James Candlin

Barrister Profile

James has a broad specialist Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence practice with some general civil work in addition. He acts for both Claimants and Defendants in approximately equal measure. Areas of Expertise include:- 

Package Tour Regulations etc 1992 & Overseas injury – notably food poisoning and post infective irritable bowel syndrome, falls, boating, light aircraft and road traffic accidents with foreign jurisdictional issues

Public Authority Liability - 
Highways Act Claims - appearing extensively for highway authorities in relation to section 58 defences but also for Claimants. 
Local Authority Liability particularly in relation to nursing homes, care institutions and schools.
Also some Local Authority enforcement in relation to planning infringements (advertising hoardings) and highway encroachment 

Road Traffic - including catastrophic and fatal accidents and those concerning MIB agreements

Employers’ Liability - industrial and construction accidents and disease work including major injury/fatality, occupational deafness, VWF, WRULD, asbestos exposure, occupational sensitisation including asthma, dermatitis and allergic sensitization to latex, ammonia and scabies mites

Clinical Negligence - wide experience including delivery/birth injury, failure successfully to effect therapeutic abortion, non-detection of compartment compression syndrome and tumours, dental treatment, infection, ,prescribing errors and iatrogenic illness. Various lack of informed consent cases in particular cosmetic surgery, dental cosmetics and laser eye surgery.

Insurance - contractual disputes concerning policy terms notably in connection with critical illness and permanent health insurance policies but also property claims. Fire/Flood and Buildings Insurance claims

James was British Universities' Featherweight Boxing Champion in 1987 and Scottish Universities Champion 1987, took a University 1/2 blue, and won the Coup de l’automobile Club de Monaco in the Monte Carlo Historique Rally 1999. He is an accomplished sculler, skier, swimmer and keen all round sportsman.
He lives in Islington, London and is married with 2 children. 

Qualifications

University of Aberdeen BSc (Hons) Pharmacology
Westminster University (Dip Law)

Professional Membership

Personal Injury Bar Association

Interesting Cases

Howes et al v Thomas Cook Tour Operations Ltd (2005) - group action involving 30 all inclusive holiday Claimants suffering Post infective irritable bowel syndrome
Re Prestage (2005) – Inquest involving 35 witnesses concerning a death resulting from vehicle movement systems failure at a container freight hub
Powell v SW Trains Ltd & Railtrack (2004) Paddington rail disaster case involving Fatal Accident Act proceedings against Defendants and simultaneous Inheritance(Provision for Family and Dependents) Act and apportionment claims between deceased’s cohabitee and his former wife and children
Blackburn v Stoddart (2004) fatal accident resulting from driver swerving around pheasant. Complexities of death of deceased between decrees nisi and absolute, considerations of section 4 benefits and quantification of widow’s potential divorce settlement as her dependency
Marlborough v MOD (2001) QB Occupational asthma in naval airman exposed to Toluene solvent
Larby v Canterbury Tales (2001) Package Tour Regulations 1992, reindeer sleigh accident in Lapland
Dzivenue v Ansari (2000) QB Fatal Accident case concerning non-diagnosis by GP over 5 years of a slow growing glomus jugulare tumour manifest by unilateral hearing loss followed by successive loss of function of cranial nerves
Marsden & Wyness v Eubank (1999) Fireworks accident on Brighton beach - serious facial cosmetic injuries