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Sian Reeves

Sian Reeves

  • Called to BAR: 2006
  • Clinical Negligence
  • Employment Law
  • Insurance & Re-Insurance
  • Personal Injury
  • Public Law

Summary

Practice areas Clinical Negligence Costs Employment Fraud Insurance Personal Injury & Fatal Accidents Professional Discipline Public Law

Specialist areas of law include

  • Clinical Negligence
  • Employment Law
  • Insurance & Re-Insurance
  • Personal Injury
  • Public Law

Profile description

Profile

Civil/Commercial:  Recent experience of acting for clients across a broad range of civil and commercial disputes including: Breaches of contract and warranties; consumer credit; conversion claims; director's liability disputes, including issues of breach of fiduciary duties and injunctive relief; cases involving the piercing of the corporate veil; franchise agreements; property damage cases, including claims against builders in negligence and breach of contract; and supply and sale of goods disputes.  Notable cases include: a week-long breach of warranty case in the Mercantile Court where I was sole counsel instructed less than a week before trial; and Braganza v. BP Shipping Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 1423 (Comm) (overturned on appeal: [2013] EWCA Civ 230, but there is an extant petition to the Supreme Court), a case concerning the contractual liability of an employer to pay death in service benefit (I was junior counsel up until trial). 

Costs:  Experience of acting for both paying and receiving parties at first instance and on appeal in the High Court, the Supreme Court Costs Office and the County Court and in an advisory capacity across a broad spectrum of areas of costs law.   Recent experience includes: Detailed assessments of inter-party costs; assessments of solicitor and client costs under the Solicitors Act 1974; assessments of costs payable by legally aided parties; recoverability of costs in cases involving allegations of professional misconduct by lawyers; costs budgets and costs case management hearings; and wasted and non-party costs orders against directors.  A recent notable case is Finglands Coachways Ltd v. O'Hare [2014] EWHC 1513 (QB) where I was instructed for the successful Respondent and in which Cranston J held that a costs judge was entitled to apply a dual test of necessity and proportionality even where costs were not determined to be globally disproportionate.

Employment:   Experience of acting for claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal and County Court and in an advisory capacity in all areas of employment law.

Insurance:  My recent experience involves significant experience of motor insurance disputes, including: Coverage and indemnity disputes; dual insurance; fraud; and liability issues arising under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and The European Communities (Rights against Insurers) Regulations 2002.  Recent experience also includes coverage and indemnity issues in relation to household insurance and issues under the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930.

Personal Injury/Inquests:  Experience of acting for claimants and defendants in the High Court and County Court and in an advisory capacity across all areas of personal injury law.  Recent experience of: Acting for claimants in product liability cases; appellants in cases involving the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Particular; and acting for a range of interested persons at inquests.   I was instructed as junior counsel in 2010 and 2011 on behalf of Transport for London in the Inquest into the London Bombings of 7 July 2005.

Professional Negligence:  Recent experience of acting for claimants in professional negligence actions involving estate agents, independent financial advisors and solicitors. 

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