We provide a wide range of advocacy and advisory services in the UK and internationally. We pride ourselves on our approachable and friendly outlook and our ability to build strong relationships with clients. Our barristers have received over 40 individual rankings covering 15 practice areas across the legal directories, including in Civil Fraud, Commercial Litigation, Insolvency and Travel amongst others. We are supported by a highly experienced, friendly and responsive practice management team, headed by James Donovan.
Dan Saxby has a substantial common law practice, with a particular speciality in both personal injury and travel law, fields in which he has long been recognised as a leading junior.
He also has an extensive inquest practice and is regularly instructed in such matters, including those of the highest profile and sensitivity.
Dan is particularly noted in the directories for his thorough and meticulous approach, and for the excellence of his advocacy. He is regularly instructed in complex and high value matters in each of his specialist areas, often litigating against silks.
Dan has a wide-ranging and substantial personal injury practice. He has been instructed in numerous high value and complex matters, including (but not limited to) those involving traumatic brain injury, severe and catastrophic loss, including paraplegia, and industrial disease. He also has experience of and a particular interest in claims arising from abuse, including historic abuse.
Dan has a very extensive travel law practice and accepts instructions in all areas in the field, including those arising from the Package Travel Regulations, accidents and illnesses occurring during the course of air travel, and aboard cruise ships. Dan also regularly advises upon and acts in claims where jurisdiction is in issue.
Dan has acted for almost all major tour operators and airlines and has a wealth of litigation experience in this respect, including (but not limited to):
Titshall v. Qwerty Travel [2011] EWCA Civ 1569
The Court of Appeal discussed the correct approach to determining whether a customer had been sold a “package” within the meaning of the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 reg.2(1). In determining whether components were sold or offered for sale at an inclusive price, it was necessary to answer the factual question of whether the services were being sold or offered for sale as components of a combination, or whether they were being sold or offered for sale separately, but at the same time.
Dan has a significant inquest practice and has acted in various high profile and sensitive matters.
Such instructions include appearing on behalf of:
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