06/03/2026
Dominique Smith is instructed in a personal injury matter that involves a British woman who sustained injuries while on holiday in Barbados.
Her foot was crushed by a granite worktop in her hotel bedroom, causing her to spend the rest of her holiday using a wheelchair before flying home. Upon returning home, her condition worsened and she was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, spending several days in an intensive care unit.
Dominique is instructed by Jatinder Paul and Simon Lomax at Irwin Mitchell.
You can read press coverage of the case here.
You can read more about Dominique’s practice here.
They join us from Great James Street Chambers. Nick is an experienced leading junior, noted for his particular ability to cut through complex issues of fact and law in order to get to the heart of the case. Nick’s practice is in defending clients…
This week Anirudh Mandagere has written a longer briefing on the use by lawyers of artificial intelligence and how to avoid being accused of negligence (it’s not as straightforward as you may think); the link to his briefing is here. Meanwhile Sarah Prager KC draws…
The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce have produced a Legal Statement on Liability for AI Harms. Given that very few cases have reached the courts, the Legal Statement provides much-needed guidance to legal advisors and representatives. In this article Anirudh Mandagere sets out the key aspects of…
Deka Chambers: 5 Norwich Street, London EC4A 1DR