Michael Rawlinson KC

Practice Areas

Personal Injury, Disease Litigation, Aviation and Inquests. Significant reported cases include:

Acting for c. 100 firefighters within the ‘Grenfell Tower’ litigation.

Lipton v City Flyer Ltd [2021] EWCA CIV 454 – compensation for delayed flights pursuant to EU Reg 261. Appeared for appellants: first appellate judgment given in respect of retained EU law following UK withdrawal. The Respondents sought and have obtained permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Mather v MOD [2021] EWHC 811 (QB) – claim that exposure to organic solvents caused MS. Settled at a high proportion of the pleaded case after completion of evidence.

The Queen (on the application of Gerard Joseph Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent v Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin) – first Judgment to consider the applicability of ECHR Art 2 to deaths in hospital following the ECtHR decision of Lopes Sousa Fernandes v Portugal.

Whiting v Keolis [2018] EWCA Civ 4 - nature of duty owed to intoxicated passengers in rail stations by train operators;

Bussey v Anglia Heating [2018] EWCA.l Civ 243; [2018] 3 All E.R. 354; [2018] P.I.Q.R. P11; (Clarification of the law on breach/foreseeability in mesothelioma cases;

The “Nimrod” and “Snatch Land Rover” inquests: both large losses-of-life events in Afghanistan. I acted for the families in both.;

Fairchild v Glenhaven “Fairchild” – seminal case on the law of causation in the context of mesothelioma;

Sowden v Lodge;

Grieves v Everard ('The Pleural Plaques ‘test litigation');

Thompson & Rice v Secretary of State for the Department of Trade & Industry;

Career

University: Manchester LLB (Harry Street Tort Prize, Lawson Prize and Dauntsey Scholarship). Inner Temple (Major scholarship). Called in 1991 and took silk in 2009

Professional Memberships

Northern Circuit Medical Law Association. PIBA.