Jeremy Haughty
Overview
Call 1989 Lincolns Inn
Jeremy is an experienced practitioner with a busy general common law practice covering a broad range of disciplines with specialisms in the following areas:
- Personal injury and clinical negligence
- General commercial litigation
- Contentious probate
- Commercial and Residential Property including landlord and Tenant
Jeremy accepts a broad range of other general civil litigation instructions, including General Chancery, Insolvency, Commercial work and Building disputes, and regularly accepts instructions in a wide range of disputes and non-contentious matters under the public access scheme, from members of the public and professionals.
Expertise
Jeremy has extensive experience representing tenants and landlords in possession claims and other disputes, including representation of vulnerable tenants in social housing claims.
Other property work includes commercial property disputes, actions over easements, boundary disputes, breach of repairing covenant, proprietary estoppel claims, adverse possession claims, actions against trespassers etc.”
GENERAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTUAL DISPUTES
Jeremy has long experience of acting in a wide variety of business disputes, involving small businesses, large corporations and partnerships.
Some examples of recent work in this area include:
- Advisory work on a contractual dispute between two very large manufacturers of pet food, which focused on the issues of an implied term as to reasonable notice of termination and an implied term of good faith.
- Advised the largest supplier of ladies’ wear to the former retail chain Peacocks on the property rights in various large shipments which were in transit on the high seas at the point Peacocks went into Administration.
- Successfully acted for the seller of a Post Office franchise in London who sought to recover the purchase price of his business from a purchaser whose defence was misrepresentation by the seller.
Jeremy works for both claimants and defendants, in a range of PI and Clinical Negligence work, including severe brain injury cases and fatal accident cases, receiving instructions from both large national insurers and high street firms alike.
Some examples of recent and ongoing cases:
- Successfully sued a local authority on behalf of a former teacher who claimed substantial damages in respect of a psychiatric injury arising from stress at work.
- Obtained substantial damages for a female artist who, as a result of severe brain trauma along with multiple orthopedic injuries, was unable to paint or even to visualise her own work or the work of other artists.
- Successfully pursued a complex claim against an NHS Trust and the Ambulance Service on behalf of the estate of a patient, who died as a result of delay in being transferred to the correct hospital.
- Claimed and ultimately successfully negotiated substantial damages for a tunneling surveyor who suffered acute long term disabling symptoms as a result of hydrocarbon poisoning whilst working in a tunnel shaft on a large civil engineering project.
- Successfully defended a dairy in an action by a claimant alleging she consumed milk produced by the dairy, which was contaminated by campylobacter.
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