Personal Injury – Special interest in Employer’s Liability including factory accidents. Substantial experience in high value Fatal Accident claims. Other areas of practice include Travel claims, Stress at Work claims, Industrial Disease claims and Clinical Negligence
Health & Safety – Acting for the Prosecution and Defendant in Health & Safety Prosecutions.
Insurance Fraud – Acting for insurance companies defending fraudulent claims.
Inquests – Acting for Claimants and Defendants at inquests
Recommended by the Legal 500 for personal injury work:
Recommended as a leading junior in 2013
Recommended as a leading junior in 2012
Charles Curtis has ‘a very commanding presence in court’
Legal 500 2011
‘a good all rounder, especially so on quantum’
Legal 500 2010
Durham University (BA Hons)
PIBA, HSLA
Acted for the prosecution arising out of the death of a toddler at Dicky Birds Nursery. Company pleaded guilty to Health and Safety Offences. Fined £180,000 plus costs.
Instructed by the local authority in the inquest into the death of Ellie Butler, killed by her Father when aged 6.
Acting on behalf of Mrs Coleman. Mr Coleman was killed and Mrs Coleman was very severely injured in a road traffic accident, when the Defendant rode into them on his motorbike. Claim settled following JSM with substantial compensation.
Successful Defence of 21 fraudulent road traffic claims. HHJ Baucher found claim to be fraudulent.
Succcessful Defence of staged collision claim. HHJ Saggerson found claims to be fraudulent.
Central London County Court. HHJ Mitchell. Acted for Tesco in a complex fraud ring, involving 16 road traffic collisions and 73 claims. Claims dismissed following trial.
This inquest arose out of the death of a 22 month old girl who was attending a nursery school. As part of an activity session, cubes of jelly were made available in a sensory tray. Tiya choked on a cube of jelly taken from this tray. The jury considered that the death was contributed to by neglect. Keith Morton QC represented the company operating the nursery, Tim Sharpe represented a senior manager of the company and Charles Curtis acted for the London Borough of Merton.
Acted pro bono for the parents of Rene Tkacik, who was killed working on the Crossrail project. Jury critical of the working methods.
Acted for the Claimant in his claim for stress at work. Claim settled at mediation.
Orchestrated slam-on staged accidents “swindle” exposed.
22 August 2013
Westminster Coroner’s Court. Acted for the family of Mr Radulescu who was found to have been unlawfully killed, when a lift on which he was working fell five floors
Romford County Court: Award of exemplary damages against two motorists involved in a fraudulent claim
Central London County Court: Award of wasted costs against Claimant’s solicitors, who had failed adequately to investigate allegations of fraud
Acted for Claimant who sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle accident. Settled for £1 million
Oxford County Court: Acted for Claimant who suffered very sever injuries in a road traffic accident. Claim settled in excess of £1 million and periodical payments.
Birmingham County Court: Acting for one of the Defendants in claim arising out of the death of a holidaymaker from Legionnaires disease
Central London County Court: Successful defence of a claim for hire charges in excess of £100,000, when Claimant disbelieved.
High Court: Acted for Defendant. Claimant suffered traumatic amputation of arm in accident abroad.
High Court : Enforceability of Periodical Payments Order against insurer and/or the MIB
CCLC HHJ Collender QC: Award of exemplary damages against participants in a fraud on an insurance company
Central London County Court HHJ Mitchell: Exemplary damages awarded against fraudster following bogus road traffic accident.
High Court – Stanley Burton J: Multi-million pound claim arising out of light aircraft crash in Cornwall
3rd February 2016
Facing up to the challenge of fraud rings.
Please see link below for the second edition of TGC Fraud Update, a publication which was set up with the stated aim of facilitating the sharing of information about decided claims involving issues of road traffic fraud and related matters. Thank you also for all of the kind words and helpful feedback received about the inaugural edition.
5th November 2019
Charles Curtis has been representing the family of EVHA JANATH at the Inquest into her death at Drayton Manor Theme Park. Evha, who was 11 and was on a school trip to the park, was thrown from the Splash Canyon Ride and into the water. She sadly drowned before she was found and recovered by park staff. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death and noted, as part of their conclusions, that Evha had been in the water for 18 minutes before she was recovered by Park Staff.
Read more25th April 2017
We are delighted to announce our second major seminar of 2017.
Read more3rd February 2016
Facing up to the challenge of fraud rings
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