Barry Cotter QC
Qualifications: LLB (University College, London), 1983
Recorder (Crown and County Court) ( 2002)
Called: 1985
Product Liability
Barry acts for claimants and defendants in product liability cases (including multi-party actions) both in the UK and abroad. He has extensive experience within this area of the law including regulatory compliance, product recalls, trade description and labelling issues, personal injury claims and injunctive claims. His practice covers cross-border litigation and he alsadvises on wider policy issues tmanage product liability risks.
Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence
Barry specialises in all aspects of personal injury work. He advises clients on catastrophic and fatal injury claims, head and spinal injury cases, occupational accidents and diseases (he is the main editor of Munkman on Employer's Liability). He advises on multi-party actions.
Barry advises claimants on high value clinical negligence claims (including cerebral palsy) and claims by former health trusts employees.
Health & Safety
Barry's expertise covers a wide range of health and safety law, particularly workplace fatalities and accidents. He has been involved in several major HSE prosecutions and has extensive experience of public inquiries and high profile inquests.
Environment
Barry has advised claimants and companies on environmental matters and is currently retained in this country's largest multi-party action arising out of environmental nuisance.
Health & Safety
- Clapham Junction Accident Inquiry 1989
- Severn Tunnel Inquiry 1993
- Cowden Train Crash Inquiry 1995
- Southall Train Crash Inquiry 1999
- Ladbroke Grove Inquiry 2000
Public Inquiries
- Lord Justice Woolf's Inquiry intPrison Disturbances ("The Strangeways Inquiry") 1990
- The Ashworth Hospital Inquiry (Sir L. Blom-Cooper QC) 1991
- Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry 1998
- Mubarek Inquiry 2004/5
Inquests include
- The Death of Mr Kenneth Severin ( restraint related death at Belmarsh Prison )
- The Death of Mr Stevens ( see R-v- HM Coroner For Exeter and East Devon ex parte Palmer)
- The Death of Dr Harold Shipman [2005]