Profile

David is an associate - FCILEX within the specialist liability team, liability defence division.

He has extensive experience acting for local authorities, police forces and corporate bodies in relation to a wide range of specialist liability claims, including data breach, failure to remove, abuse & death in care matters. David has focussed on specialist data breach & Subject Access Request claims, including relating to the sharing of social care records in high-risk situations, loss of employee personnel files, alleged failure to retain CCTV & complex allegations relating to inappropriate retention of police criminal records.

David graduated from the University of Hull in 2005 with a degree in Law. He then completed the LPC course at the College of Law in Guildford.

Qualifications:

  • FCILEX qualified in England and Wales in 2013

Work highlights

  • Achieved discontinuance in a claim where it was alleged that CCTV of the Claimant’s visit to the Defendant’s premises was inappropriately shared
  • Achieved modest settlement, in situation where social care records were emailed to the incorrect recipient
  • Achieved discontinuance in a claim in which it was alleged that the Claimant’s identity as an informant was wrongly shared with the accused
  • Achieved discontinuance in a claim where the local authority wrongly shared the Claimant’s Covid0-19 status
  • Achieved a modest settlement, in a case where the Claimant’s photograph was used on the local authority’s website, without her permission
  • Achieved discontinuance of a claim, relating to the inappropriate relationship between the vulnerable Claimant & her chiropractor