below his profile. This is available within the Civil listing on the main menu, alongwith the other barrister profiles. For the purposes of printing, please find it also as a link below.
Marc Asquith
masquith@young-st-chambers.com
Call to the bar: 1999 Middle Temple
Areas of practice: Civil and Crime
Education: LLB (Hons), University of Wales and BVC, Manchester Metropolitan University
Clerks: Nick Geary, Peter Kelly and Rachel Campbell
PRACTICE
- General civil litigation
- Personal injury
- Road traffic accidents
- Industrial injury and disease
- Recreational Aviation
- Inquests
- CRU appeals
- CICA appeals
- Costs
- Magistrates’ Court crime work
EXPERIENCE
Marc joined chambers having spent nearly a decade forming and leading the in-house advocacy team with one of the top firms of solicitors in the UK. During that time Marc built up wide experience of a range of both personal injury and non-personal injury civil litigation acting both for claimants and defendants. Areas included were: catastrophic physical injury, brain injury, industrial injury and disease, road traffic, EL and general PL claims, including sporting injuries.
Marc is hugely experienced in Low Velocity Impact claims and road traffic claims where fraud is an issue. His industrial disease practice has included HAVS, NIHL, and all forms of asbestos related disease.
Marc is a specialist in procedural matters. He was counsel for the Defendant at first instance in Bennett v Compass Group UK and Ireland Ltd [2002]. He has regularly appeared before many of the north of England Designated Civil Judges, both on late and complex applications and appeals.
Marc also regularly appears in Coroner’s Courts throughout the UK. His experience ranges from 2 hour road traffic fatality inquests, through to 2 day aviation fatality inquests, to multi-day jury inquests into fatalities arising from the failings of the various health and social care authorities.
Whilst in-house, in one year, Marc recovered over £500,000 for a single insurer client in CRU Appeals.
Having lead an in-house team (indeed Marc practised for a short time as a solicitor), Marc developed an exceptional costs awareness and experience. He obtained one of the first strike outs of a CFA and has substantial experience of Detailed Assessment hearings.
Marc’s personal interest in recreational aviation, he is a Law Society registered expert in such matters, and his service as a member of a local authority, give him particular insight into claims involving such issues.
Marc has a reputation for taking on cases which are not the run of the mill for the average solicitor. Most recently he successfully defended a prosecution for disturbance of Great Crested Newts under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and The Conservation (Natural Habitats & c) Regulations 1994 in the Magistrates’ Court
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