Paul Hughes

Practice:

RTAs
Employers’ Liability
Public Authority Liability
Occupiers’ Liability
Credit Hire
Industrial Disease
CRU and CICA appeals
Costs

Profile:

Paul practises as a member of the common law group, specialising in the fields of personal injury and costs.

In the field of personal injury, Paul has extensive experience in all aspects of public and employer's liability, occupiers' liability and road traffic litigation including credit hire disputes. He is instructed by both claimants and defendants.

Paul's costs practice has developed into his primary area of practice. He is largely instructed by paying parties to attack costs although maintains a balance of recovery work for receiving parties. In addition to providing representation at detailed assessments, interim applications and appeals, Paul has a busy paperwork practice, undertaking a wide range of drafting and advisory work.

Authorship:

Along with other members of Chambers Paul has, since early 2005, contributed to the Costs Brief for the New Law Journal.

Paul regularly delivers talks to Solicitors and Insurers on topics of interest. Recent seminars have included:

Part 36 Offers and Payments
Contribution Proceedings
Low Velocity Impact Claims
Prematurity of Issue
Periodical Payments and Indexation
Costs – Recent Developments

Significant Reported Cases:

Jones v Caradon Catnic Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1821 (enforceability of CCFA)

Other Cases of interest:

Marvin v BAA Plc (October 2006, Pontefract CC, DJ Giles) (definition of “exceptional circumstances within CPR 45.12)

Mottershead v Liverpool CC (February 2007, Liverpool CC, DJ Smedley as Regional Costs Judge) (Claimant’s entitlement to Stage C premium after Rogers v Merthyr Tydfil County BC [2006] EWCA Civ 1134)

Recommendations:

Ranked in Chambers UK 2008:
for Costs Litigation : Paul “is earning glowing reviews from clients. Shrewd observers believe that “with a few more years under his belt, he will be a leading costs counsel .””

Legal 500 2008:
Paul Hughes is developing and specialises in legal costs litigation

Legal 500 2007:
"is developing a niche for costs litigation and has established a large advisory practice for his 2001 call"

Memberships:

Member of the Personal Injury Bar Association
Member of Northern and North Eastern Circuits

Career & Education:
University: Degree: Year of Call: Joined Chambers: Languages Spoken:	St Catherine's College, Oxford BA Jurisprudence 2001 (Inner Temple) 2002 Near fluent French and German, passable Spanish, active interest in other European languages

Career & Education:

University:

Degree:

Year of Call:

Joined Chambers:

Languages Spoken:

St Catherine's College, Oxford

BA Jurisprudence

2001 (Inner Temple)

2002

Near fluent French and German, passable Spanish, active interest in other

European languages