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With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
18/09/2024
Following a three-day preliminary issue liability trial, Anthony Johnson (instructed by Harriet Mearns-Thomas of Admiral Law) managed to establish liability in negligence against a company that had been contracted to escort an abnormally large load that was being transported at night on the basis that it had taken insufficient steps to alert drivers travelling in the opposite direction to the fact that their carriageway was partially obstructed by the load.
The case involved numerous challenges, not least that it involved making out a breach of duty in the tort of negligence in a novel situation where there was no previous authority delineating the ambit of the duty of care. The Claimant herself had no memory of the index incident or the lead up to it, meaning that the case had to be pieced together from extraneous evidence. There were also multiple defendants involved in the claim and various other procedural issues that have arisen over the course of the period of almost five years that Anthony has been involved in the case thus far.
The matter will now proceed to a further trial on causation and quantum in the event that a settlement cannot now be reached.
