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Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit (2022)
Thank you for choosing to instruct me in your case. I will need to collect and hold your personal information in order to represent you. I will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. I will do all that I reasonably can to ensure I do not infringe your rights or undermine your trust. This Privacy Notice describes the information I collect about you, how it is used and shared, and your rights regarding it.
Data Controller
I am registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller for the personal data that I hold and process as a barrister. My registered address is Temple Garden Chambers, 1 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London, EC4Y 9DA and my registration number is ZA109009.
Data Collection
All of the information that I hold about you is provided to me or gathered solely in the course of and for the purposes of your case, proceedings or any related matter.
Lawful Basis For Processing Your Information
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires all organisations that process personal data to have a Lawful Basis for doing so. The Lawful Bases identified in the GDPR are:
Examples Of Legitimate Interests
My Lawful Basis is Legitimate Interest namely the provision of professional services to you and the proper exercise of my professional obligations and responsibilities. My Lawful Bases may also include: consent and/or performance of a contract with you or steps to enter a contract with you and/or compliance with a legal obligation. In so far as I process sensitive personal data that is necessary in relation to legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal advice and/or otherwise for establishing, exercising or defending legal rights and/or for administering justice.
I Use Your Information To
I do not use automated decision-making in the processing of your personal data.
I collect and process both personal data and special categories of personal data as defined in the GDPR. This includes:
I May Share Your Personal Data With:
Transfers To Third Countries & International Organisations
I do not transfer any personal data to third countries or international organisations.
Retention
I retain your personal data while you remain a client and for as long as in necessary for me to meet my legal and professional obligations. My Retention and Disposal Policy (copy available on request) details how long I hold data for and how I dispose of it when it no longer needs to be held.
Your Rights
The General Data Protection Regulation gives you specific rights around your personal data. For example, you have to be informed about the information I hold and what I use it for, you can ask for a copy of the personal information I hold about you, you can ask me to correct any inaccuracies with the personal data I hold, you can ask me to stop sending you direct mail, or emails, or in some circumstances ask me to stop processing your details.
Finally, if I do something irregular or improper with your personal data you can seek compensation for any distress you are caused or loss you have incurred. You can find out more information from the ICO’s website and this is the organisation that you can complain to if you are unhappy with how I dealt with you.
Accessing & Correcting Your Information
You may request access to, correction of, or a copy of your information by contacting me in writing at my registered address.
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Updated: 01/11/2022
Elizabeth Gallagher
Elizabeth Gallagher specialises in personal injury law and related areas.
She is an experienced and confident advocate, who represents both claimants and defendants at trial and in the full range of interim hearings (including applications and costs and case managements hearings). She also has a busy paperwork practice, advising on liability, quantum, evidence and procedure, as well as drafting pleadings and schedules of loss.
Elizabeth prides herself on her personable manner and her ability to give clear, client-focused advice. She is adept at representing clients who require additional support and guidance for whatever reason, including individuals with literacy difficulties and children/young people.
She is familiar with dealing with sensitive, high-profile matters, having been instructed in the Hillsborough Victims Litigation and being currently instructed on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Elizabeth is the Assistant Editor of the TGC Personal Injury newsletter. In 2022, she was appointed a Deputy District Judge on the South Eastern Circuit.
Elizabeth accepts instructions on behalf of both claimants and defendants. She has experience encompassing a wide range of areas of personal injury law, including employers’ liability; occupiers’ liability; highway accidents; road traffic accidents; product liability; landlord’s liability for defective premises and travel claims. She also has experience of group litigation.
Elizabeth is able to advise on all aspects of litigation – including limitation, liability, evidence and quantum, either at conference or in writing. Her preference, where possible, is to be instructed early in the proceedings. She is also appears in applications involving procedural issues such as relief from sanctions, costs arguments and limitation.
She is regularly instructed in multi-track cases and is confident dealing with expert medical evidence across a range of fields. She is experienced at dealing with (amongst others) serious orthopaedic injuries including amputations, burn injuries and serious scarring, long-term psychiatric disorders and pain conditions.
She is willing to accept instructions on a conditional fee basis in appropriate cases. She is also willing to travel for in-person conferences with clients.
Elizabeth has extensive trial experience in relation to personal injury claims involving issues of causation (including low velocity impact claims), occupancy, induced and/or staged road traffic collisions. She also has experience of cases involving exaggerated or fabricated injuries using surveillance and social media evidence.
She also routinely advises clients in conference in relation to allegations of fraud made by or against them. She understands the significance of findings of fundamental dishonesty and/or under Section 57 to both claimants and defendants, and can be relied upon to give robust and realistic advice. When representing claimants, she always takes care to explain the issues in terms that can be easily understood by non-lawyers.
Elizabeth is currently instructed on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on behalf of Rydon Maintenance Limited.
Her experience in this field (for example, in relation to inquests arising out of road traffic accidents) also dovetails with her personal injury practice and she able to advise on any connected civil proceedings which may arise following a death.
She is experienced in dealing with matters that involve 1000s of pages of documentary evidence and a detailed chronology.
Elizabeth regularly represents claimants and defendants at costs and case management conferences (CCMC). She can advise on costs budgeting prior to the CCMC where that would be of assistance.
She is also able to advise in conference or in writing on issues arising out of QOCS, Part 36, non-party costs orders and the application of the fixed costs regime.
She accepts instructions for detailed assessments of inter-partes costs. She also has experience of solicitor/client disputes and proceedings for wasted costs orders against legal representatives.
Elizabeth is experienced with health and safety issues arising out of her personal injury practice, including claims on construction sites and in other employment settings, and her work on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Elizabeth has a broad insurance practice and is regularly instructed on behalf of national insurance companies as well as a number of international insurers. She has particular experience of issues arising from misrepresentation and non-disclosure in the context of motor insurance, and indemnity disputes in relation to the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Article 75 of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau’s Articles of Association.
Keith Morton KC, Tim Sharpe, Robert Riddell and Elizabeth Gallagher are instructed by the Head of Legal Services at South Yorkshire Police in connection with the Group Litigation Order (“GLO”) granted in November 2016. The GLO issues include consideration of...
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Temple Garden Chambers congratulates Elizabeth Gallagher on her appointment by the Lord Chief Justice as a Deputy District Judge on the South Eastern Circuit.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the TGC Personal Injury newsletter.
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Please see link below to the 5th edition of the the TGC Costs Newsletter.
Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit (2022)
Thank you for choosing to instruct me in your case. I will need to collect and hold your personal information in order to represent you. I will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. I will do all that I reasonably can to ensure I do not infringe your rights or undermine your trust. This Privacy Notice describes the information I collect about you, how it is used and shared, and your rights regarding it.
Data Controller
I am registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller for the personal data that I hold and process as a barrister. My registered address is Temple Garden Chambers, 1 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London, EC4Y 9DA and my registration number is ZA109009.
Data Collection
All of the information that I hold about you is provided to me or gathered solely in the course of and for the purposes of your case, proceedings or any related matter.
Lawful Basis For Processing Your Information
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires all organisations that process personal data to have a Lawful Basis for doing so. The Lawful Bases identified in the GDPR are:
Examples Of Legitimate Interests
My Lawful Basis is Legitimate Interest namely the provision of professional services to you and the proper exercise of my professional obligations and responsibilities. My Lawful Bases may also include: consent and/or performance of a contract with you or steps to enter a contract with you and/or compliance with a legal obligation. In so far as I process sensitive personal data that is necessary in relation to legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal advice and/or otherwise for establishing, exercising or defending legal rights and/or for administering justice.
I Use Your Information To
I do not use automated decision-making in the processing of your personal data.
I collect and process both personal data and special categories of personal data as defined in the GDPR. This includes:
I May Share Your Personal Data With:
Transfers To Third Countries & International Organisations
I do not transfer any personal data to third countries or international organisations.
Retention
I retain your personal data while you remain a client and for as long as in necessary for me to meet my legal and professional obligations. My Retention and Disposal Policy (copy available on request) details how long I hold data for and how I dispose of it when it no longer needs to be held.
Your Rights
The General Data Protection Regulation gives you specific rights around your personal data. For example, you have to be informed about the information I hold and what I use it for, you can ask for a copy of the personal information I hold about you, you can ask me to correct any inaccuracies with the personal data I hold, you can ask me to stop sending you direct mail, or emails, or in some circumstances ask me to stop processing your details.
Finally, if I do something irregular or improper with your personal data you can seek compensation for any distress you are caused or loss you have incurred. You can find out more information from the ICO’s website and this is the organisation that you can complain to if you are unhappy with how I dealt with you.
Accessing & Correcting Your Information
You may request access to, correction of, or a copy of your information by contacting me in writing at my registered address.
Marketing Opt-Outs
You may opt out of receiving emails and other messages from my Chambers by following the instructions in those messages.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. The Chambers website use cookies to:
I May Update My Privacy Notice
When I make significant changes, I will publish the updated notice on my website profile.
Updated: 01/11/2022
