Freya Newbery

Barrister Profile

Freya has an established specialist Personal Injury practice, encompassing all aspects within this field, with particular emphasis on complex and substantial employers’ liability and road traffic claims and industrial disease work. She regularly acts for both claimants and defendants and accepts instructions on a CFA basis.

She is also regularly instructed in matters involving Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence (lawyers, architects, surveyors and other construction professionals), Construction disputes and fire, flood and other Property Damage litigation.

Freya has been a member of the Bar Committee responding to the Woolf Reforms and the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee of the General Council of the Bar. She is currently a Community Panel Member for Youth Offender Referral Orders in the London Borough of Lambeth. She also regularly teaches the Ethics course for New Practitioners at the Bar and is involved in the continuing professional education of solicitors and lectures in advocacy, evidence and civil procedure.

Appointments

Recorder since 2004

Qualifications

New Hall College, Cambridge (MA)

Professional Membership

PIBA, PNBA

Publications

Assistant Editor: Odgers on Pleadings
Contributor: Bullen & Leake Precedents of Pleadings

Interesting Cases

Bellefield Computer Services Ltd v E Turner & Sons Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 1823 (CA) - Extent of architect’s liability when engaged to provide guideline drawings.
Plant Construction Ltd v JMH Constructions Services Ltd [2000] BLR 137
Beoco Ltd v Alfa Laval Co Ltd [1995] QB 137 - Application of tort principles to loss of profit in breach of contract claim.