Jack Macaulay

Industrial Disease

Jack has dealt with most forms of occupational disease claim, at all stages of litigation, including early advice/drafting of pleadings, representation at CCMCs/interlocutory applications, through to final hearings. His experience includes claims in respect of:

• Mesothelioma and asbestosis
• NIHL
• HAVS
• Asthma and other respiratory diseases

Recent noteworthy cases include:

• A claim in respect of diffuse pleural thickening caused by asbestos exposure allegedly occurring in the course of groundworks. The case is notable because of the stark difference in the exposure alleged by the claimant, who says he was required to dig up buried asbestos waste and dispose of it by hand, and the defendant’s position that the claimant never worked with asbestos at all.
• Representing the fire service in a case where a firefighter alleged he had suffered acoustic trauma from exposure to the siren of a fire engine. The case was defended to trial at which the experts attended for cross examination on the complex issues of what noise levels are capable of causing tinnitus/acoustic trauma. HHJ Baucher accepted Jack’s submissions on both breach of duty and causation and dismissed the claim.

Selected Cases

Articles

• Fundamental dishonesty – the importance of ensuring that you’ve given sufficient notice and that your grounds go to dishonesty rather than incompetence
• Ho v Adelekun: a need-to-know decision for all PI practitioners

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News

• Chambers is delighted to announce that two members have been appointed to the Attorney General’s London Panel of Counsel
• Jack Macaulay successfully defeats novel limitation argument

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Qualifications

LLB, Law with European Legal Studies (First Class) King’s College London, 2003-7

ERASMUS year at Uppsala University, Sweden, 2005-6

LLM (Cantab) 2007-8

BVC (Very Competent) BPP London, 2008-9

Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn

Languages: French (intermediate), Spanish (improving), Swedish (basic)

Memberships

• PIBA
• PNBA