Kate is a civil practitioner undertaking a range of clinical negligence, personal injury and employment work.
Clinical Negligence
Kate has considerable experience across a broad range of civil cases. Her particular interest is in clinical negligence. She has been instructed in a number of cases including those arising from obstetric and orthopaedic injuries.
Kate also acts for bereaved families at inquests. Recently she has been involved in inquests which have raised a range of alleged failings by GPs and trusts, including delayed diagnosis of diabetes, negligent nursing care, a failed appendicectomy and delayed delivery of a second twin.
Kate has also acted pro bono at inquests (instructed by AvMA) for the family of a young man suffering from schizophrenia who jumped from a tower block and for family whose elderly father had received sub-standard care in hospital.
Personal Injury
In addition to her clinical negligence work Kate is also instructed in a full range of fast-track and multi-track personal injury cases, including those arising out of historic sexual abuse, road traffic accidents, workplace accidents and failures to maintain the highway. She advises on breach of duty, causation and quantum and her practice ranges from those cases that are relatively straightforward to ones that are complex and high-value.
Employment
Kate is a highly experienced advocate who regularly appears in employment tribunals at all stages of proceedings. Kate has experience of a wide range of employment disputes including breach of restrictive covenants, unfair and wrongful dismissal, redundancy, TUPE, complaints where the Working Time Regulations are engaged, sex, disability and race discrimination.
Public and Regulatory
In 2010 Kate was instructed by the Treasury Solicitor as part of a team of junior barristers for the Crown in cases arising out of the detention and alleged torture of British residents and nationals in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. (Al-Rawi and others v The Security Service and others ) She therefore has experience of the dealing with the issues that arise in large-scale, multi-defendant disclosure exercises including the application of the ECHR, the Data Protection Act and the treatment of legally privileged material.
As a former highly experienced criminal junior Kate is also experienced in advising on matters of disclosure, including between the criminal and civil courts as well as legal professional privilege.
Contact Kate Lumbers
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk