Richard Davison

Barrister Profile

Richard’s practice is a mix of personal injury, clinical negligence and employment. The greater part of his personal injury work has been for unions. He has done many cases of manual handling, occupational asthma and (increasingly) stress at work, bullying, harassment and assaults on staff by third parties. High value cases have included serious head injuries and numerous fatal accidents.

In clinical negligence, he is very familiar with birth injuries and Erb’s palsy and has done a wide variety of other types of claim.

His employment practice covers all fields of employment law but with a special interest in wrongful dismissal and disputes with agents.

Richard was appointed a part-time Employment Tribunal Chairman in 1999 and a Recorder in 2005.

Qualifications

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Professional Membership

Employment Law Bar Association
Personal Injury Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association

Interesting Cases

Keeley v Fosroc International [2006] IRLR 961 (CA) (entitlement to enhanced redundancy payment, provision in employee handbook, whether contractual)
Tassaruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v Wisteria Bay Ltd & Ors [2006] CILR (CICA) (agency of foreign government, whether entitled to assert state immunity in the Cayman Islands.)
Banks v Ablex Ltd [2005] IRLR 357 (CA) (harassment and bullying)
Raja v Van Hoogstraten [2004] 4 All ER 793 (CA) (striking out of proceedings for disobedience to court orders)
Health Development Agency v Parish [2004] IRLR 550 (EAT) (costs in Employment Tribunals)
Fitzgerald v University of Kent [2004] IRLR 550 (CA) (meaning of effective date of termination in unfair dismissal)
Appleby v Walsall Health Authority [1999] Lloyd’s Med LR 154 (HC) (limitation and date of knowledge in birth injury case)
Ogden v Airedale Health Authority [1996] 7 Med LR 153 (HC) (occupational asthma in healthcare worker caused by exposure to glutaraldehyde)