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Dominic Adamson KC and Harriet Gilchrist secure acquittals in Fire Safety Trial

Dominic Adamson KC, leading Harriet Gilchrist, instructed by Mark London, Kathryn Kligerman and Yaasica Hamilton-Haye at Devonshires represented two corporate defendants in a fire safety prosecution relating to a fire which resulted in the near total destruction of an ‘Extra…

08/05/2025
News
Dominic Adamson KC and Harriet Gilchrist secure acquittals in Fire Safety Trial

Grenfell Tower Inquiry – Final Report Published Today

The final report on the Grenfell disaster has been published this morning, six years after the inquiry began hearing evidence about what led to the deaths of 72 people in a fire in 2017. Several members of Chambers have been…

04/09/2024
News, Publications

Dominic Adamson KC secures the acquittal of two organisations charged with breaches of s.3 of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974

Dominic Adamson KC, instructed by and working with Janine Holbrook and Grace Davies of Kennedys, secured acquittals of two organisations, a parent and a subsidiary, charged with breaches of s.3 of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974…

07/03/2024
News

Inquest concludes PS Matt Ratana was unlawfully killed

Dominic Adamson KC of Temple Garden Chambers, leading Lois Norris of No5 Chambers, and instructed by Patrick Maguire, Hollie Muckley and Kate Daflon of HCC solicitors acted on behalf of Su Bushby in the inquest into the death of her…

15/11/2023
News

Coroner finds that a stab victim was unlawfully killed and that there were causative failures by an NHS Trust

Dominic Adamson KC, instructed by Patrick Maguire and Kate Daflon of HCC Solicitors, acted on behalf of the wider family of Lesley Ann Spearing who had suffered fatal injuries when she was stabbed by her son (who was separately represented). …

18/04/2023
News

Plymouth Shooting Inquests – Prevention of Future Deaths reports issued to 48 recipients, including the Home Secretary, all Chief Constables in England & Wales, and the Lord Chief Justice

Senior Coroner Ian Arrow has issued five thematic Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports to a total of 48 recipients, following the conclusion of the inquests into the Plymouth mass shooting last month. Dominic Adamson KC and Juliet Wells represented…

10/03/2023
News

Minister for Policing gives statement to Parliament about Plymouth Inquests

The Minister for Policing, Chris Philip MP, has given a statement to Parliament in the wake of the jury’s conclusions in the inquests into the mass shooting in Plymouth in August 2021. On Monday the jury found that the victims’…

22/02/2023
News

Inquests into mass shooting in Plymouth conclude – jury find “catastrophic failings” in the national and local gun licensing system

On 12 August 2021, gunman Jake Davison killed his mother and four members of the public, including a three-year-old child, in one of the worst mass shootings in British history. He used a shotgun which was licensed to him by…

21/02/2023
News

Six-week inquests into the mass shooting in Keyham, Plymouth begin

The inquests arising from the mass shooting in Keyham, Plymouth begin today in front of Senior Coroner Ian Arrow. Dominic Adamson KC and Juliet Wells represent the families of the members of the public killed, instructed by Patrick Maguire and…

17/01/2023
News

Inquests following fatal bug outbreak at Royal Papworth Hospital conclude

The inquests into two deaths following an outbreak of a waterborne pathogen at a world-leading transplant centre concluded today. The deaths, at the newly-opened Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, followed infection by a form of bacteria previously unknown to have…

11/11/2022
News

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