02/09/2022
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Temple Garden Chambers is a leading common law set based in London and The Hague.
With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
Temple Garden Chambers is a leading common law set based in London and The Hague.
With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
Practice Areas
Unrivalled expertise and bench strength in insurance disputes involving serious allegations of fraud.
Temple Garden Chambers is the only Band 1 set in England and Wales recommended for its excellence in Motor Insurance Fraud litigation by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in each year this specialism has featured.
The team consists of Senior Juniors to Juniors of less than 5 years call having fraud work as a core part of their practices.
Temple Garden Chambers has led the way in extending the ambit of law in the field of civil insurance fraud. Its members have appeared in the leading cases in every specialism in the field and have been responsible for innovating and shaping the common law over the last decade to tackle the scourge of dishonesty in insurance litigation. Such dishonesty impacts on all litigants and their lawyers making civil litigation more adversarial, costly and time consuming than it should be.
Members have extensive experience in every fraud specialism, including: Staged, contrived and induced accidents; High value personal injury cases involving exaggeration and fundamental dishonesty; Committal for contempt; Exemplary damages and the tort of deceit; The use of similar fact evidence in defeating fraud rings; Telematics; Bogus passenger claims and LVI litigation.
In addition to the large amount of motor fraud work coming into chambers, members specialise in all cases where dishonesty is alleged, including EL/PL fraud; theft, arson and dishonest first party fraud; and, fraudulent holiday sickness / food poisoning claims.
TGC also has experience in policy and technical coverage disputes concerning indemnity, the Road Traffic Act and the MIB and members have acted for specialist insurers and self-insured organisations in cases involving business protection, motor trade, fleet policies, theft, flood, contents and property damage.
Quite apart from fraud, TGC is highly acclaimed in the related fields of personal injury, costs and credit hire. The specialist fraud counsel at TGC integrate their expertise in those fields to ensure that a complete service is offered to every client.
For more information contact our clerks on +44 (0)20 7583 1315 or send us an email.
George Davies acted for the insurer in contempt proceedings brought against an claimant who had been found to have fabricated her involvement in a road traffic collision. The claimant had been caught out by her reliance on a handwritten note...
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Anthony Johnson acted for the successful Defendant/Respondent in the Court of Appeal in this case which sought to explore the correct interpretation and[AJ1] the validity of a Claimant’s Part 36 offer for the purposes of determining whether the costs consequences...
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Edward Hutchin (instructed by Andrew Thomson of DAC Beachcroft) represented the successful insurer in this case in which the dishonest Claimant was found guilty on two counts of Contempt of Court. Video footage had shown the Claimant, a boxer, in...
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Dishonest litigant sentenced to 5 months’ immediate custody for false personal injury claim. Paul McGrath and James Henry, instructed by Benjamin Leech of Keoghs LLP, secured a committal order of immediate imprisonment for 5 months for contempt of court against...
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Alex Glassbrook (instructed by Andrew Baker of Horwich Farrelly) represented the successful motor insurer. A claim for credit hire charges exceeding £80,000 had been claimed in relation to a vehicle allegedly damaged beyond use in a road traffic accident, and...
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James Laughland appeared for the successful insurer in a 5-day contempt of court application against 9 Defendants. It was alleged that each had made false statements of truth in County Court personal injury claims in relation to 3 road traffic...
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Unrivalled expertise and bench strength in insurance disputes involving serious allegations of fraud.
