Jim Duffy represents parents of baby who died following NHS 111 error - Dec 2023
Personal Injury
Jim has an established practice in personal injury acting on behalf of claimants and defendants, including in abuse claims. He was led by Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC, appearing for the appellant children in CN & GN v. Poole Borough Council. The Supreme Court considered whether and in what circumstances local authorities might owe a duty at common law to children at risk of harm.
He has been instructed in a number of cases involving E-Coli 0157 and has defended several claims brought by members of fitness gyms. He has also acted for insurers and injured persons in claims arising from road traffic accidents and represented claimants and defendants in numerous occupiers’ liability claims.
He also produces practice notes on personal injury law for LexisNexis PSL.
Selected Cases
- Acted for man who sustained a brain injury after falling down a set of stairs at a bar. Successfully resisted application to withdraw a pre-action admission.
- Secured withdrawal of admission as to where an accident had taken place in case concerning an accident in a transit zone at a ferry port.
- Represented family in civil damages claim under HRA against police.
- CN & GN v Poole BC[2019] UKSC 25: UK Supreme Court considered the extent to which local authorities and their employees owe a common law duty to protect children from harm caused by third parties. Led by Lizanne Gumbel KC.
- Sexual abuse by a secondary school teacher upon a pupil.
- Sexual assault of a work experience student by a company employee.
- A local authority’s failure to intervene in a case involving the repeated sexual abuse of children within a family home.
- Abuse by a class teacher upon a primary school pupil.
Marwo Kassim: Jim Duffy represents family of epileptic woman who fell from balcony - Nov 2023
A Coroner has criticised a local authority and a housing association for causing the death of a vulnerable woman who fell from her balcony following an epileptic seizure. Marwo Kassim, 39, was...
Jim Duffy represents family of baby who died after failure to provide Vitamin K - Oct 2023
A baby who was not given vitamin K at birth died as a result of "a gross failure in medical care amounting to neglect", a coroner has found. Jim Duffy represented the parents of William Moris-Patto...
Caerdav v. HMRC: Jim Duffy successfully defends legitimate expectation appeal - Aug 2023
Introduction The Upper Tribunal (Rajah J and Judge Rupert Jones) has issued its judgment in the case of Caerdav v HMRC, rejecting a aviation repair and maintenance company’s appeal against a...
Gosport scandal: High Court orders fresh inquests into hospital deaths - Jun 2023
A Divisional Court (Lady Justice Whipple and Mr Justice Holgate) has ordered that fresh inquests must be held into the deaths of three elderly patients who died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in...
Law Pod UK Ep. 181: The Bill of Rights Bill is Back - Mar 2023
Jim Duffy is joined by Professor Jim Murdoch of the University of Glasgow, Angus McCullough KC from 1 Crown Office Row, and Shameem Ahmad from the Public Law Project, to talk small boats and big...
Law Pod UK Ep. 170: Justice from the Chaos of Conflict, with Aonghus Kelly - Oct 2022
Jim Duffy is joined by Aonghus Kelly as he travels to Kyiv to assist Ukraine in building mechanisms to ensure a future reckoning for the war crimes of today. Law Pod UK is available...
Law Pod UK is back – and with new presenters! - Sep 2022
This year Law Pod UK celebrates its fifth birthday. In 2017 we were amongst the very first to roll out a specialised series of podcasts about the law in the United Kingdom. And after a brief hiatus...
Congratulations to our four members appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel - Aug 2022
Congratulations to Leanne Woods and Natasha Barnes on their promotions on the Attorney General's A Panel of Counsel, effective from 1st September. We are also delighted to announce that Jim Duffy has...
A New Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights Bill Explained Webinar - Jul 2022
In a timely webinar, a panel of 1COR practitioners, Alasdair Henderson, Jim Duffy and Darragh Coffey, chaired by Rajkiran Barhey, will discuss the government’s recently published draft Bill of...
Stephen Holden prison death: Jim Duffy represents Ministry of Justice - Jun 2022
A jury at Ipswich Coroner’s Court has concluded that a prisoner died from natural causes, having refused to take medication prescribed to manage his serious heart conditions. On Christmas morning...
Plane Meaning: EU customs special procedures scrutinised in aviation company’s appeal - May 2022
The First-tier Tribunal has dismissed an appeal brought by a Welsh aviation company against HMRC’s assessment that it owed some £331,000 in customs duty and VAT. Jim Duffy represented HMRC,...
Psychiatric patient choking death contributed to by neglect: Jim Duffy appears for son of Rita Britten - May 2022
A jury at Bradford Coroners’ Court has concluded that neglect contributed to the death of a 54 year-old woman who died after choking on an apple. Rita Britten, who suffered from schizophrenia, was...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Spring 2021 – Issue 9 - Jul 2021
Welcome to the ninth issue of the Quarterly Medical Law Review, brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row. Download the Spring 2021 newsletter here: 1COR Quarterly Medical Law...
Sarabjit Singh QC and Jim Duffy appear in key Supreme Court immigration case - May 2021
Sarabjit Singh QC and Jim Duffy are due to appear on behalf of the Home Secretary later today in a long-awaited appeal relating to the bail powers of immigration tribunals. SM (Rwanda) relates to a...
Law Pod UK Ep. 136: Essential Inquest Law Updates - Feb 2021
The last 12 months have provided fertile ground for many significant judgments concerning inquest law. In Episode 136, Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Rachel Marcus and Jim Duffy about the developments...
Jim Duffy to speak at Association of Breast Surgery Webinar - Oct 2020
Jim Duffy joins a panel of speakers at the Association of Breast Surgery’s (ABS) interactive webinar on ‘New medical devices: "first do no harm."’ The event will examine the Cumberlege report,...
Successful defence of GP surgery in wrongful birth claim - Oct 2020
Jim Duffy, instructed by Stephen Hooper of Hempsons, successfully defended a GP surgery in a claim brought by a former patient alleging a failure provide her with contraception, resulting in an...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Spring 2020 – Issue 5 - May 2020
Welcome to the fifth issue of the Quarterly Medical Law Review, brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row. In this packed edition you will find: Download the Spring 2020 newsletter...
Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar Revisited in Leeds - Feb 2020
Join us for an afternoon debating the scope of duty and causation in medical claims based on Chester v Afshar [2005] 1 AC 134, which have come to the fore in recent cases (which we have also acted in)...
Jim Duffy represents family of Natasha Wild - Dec 2019
Jim Duffy has represented the family of Natasha Wild at the 8-day inquest into the 23 year-old's death in November 2016. Natasha was stabbed by her boyfriend, Lloyd Brackenbury, who suffered from...
1COR Brighton’s annual Ghulam Hussain Volleyball Cup is here! - Jul 2019
Each year, 1COR Brighton raise money for the Rockinghorse Appeal and remember fellow barrister Ghulam Hussain. This hugely popular event is going from strength to strength in its 9th year with 15...
Protecting children from harm: CN & GN v Poole Borough Council - Jun 2019
Protecting children from harm: Supreme Court hands down key decision on tort of negligence. In an important decision on the liability of social welfare services and public authorities more generally,...
Jim Duffy and Jo Moore appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown - Jan 2019
1 Crown Office Row is delighted to announce that Jim Duffy and Jo Moore have been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel). Their appointment will be effective from 1st March 2019. ...
Jim Duffy in medical ‘neglect’ inquest - Nov 2018
Jim Duffy has appeared for the family of Joyce Patterson at her inquest. Mrs Patterson died on 8 November 2017 having being struck by a train shortly after absconding from St Helier Hospital in...
Jim Duffy appears in judicial review over murder conviction - Oct 2018
Jim Duffy, led by Felicity Gerry QC of Carmelite Chambers, has appeared before a Divisional Court challenging a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) not to refer the case of Anthony...
Seven 1COR members in landmark Supreme Court case - Jul 2018
The Supreme Court will today begin hearing the appeal in CN & GN v Poole Borough Council. The case will consider the extent to which local authorities owe a common law duty to protect from harm...
Jim Duffy writes about his experiences at the Paris Bar for Counsel Magazine - May 2018
In 2016 Jim Duffy dusted off his French legal dictionary and headed to Paris as part of the London-Paris Bar Exchange. You can read more about "one of the most memorable experiences of [his] career"...
Jim Duffy in Subject Access Request win for GP - Feb 2018
Jim Duffy has successfully defended a GP who refused to comply with a Subject Access Request made by a father in respect of his children’s medical records. A Child Protection Plan was in place...
Gideon Barth, Jim Duffy, Lizanne Gumbel QC and Mark Wainwright running the London and Brighton Marathons - Jan 2018
Training has already begun for our members running the Marathon this year. We couldn’t be prouder of them undertaking this physical challenge in aid of such good causes and look forward to cheering...
Law Pod UK Ep. 17: Prospects for the Infected Blood Inquiry - Nov 2017
Theresa May has announced a statutory inquiry into how contaminated blood transfusions infected thousands of people with hepatitis C and HIV, now known in 2019 as the 'Infected Blood Inquiry'....
Clinical negligence and the duty to disclose: full house of 1COR members in high profile Court of Appeal case - Jun 2017
Five members of Chambers appeared before the Court of Appeal in ABC v St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and others. The Appellant, known as ABC, appealed against the strike out of her...
Jim Duffy acts for family in suicide case where Adequate and Appropriate precautions not taken - Apr 2017
An inquest jury has concluded that a young father "was not properly and adequately assessed and reviewed" and that "adequate and appropriate precautions were not taken to manage" his risk of suicide....
Jim Duffy in Successful Unfair Dismissal Claim - Mar 2017
The Employment Tribunal in Cardiff has given judgment in the case of Eirian Morris v Carmarthenshire County Council. Mr Morris was dismissed from his role as Ski Centre Coordinator at Pembrey Country...
UK Human Rights Blog is pick of best legal bloggers by The Times - Feb 2017
1 Crown Office Row's UK Human Rights Blog and Adam Wagner have been featured in The Times today in a feature about the rise of legal blogging. Jonathan Ames has written a feature in The Times...
Jim Duffy in TUPE unfair dismissal win - Oct 2015
Jim Duffy has successfully represented three nursery workers dismissed last year when the local government contract they were working under was awarded to a new contractor. Jim, instructed by...
We send a team to annual charity beach volleyball tournament organised by our Brighton Chambers - Jul 2015
Our Brighton Chambers hosted their annual beach volleyball tournament on 3 July and, for the first time, we sent a team from London to participate. We were not last but were some way off winning! ...
Jim Duffy has returned to full-time practice after a year spent in the Supreme Court - Oct 2014
Jim Duffy has returned to full-time practice following a year as Judicial Assistant to Lord Reed and Lord Hodge at the UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is currently...
1COR are delighted to announce that Lois Williams and Jim Duffy have accepted our offer of tenancy - Sep 2013
