DAVID BOYLE
Call 1996 Gray’s Inn
MA (Cantab)
Personal injuries
Civil Fraud (Motor)
Clinical Negligence
Professional Negligence
Common Law
Head of Mini-Pupillage
boyle@deanscourt.co.uk
‘Strong, effective Counsel, kept very busy’
– Legal 500, 2006/2007
‘Recommended’
– Legal 500, 2008
'increasingly experienced in high-value claims.'
- Legal 500, 2009
'recommended for high-value claims.'
- Legal 500, 2010
' a popular junior for high value claims.'
- Legal 500, 2011
Education
Areas of Practice
All elements of personal injury work:Fatal and catastrophic accidents;
Employer’s liability, including disease;
Occupier’s liability;
Public liability;
Road traffic accidents, including accident reconstruction, fraudulent claims and low velocity claims
Insurance fraud:
Motor claims
Arson claims
Burglary claims
Professional Associations
Northern Circuit
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Notable Cases
Barnes v The Scout Association, [2010] EWCA Civ 1476: Appeal by Defendant on the basis that Trial Judge had misdirected himself as to relevance of the social utility of the activity in which he found the Claimant had been injured. Permission granted on paper, but appeal dismissed (Ward & Smith LJJ, Jackson LJ dissenting).
Ward v Wooder, Silber J. 19/02/04: Successful appeal by Defendant against Order that Defendant pay Claimant’s assessed costs of action where Claimant recovered £500 for general damages in a liability disputed Low Velocity Impact case. Claimant’s damages reduced to £300 on appeal, with fixed costs of the action below. One of the first reported LVI cases.
Juttla v FMX Food Merchants Import Export Co. Ltd & Pignatelli, Teare J. 16/12/08: Successful appeal by Claimant to join Second Defendant, a director in the First Defendant company, to the action qua employer when (uninsured) First Defendant purporting to admit Claimant’s employment status. Case settled shortly thereafter.
James v MANCAT, HHJ Armitage QC 3/03/09: Successful appeal by Defendant regarding need for Claimant (litigant in person) to pay towards the cost of joint Psychiatric evidence required to establish (a) whether the Claimant suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and (b) whether the same constituted disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Shaida v Mughal v KGM Motor Insurance, Rec. Price QC OBE 25/08/10: Successful application by the Third Party (the Claimant’s own RTA insurers) for indemnity costs against the Claimant, wasted costs against the Claimant’s solicitors and third party costs against the Claimant’s hire company, where Third Party joined to defend Counterclaim in circumstances where Claimant pursuing false claim in first instance.