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Jonathan de Rohan
Call: 1989
Mediator
Expertise
Insurance & Reinsurance Personal Injury Professional Negligence Property Damage
Qualifications
Inns of Court School of Law Bar Finals
University of Westminster Dip. Law
University of Reading BA (Econ) Hons
Harrow School
Trained Mediator by Regent's College
Appointments
Panel member Bar Disciplinary Tribunal
Practice Profile
Jonathan has a broad-ranging common law and insurance practice including professional negligence, property damage and complex and/or high-value personal injury claims. Has a particular interest in sporting and dangerous pursuits, regularly appearing for the defendant in parachuting and gliding accident including fatal cases. He has acted in civil actions (with significant personal injury components) against the police. His extensive background in contract & commercial, real property and landlord & tenant law brings additional expertise to bear on property damage claims and to professional negligence actions involving conveyancing and construction professionals. Considerable experience of large scale, complex, document-heavy litigation, in particular as successful junior in Re: Landhurst Leasing (see citation below) a directors’ disqualification case heard over 4 weeks in the Chancery Division. Jonathan has found that his early years of tenancy spent prosecuting and defending in the Crown & Magistrates’ Court has given his advantage in HSE work and Inquests.
He regularly advises personal injury, buildings and other insurers on a broad range of contractual issues including coverage and subrogation.
Jonathan has a busy claimant and defendant practice covering the whole spectrum of liability and quantum disputes, in particular employers’ liability, industrial disease, occupiers’ and public liability, product liability, RTAs and the MIB and Animals Act cases. He has an interest in sporting and dangerous pursuits, regularly advising in football, rugby and cricket cases and he often acts for the defendant in parachuting and gliding accidents including catastrophic and fatal cases. Experienced trial and interlocutory advocate in most civil and criminal courts and tribunals including inquests. Considerable experience of settling and arguing complex and high-value schedules and counter schedules of loss and of cross-examining experts in many different fields. In addition he has extensive common law experience in professional negligence, insurance and nuisance claims.
He regularly advises, pleads and appears in property damage and nuisance claims in particular fire, flood and tree roots. His extensive background in real property and landlord & tenant law brings additional expertise to bear on property damage claims.
Notable Cases
Purbrick v London Borough of Hackney [2004] 1 P&CR 34,
Ch.D Re: Landhurst Leasing [1999] BCLC 286, Ch.D
Smith v Donelon & Co. Ltd (1998) LTL 95000042, CA
Cuthbert v Bannister (1998) LTL 8400195, CA
Kelsey Housing Association v King [1995] 28 HLR 270, CA
Additional Information
Affiliations:
- Personal Injury Bar Association
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
- Bar Sports Law Group
- Anglo Australasian Lawyers’ Society
Recent Seminars and Publications:
- Sports and Dangerous Activities, November 2007
- The Impact of the Compensation Act 2006, March 2007
- Personal Injury Update, New Law Journal, September 2007
Outside interests:
- Family life. M.C.C and M.C.G Associate Member. Watching all sports, playing some. Travel, food and wine.
