Carlo Taczalski

Product Liability

Carlo’s product liability practice overlaps with his commercial, construction, property damage and professional negligence practice, with those cases often involving an element of product liability.

Examples of work in this area include:

• Allcopy v Vision – This was a debt claim, and the defence of a counterclaim in the TCC which was put in the region of £1m, in which it was alleged that photocopier toner provided to the Defendant and Counterclaimant over a period of 6 years was defective, and caused damage to reprographics machines and significant economic losses.  The claim settled shortly before trial.
• Sanglier v Apollo – Sanglier v Apollo – Carlo was counsel for Apollo (leading Michael Harper) on a 5-week trial, following which (and before judgment) Sanglier discontinued against Carlo’s clients, and agreed to pay a significant sum in respect of costs. Concerned complex expert evidence as to the formulation of an adhesive, and questions of limitation of liability and complications arising from long cross-border contractual chains of supplies.
• Instructed as sole counsel in arbitral proceedings concerning a water treatment plant in Eastern Europe, which is said to have been defectively constructed and /or designed (the claim is put at circa Euro 2m).
• Various fire claims involving the failure of electrical components, including being for a leading high-street chain seeking to recover damages, including for business interruption following a fire started by a defective component within a freezer in one of their shops.
• Junior to Andrew Bartlett KC in a London arbitration relating to coverage under a product liability policy in a pharmaceutical context potentially determinative of claims and various layers of insurance worth up to £300m.

Selected Cases

News

• Carlo Taczalski successfully resists short notice freezing injunction: IBMG Ltd and others v McKeon, Williams and others
• Adjudication decision unenforceable for apparent bias

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Articles

• DIPT v Sanglier v Apollo: the importance of assessing the evidence, settling reasonably, and understanding the terms on which you contract
• Carlo Taczalski and Frederick Simpson are successful in the Court of Appeal Cross-undertakings have little place in the security for costs regime

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Events

• Carlo Taczalski to speak at London Build 2021 Expo
• Carlo Taczalski will be speaking at “Cash Is King – Payments and Changes in Tax Laws” webinar by Decipher Group

Qualifications

• Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple (2010)
• Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple (2010)
• Lovells Examination Prize, Downing College (2006)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Scholarship (2005 – 2007)
• MA (Cantab.) (2008)

Memberships

• CLCBAR
• COMBAR
• TECBAR
• PNBA