Richard Davison

Barrister Profile

Richard’s practice is a mix of personal injury, clinical negligence and employment work. 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. 

Richard has also recently been involved in a number of commercial and professional negligence actions in the UK and the Cayman Islands.

His employment practice covers all fields of employment law but with a special interest in high-value wrongful dismissal in the High Court and contract disputes with agents. His employment work also concentrates on disability discrimination .

Richard's personal injury practice has involved substantial cases involving catastrophic injuries and death.

Appointments

Part Time Chairman of Employment Tribunals (1999) 
Recorder (2005)
Attorney General's Panel of Special Advocates (2009)

Qualifications

Sedbergh School, Cumbria
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1978-1981

Professional Membership

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

Publications

Richard has written and lectured on the impact of the Human Rights Act on fatal accident claims.

Interesting Cases

Tassaruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v Wisteria Bay Ltd & Others [2008] CILR (Grand Court) Commercial fraud, striking out for non-compliance with orders for disclosure, recognition of title acquired under foreign law.
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)
Eller v Grovecrest Investments Ltd [1995] QB 272 (CA) Equitable set-off

These are cases reported in recognised law reports. Richard has had many other cases reported in Kemp & Kemp and APIL PI Focus.