Hamish Fraser

Product Liability

Hamish has experience of product liability disputes in contract, tort, and under the Consumer Protection Act 1987, and in both industrial and consumer contexts. His proficiency is enhanced by a broad practice across contractual, clinical negligence, personal injury, and criminal regulatory disputes.

Examples of Hamish’s work include:

• Instructed in relation to a multi-million pound dispute in respect of a large fire alleged to have resulted from defective machinery in a manufacturing plant (led by Daniel Shapiro KC).
• Preparing a defence in respect of a fire which broke out at a residential property as a result of an allegedly defective power bank.
• Advising in respect of a fire which had broken out at a residential property as a result of an allegedly defective washing machine.
• Advising and successfully representing at trial a business which was alleged to have hired out defective inflatable play equipment after a child was injured when a bouncy castle suddenly deflated at a school ‘fun day’.
• Successfully defending at trial a claim brought against a car repair garage after a defective turbo charger was installed leading to catastrophic engine failure.
• Advice in relation to an £2m breach of contract claim by the purchasers of allegedly defective articulated trailer movers after an operator was killed by a crushing injury (as a pupil).

Selected Cases

Articles

• Waiver of disclosure under the Insurance Act 2015
• Defending W&I claims: strategic themes illustrated in Finsbury Foods v Axis & Ors

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Blogs

• Waiver of disclosure under the Insurance Act 2015

News

• High Court hands down judgment in Clarendon Dental Spa v Zurich [2025] EWHC 267 (Comm)
• Jason Evans-Tovey and Hamish Fraser successful in civil fraud claim in the Chancery Division

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Events

• Crown Office Chambers at The National Pupillage Fair 2024
• Crown Office Chambers Pupillage Open Evening

Qualifications

• BPTC (Outstanding), BPP
• GDL (Distinction), City University
• English Language & Literature (First Class), University of Oxford

Awards

• Buchanan Prize for outstanding performance on the BPTC (Lincoln’s Inn, 2020)
• Advocacy Scholarship (BPP, 2019)
• Tancred Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn, 2019)
• Winner, the Crowther Shield for public speaking (Lincoln’s Inn, 2019)
• Winner, the Crown Office Mooting Competition (2018)
• The Janet Quigley Prize for Middle English studies (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2016)