Sophie Allan

Practice:

Personal injury
Road traffic litigation (including criminal prosecutions)
Industrial disease
Employers' liability
Public liability

Profile:

Sophie practises as a member of the common law group in all aspects of personal injury work including, public and employers' liability, industrial disease and road traffic litigation.

Sophie is developing a particular interest in industrial disease work.  She has been instructed as second junior counsel for the Defendant in the pleural plaques test litigation to be heard by the House of Lords at the end of June 2007.

Significant Reported Cases:

The Nimrod Crash Inquest (Oxford Coroner’s Court) – Largest loss of UK service personnel in a single incident since the Falklands War

Rothwell v Chemical & Insulating Co. Ltd “The Pleural Plaques test litigation”
 Reported in the Court of Appeal [2006] ICR 1458. Due before the House of Lords in late June 2007. The litigation has been driven by the Defendants who wish to try to bring to an end a very large volume of litigation whereby those with inert discs on the inside of the chest wall arising from previous asbestos exposure have been receiving ever increasing levels of general and special damage. The Defendants succeeded before the Court of Appeal. Estimates vary about the value of the savings to the industry if this litigation is successful but estimates have appeared in the industry press in the region of £1 Billion.

Memberships:

Lincoln’s Inn
Northern and North Eastern Circuit

Career & Education

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Joined Chambers:

Newcastle

BA (Joint Honours) English Language and Literature (first class)

2004 (Lincoln’s Inn)

Hardwicke and Denning Scholarships

2005

    

Sophie Allan

Year of Call:  2004

Specialises In:
Personal Injury

Clerked by:
 Stephen Loxton

 

 

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