Gareth Shires
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Group Litigation
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About
Provided by Gareth Shires
Practice Areas
Gareth has significant group litigation experience and handles all manner of claims, including consumer, environmental, data privacy and medical product actions, and has experience of cross-border and foreign law issues. He also maintains a broad commercial practice and handles clinical negligence matters.
Previous group litigation instructions include: the VW NOx Emissions Litigation; the British Airways Data Event Litigation, group litigation against Ticketmaster and Equifax, and JJML SUI and POP Products Litigation.
Current instructions include:
Pan-NOx Emissions Litigation, representing various claimant groups in claims against, among others, Mercedes, Ford, Peugeot and Renault.
Essure Medical Product Litigation, representing women affected by the use of the Essure contraceptive device.
Mass data breach claims against a number of household names.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Gareth Shires is a distinguished practitioner in group litigation thanks to his work in key cases, including data protection and vehicle emissions claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Gareth works fantastically hard and he is very clever and user-friendly. He provides really good insight on group actions."
"He is the guru on emissions and has done a huge amount to bring those cases forward. Nobody is better informed than he is on emissions."
"Gareth is just brilliant. He is involved in more pieces of group litigation than any other barrister I know."
"Gareth works fantastically hard and he is very clever and user-friendly. He provides really good insight on group actions."
"He is the guru on emissions and has done a huge amount to bring those cases forward. Nobody is better informed than he is on emissions."
"Gareth is just brilliant. He is involved in more pieces of group litigation than any other barrister I know."