Julian Horne
Call 1998 (Middle Temple)
Qualifications BA (Oxon), BCL (Oxon).
Professional Memberships Personal Injury Bar Association and the Technology and Construction Bar Association
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Areas of Practice
Julian practiced for seven years from Crown Office Chambers in London (where he remains a door tenant) before moving to St John’s in 2005. His practice covers both personal injury and commercial law, from the county courts to the Court of Appeal.
Personal Injury
Julian is an experienced personal injury practitioner with expertise across the field. He acts for both claimants and insurers and welcomes conditional fee instructions in appropriate cases. His work includes:
- Employers’ liability, covering a wide variety of accidents at work together with industrial disease claims, including industrial asthma and RADS, asbestos-related illness, NIHL, upper limb disorders, and stress at work. He has particular experience in complex and multi-party actions arising out of accidents on construction sites, and has appeared in many claims involving foreign claimants and migrant workers.
- Public liability, including claims against occupiers and landowners for both personal injury and property damage, cases involving defective products, and highway claims.
- Road traffic accidents, including those raising low-velocity issues. He also has experience of dealing with claims involving issues of fraud, at all stages from initial assessment and investigation through to trial.
Julian has a particular interest in complex assessments of damages and has extensive experience of future earnings loss claims under the 6th Edition of the Ogden Tables, a subject on which he has lectured to a variety of different audiences. He receives frequent instructions to represent both claimants and defendants in substantial six-figure claims at interlocutory hearings, joint settlement meetings, and where necessary at trial or assessment.
His personal injury practice also encompasses inquests, CICA work, CRU appeals, medical appeal tribunals, and considerable expertise in costs. He is frequently instructed to appear at detailed assessments.
Julian regularly delivers seminars on a variety of current issues in personal injury law, both substantive and procedural.
Civil Fraud
In addition to recent experience with alleged fraud (including phantom passengers, staged accidents and low-velocity impacts) in road traffic cases, Julian has also dealt successfully with fraudulent or exaggerated claims in other areas of his practice, including fictitious highways claims and work accidents, and bogus property damage and insurance claims.
Construction
Julian practices in all areas of construction and engineering law including adjudication, arbitration and litigation in building disputes, claims for payment by contractors and project professionals, claims for defective works, and in disputes arising out of everything from modest domestic building projects to large-scale commercial developments. He represented the successful contractor in the Court of Appeal in RMBS v Jervis [2004] 1 WLR 1867 (claim for payment on an interim certificate).
Julian’s practice also includes dealing with negligence claims against surveyors and architects, and with property damage claims arising out of construction and street works.
Commercial Litigation
In addition to his work in the construction field Julian is regularly involved in a range of other commercial and contract litigation, with particular emphasis on sensible commercial advice and trial advocacy. He has particular experience of claims involving the supply of goods and services, and an interest in cases involving highly technical expert evidence.
He also regularly represents local authorities and other landowners in cases of property damage caused by tree roots, fire and flood, and in other nuisance claims.
Insurance
Julian has advised and appeared in a variety of insurance law disputes including those involving misrepresentation and non-disclosure, liability for accidental injury and death, fire damage, including several recent cases involving fires started negligently or deliberately, exclusion and indemnity clauses, and joint insurance. He was junior counsel in Co-operative Legal Services v Taylor Young Partnership and Hoare Lea and Partners [2000] 2 All ER 865, involving claims for contribution in the construction context and the issue of liability between co-insured.
