Rachel Young

Year called:: 2006
Email:: rachelyoung@ropewalk.co.uk
Qualifications:: LLB, University of Birmingham.
Practice areas:: Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Disease, Fraudulent Claims, Costs, Business and Property, Employment

Rachel Young was called to the Bar in 2006.

As part of her degree, Rachel completed a Diploma in French Law (Diplome d’Etudes Juridiques Francaises) at the Universite de Limoges, France.

Thereafter, Rachel obtained a very competent on the Bar Vocational Course at Nottingham Law School. She successfully completed pupillage at Ropewalk Chambers and became a tenant in 2007.

Rachel has a general civil law practice with particular interests in personal injury, clinical negligence, disease, fraudulent claims, costs, business and property and employment claims.

Personal Injury

Rachel enjoys representing both Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of personal injury work. She has a busy practice and provides quantum advices in a wide range of claims, from those of high value involving multiple and severe injuries to low value whiplash injury claims.

Rachel also enjoys advising both Claimants and Defendants in respect of all aspects of liability from road traffic accidents to employer’s liability claims to claims brought against the local authority by reason of accidents which have occurred at school, on playing fields and on the highway.

She has a particular interest in accidents which have occurred abroad and at sea and is happy to advise in respect of any additional complications that this brings to the litigation.

Rachel has also been instructed to attend Coroners’ Inquests, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals and CRU Appeals.

She is happy to accept instructions on the basis of a conditional fee agreement.

Clinical Negligence

Rachel has a particular interest in clinical negligence. It is an area of practice that she is keen to develop.

Rachel has experience of advising both Claimants and Defendants in respect of liability and quantum in cases involving clinical negligence.

Disease

Rachel has acted for both Claimants and Defendants in occupational disease claims.

She is also experienced in advising and drafting statements of case for both claimants and defendants.

During pupillage, she became very familiar with issues of limitation which arise so frequently in claims of this nature.

Fraudulent Claims

Rachel has experience in the field of fraudulent claims, including but not exclusively where allegations of fraud are made in road traffic accidents. She has experience of dealing with low velocity impact claims, exaggerated and fabricated claims.

She has acted at trial and at interim applications. Rachel has considerable experience of drafting Applications in fraudulent claims.

Applications that she has drafted include seeking permission to rely upon engineering evidence on behalf of Defendants and disclosure of the Claimant’s medical records.

Rachel has acted on behalf of Claimants resisting Applications made by Defendants for permission to rely upon their own medical evidence in low velocity impact claims in circumstances where the Defendant has failed to comply with the principles set out in Casey v Cartwright [2006] EWCA Civ 1280.

Rachel also has considerable experience of testing the evidence of key witnesses in conference and determining the merits of the Claimant’s claim or the Defendant’s defence where allegations of fraud have been made.

Costs

She has represented both claimants and defendants at detailed assessment hearings.

She has experience in arguing the appropriate level of success fee under Conditional Fee Agreements where the accident occurred before the commencement of the Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime (at Infant Approval Hearings) and the recoverability of staged insurance premiums.

Rachel has also been involved in cases where the Claimant has failed to provide information about funding arrangements and a relief from sanctions application has been made in order for the Claimant to be able to recover any additional liability.

Business and Property

She frequently appears and advises in business and property matters. She has experience of advising on liability and the likely level of damages for distress and inconvenience arising out of claims for breach of contract.

She has also represented parties in claims arising out of construction contracts, with allegations of defective work and considerations as to whether reinstatement is reasonable.

Rachel also has considerable experience representing both Claimants and Defendants in claims involving credit hire. She has experience of representing both Claimants and Defendants in circumstances where no notice of the right to cancel the agreement has been served pursuant to the Cancellations of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home of Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008.

Rachel also has considerable experience of credit hire claims in general, both advising and drafting pleadings in relation to particular issues including need; rate of hire, period of hire, like for like vehicles and general arguments in respect of mitigation.

Employment

Rachel has represented both Claimants and Respondents at Case Management Discussions, Pre Hearing Reviews and Final Hearings in the Employment Tribunal. She enjoys all aspects of employment law.

She has a particular interest in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. She has experience of advising in respect of claims where the transferor is the subject of bankruptcy or analogous insolvency proceedings which have been instituted with a view to liquidation of the assets of the transferor.