Year of Call: 2012
Practice Areas
Piers practices principally in personal injury litigation, inquests & inquires and motor insurance fraud. Piers has a busy civil practice, appearing for Claimants and Defendants at CMCCs and multi-track trials. He also assists clients in an advisory capacity and with drafting pleadings and schedules of loss. He is currently instructed on the Manchester Arena Inquiry arising from the 2017 terror attack.
Personal Injury
Piers has extensive experience in relation to liability for road traffic, employer’s liability and public liability accidents and advises clients in conference or in writing in relation to prospects, issues relating to insurance indemnity and offers. He regularly assists clients with personal injury or fatal accident claims involving large or long-term losses and accepts instructions to draft schedules and counter-schedules.
Inquests
Alongside his civil practice, Piers has a keen interest in Inquest proceedings, particularly those relating to Health & Safety matters and those involving juries. He has acted for families and other interested persons in Inquests arising from a range of contexts, including faulty lift machinery and a police shooting.
Piers has been involved in a number of larger-scale or high-profile Inquests. He was instructed by the IPCC on the renewed inquests arising from the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. He acted for a bereaved family in the Inquests into the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, led by Dominic Adamson QC.
Piers is currently acting for the Manchester Arena in relation to the Public Inquiry into the deaths arising from the 2017 terror attack, led by Andrew O’Connor QC.
Civil Fraud
Piers is a member of chambers’ civil fraud team and has extensive trial experience in relation to personal injury claims involving issues of causation, occupancy, induced or staged road traffic collisions, and dishonestly exaggerated/misattributed losses. He has particular interest in cases involving suspected third-party enablers and similar fact evidence. In his Defendant personal injury practice, Piers has obtained findings of fundamental dishonesty and dismissal under section 57 Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. Piers has also represented organisations involved in contractual disputes where fraud is an essential element of the claim or defence.
Piers understands the importance of findings of fraud to Claimants and Defendants alike and routinely advises clients in conference in relation to allegations of fraud made by or against them.
Credit Hire
Piers undertakes a significant volume of credit hire litigation and handles credit hire claims of fast- and multi-track value. He has a deep understanding of ongoing changes in this area and their impact on case tactics and trial preparation. As well as representation at trials, he is able to advise tactically and draft counter-schedules.
BPTC – BPP Law School, Holborn (2012)
BA Jurisprudence (Law) – Exeter College, University of Oxford (2010)
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Inner Temple
A minor rear-end shunt was alleged to have given rise to brain damage and psychological injuries.
Read moreInquest into the deaths of 96 football supports at the Hillsborough Football Stadium in 1989. Acted for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
24th November 2021
Please see link below to the second edition of the TGC Inquests and Inquiries newsletter, a twice-yearly publication, containing articles on recent key legal developments in these fields, as well as a selection of recent noteworthy cases in which Members of Chambers have been involved.
4th May 2017
Please see link below for Issue 5 of TGC Fraud Update, a publication we have set up with the stated aim of facilitating the sharing of information about decided claims involving issues of road traffic fraud and related matters.
22nd June 2016
Stemming the tide of the fraud.
Please see link below for the third edition of TGC Fraud Update, a publication we have set up with the stated aim of facilitating the sharing of information about decided claims involving issues of road traffic fraud and related matters.
24th November 2021
Welcome to the second edition of the TGC Inquests and Inquiries newsletter, a twice-yearly publication, containing articles on recent key legal developments in these fields, as well as a selection of recent noteworthy cases in which Members of Chambers have been involved.
Our previous edition, published in March 2021, was published one year on from the first Covid-19 national lockdown, which had a huge impact on
inquests and public inquiries alike. At that time, inquests and inquiries were tentatively starting again, albeit with social distancing and additional technology measures. Now many inquests and inquiries are going ahead in person (or with hybrid in person/video link arrangements).
As such, it has been a busy few months for the Inquests and Inquiries team at Temple Garden Chambers. We were delighted to see that our recent work in this area has been rewarded with Chambers being promoted to a Band 1 ranking set for Inquests & Public Inquiries in Chambers and Partners UK Bar Rankings 2022, with a number of individuals being ranked individually, namely Andrew O’Connor QC, Cathryn McGahey QC, David Barr QC, Dominic Adamson
QC, Keith Morton QC, Nicholas Moss QC and Fiona Canby. All of these individuals were also ranked in the Legal 500 for Inquests and Inquiries, alongside Sian Reeves. We congratulate all members of the TGC Inquests and Inquiries team on this brilliant news.
8th May 2019
The inquests arising from the deaths in the London Bridge and Borough Market terror attack on 3 June 2017 started yesterday in front of the Chief Coroner, His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft QC in Court 1 at the Central Criminal Court.
Dominic Adamson, David White, Piers Taylor and Ellen Robertson are instructed by Patrick Maguire of Slater and Gordon on behalf of the family of Xavier Thomas.
Read more4th July 2017
Welcome to the very first edition of TGC’s Costs Newsletter! Costs has been a huge part of our practice at TGC for as long as it has been recognised as a discrete area of law. Whilst the team has naturally changed and evolved over that time, it has retained phenomenal strength and depth from its leadership right through to its most junior members. We pride ourselves on being leaders in the field and being able to offer a client service level second to none. We remain extremely grateful for our Directory recognition, and through 2017 we’ve reinvigorated our energy levels as a team being ever ready to serve!
Read more4th May 2017
TGC Fraud Update May 2017, a publication we have set up with the stated aim of facilitating the sharing of information about decided claims involving issues of road traffic fraud and related matters.
Read more22nd June 2016
Stemming the tide of the fraud.
Please see link below for the third edition of TGC Fraud Update, a publication we have set up with the stated aim of facilitating the sharing of information about decided claims involving issues of road traffic fraud and related matters.
27th April 2016
The jury decided that the 96 deceased had been unlawfully killed. The inquests were the longest in British legal history.
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