Product Liability

Representative cases

• VW NOx Diesel Emissions litigation

  Group action arising from noxious car emissions

• DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal hip litigation [2018] EWHC 1208 (QB)

  DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal hip litigation [2018] EWHC 1208 (QB)

  In a decision that will be very influential for other metal on metal claims, on 21 May 2018 judgment was given in favour of the defendant DePuy International Limited on preliminary issues in the DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal group litigation.

• Seroxat Group Litigation

  Instructed by GlaxoSmithKline in pharmaceutical claims in the Seroxat Group Litigation

• Dring (on behalf of The Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK) -V- Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd [2020] EWHC 1873 (QB)

  The Cape v Dring litigation concerns an attempt by a non-party to obtain copies of the trial bundle used during a six-week asbestos trial involving Cape which settled before judgment in early 2017. At first instance the Master granted the non-party permission to have copies of all documents, including the trial bundle of 5000 pages of disclosure, referred to at the trial. The Supreme Court confirmed in July 2019 that the non-party was entitled to written submissions, witness statements and expert reports under the inherent jurisdiction of the court, but remitted the question of what, if any, documents in the trial bundle the non-party should obtain to the original trial judge. On 16 July 2020 Picken J considered that question and held that Mr Dring was not entitled to receive any other documents. Details here