Marc Asquith
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Marc Asquith
| Call to the bar | 1999 Middle Temple |
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| Education | LLB (Hons), University of Wales BVC, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Profile | PRACTICE
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 two-hour road traffic inquests, through two-day aviation fatality inquests, to multi-day jury inquests into fatalities involving 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 early 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 Magistrate’s Court. |
| masquith@young-st-chambers.com | |
| Clerk | Rachel Campbell |
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