TIMOTHY TROTMAN

Call 1983     Middle Temple


Clinical Negligence

Personal injuries 

Chancery & Commercial

Common Law

Professional Negligence

MA (Cantab)
FCI Arb

trotman@deanscourt.co.uk

Appointments

Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators 1999

Education

Nottingham High School and St. John’s College, Cambridge (MA)

Areas of Practice

Personal injuries
- Including highway and factory accidents, industrial disease (asbestos, deafness, HAVS/WRULD), stress, brain damage, serious spinal injuries

Clinical negligence
- Including claims for wrongful conception, misdiagnosis and inappropriate drug therapy

Construction and professional negligence
- Disputes in all areas

Publications

“The Scope of Duty Test after The Achilleas” New Law Journal 27th January 2012

‘Pacific Associates -v- Baxter: Time for Reconsideration?’ Construction Law Journal 1999 Vol 15, No. 6
‘Relying on settlements: The rationale of Biggin -v- Permanite’ Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2000 Part 2, May 2000, p222
‘Local Authority Liability and Defective Buildings: The implications of Marcic -v- Thames Water Utilities Ltd’ Construction Law Journal 2003 Vol 19, No. 1

Professional Associations

Personal Injuries Bar Association
Technology and Construction Bar Association

Reported Cases

Pritchard -v- Clwyd CC [1993] PIQR p21
Rooney -v- Automotive Financial Group Ltd PMILL 1998/14 p74
R(on the application of M) -v- CICA [2002] EWHC Admin 2464
Newfield Construction Ltd -v- Tomlinson [2004] 97 Con LR (HHJ Coulson QC) (Arbitration/Costs/Mistake of law)