Gavin Reese

Practice Areas

A specialist in General Liability, Product Liability and Health & Safety, Partner Gavin Reese has been advising insurers and corporate clients for over 30 years. He heads up RPC's Regulatory team.

Gavin advises regularly on policy coverage and deals with a broad range of liability and product claims, including stress and catastrophic injury claims.

He regularly advises companies and individuals facing Health & Safety investigations and prosecutions, often following a major event and is frequently instructed in connection with sensitive cases involving fatalities. Gavin has significant experience acting on issues relating to Corporate/Gross Negligence Manslaughter as well as the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. He has represented clients at interviews under caution and has advised on investigations and prosecutions by the Health & Safety Executive, Police, Environment Agency, and local authorities.

The product side of his practice includes advice on the Consumer Protection Act 1987, European regulation, and product liability cases including those involving machinery, food, consumer and safety products.

Career

Articled Edward Fail Neale & Co/Sharpe Pritchard; qualified 1985; assistant Sharpe Pritchard 1985-88; assistant Reynolds Porter Chamberlain 1988-95; partner: 1995.

Professional Memberships

Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers

Health and Safety Lawyers' Association

UK Environmental Law Association

Publications

Contributing author to the chapters on Employers' Liability in Hogarth's Insurance Law for the Construction Industry.

Work Highlights

Acting on the 2011 M5 motorway Disaster.

Acting in Grenfell Tower.

Providing ongoing advice for a well-known online platform.