Colleen Cumbers

Product Liability

Colleen is developing a strong paper practice in this area. Examples of her recent work include:

• Being instructed to assist a team of counsel acting for one of the lead defendant manufacturers in The NOx Emissions Group Litigation – one of the largest group actions in English legal history – with the final stage of a technically-complex document review ahead of the upcoming PDD trial and assisting with research in relation to alleged losses.
• Settling the Defence on behalf of a well-known chain of hotels in a claim for breach of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 on the basis of the supply of an allegedly defective pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) food which caused a hotel guest to suffer a serious anaphylactic shock.
• Settling the Defence on behalf of the importer and mid-chain supplier of an allegedly defective motorcycle in a claim for repair costs. Issues included whether a product recall should have been issued and whether the importer/mid-chain supplier owed duties to the claimant as the ultimate purchaser of the product. Colleen subsequently drafted an application for strike out/summary judgment and will appear at the hearing of this application later this year.

Selected Cases

Awards

• Inner Temple Pegasus Scholarship
• Inner Temple Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award
• Inner Temple Major Scholarship
• Inner Temple Exhibition Scholarship
• Dean’s Award for Best Academic Performance in MA Law (Conversion)
• Various Finals Collections Prizes from Oriel College, University of Oxford
• Winner of Multiple Moots / Mock Trials incl. the Aqeel H. Noorali Moot Cup

News

• Members of Crown Office Chambers recognised for their Pro Bono work
• Crown Office Chambers welcomes two new tenants

Events

• Crown Office Chambers at The National Pupillage Fair 2024

Blogs

• How Can a Party Enforce a Foreign Arbitration Award in the Courts of England and Wales?

Qualifications

• BA French and German (First Class), University of Oxford
• MA Law (Conversion) (Distinction), University of Law
• LLM Master of Laws (Distinction), University of Law

Memberships

• Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
• Technology and Construction Bar Association (TECBAR)
• The Society of Construction Law (SCL)
• Professional Negligence Bar Association (PNBA)
• London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA)
• Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG)
• Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA)