PETER BURNS

Call 1993     Gray’s Inn

Personal injuries
Professional liability
Business crime and regulatory

BA (Oxon)

burns@deanscourt.co.uk

‘Outstanding’
– Chambers UK, 2006
‘A clever guy...one of the foremost juniors’
– Chambers UK, 2008
‘Recommended’
– Legal 500, 2008
‘Comfortably as good as most silks.'
– Chambers UK, 2009
'increasingly experienced in high-value claims.'
- Legal 500, 2009
'the most able junior in the North of England for catastrophic injury cases.'
- Legal 500, 2010

Individual

Education

Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford (BA)
Inner Temple Pegasus Scholar to the USA

Publication

Kemp and Kemp (contributing editor)

Professional Association

Personal Injuries Bar Association

Reported Cases

Tomlinson -v- Congleton BC [2004] AC 14 (HL)
Viasystems -v- Thermal Transfer and others [2005] EWCA Civ 1151 (CA)
Whitwood -v- Drinkall [2004] 1 WLR 462 (CA)
Jones -v- JLA [2002] EWCA Civ 1120 (CA)
Oldham MBC -v- Secretary of State [2002] R (CR) 1-02 (Tribunal of Commissioners)