Benedict Leech

Barrister Profile

Ben specialises in personal injury law. He has a broad range of experience acting for both Claimants and Defendants in employers’ liability, public liability, road traffic, occupiers’ liability, Fatal Accidents Act, Animals Act and holiday claims. Particular areas of expertise include industrial deafness, stress at work claims and cases involving low velocity collisions. He accepts CFA instructions.
His professional negligence work includes claims against accountants, architects, surveyors and solicitors and he has a particular interest in claims arising out of failed personal injury litigation. He also has extensive experience of credit hire litigation, having advised one of the market leaders on various aspects of the law.
Ben regularly undertakes lectures and seminars on a variety of topics for the continuing professional development of solicitors, most recently to the Motor Accident Solicitors’ Society on the subject of low velocity collisions following Armstrong & Connor v First York.

Qualifications

Trinity College, Cambridge (BA Hons)
College of Law, York (DipLaw)

Professional Membership

PIBA

Interesting Cases

Sean McGhie v British Telecommunications plc, CA, [2005] EWCA Civ 48 – Successful appeal against a judge’s exercise of his discretion pursuant to s.33 Limitation Act 1980.
Interface Properties Ltd v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd, CA, [2004] EWCA Civ 1687 – Claim concerned insurer’s refusal to indemnify for loss of vehicle by theft. Appeal concerned fairness of trial in which findings of dishonesty were made but not pleaded.
Hickman v Secretary of State for the Home Department, QBD – Claim brought by a young prisoner who sustained a brain injury during an assault whilst on remand.