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Ben Compton Qc is a Queen's Counsel at Outer Temple Chambers at Outer Temple Chambers. He possess expertise in criminal law, research, powerpoint, microsoft word, customer service and 11 more skills.

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  Queen'S Counsel

  Outer Temple Chambers

  Mar 2003 - Present - 222 The Strand London Wc2R 1 Ba

  Ben Compton QC is first and foremost a specialist advocate in health and safety with extensive experience in civil and criminal courts, subsequent appeals at the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, and jury inquests through out the UK.The vast majority of his health and safety practice is spent representing corporate defendants and company directors in cases concerning fatalities or serious injury, and he has been instructed in the majority of the major disaster cases i.e. the Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy, the Pescado, the Copthorne legionella case, Potters Bar, Tebay and the Hednesford rail crashes. In 2008 he appeared in the House of Lords in Chargot; widely viewed as the most important case on health and safety in the last decade because of it’s analysis of risk and what the prosecution have to prove as part of their prima facie case. In 2009 he appeared in the Court of Appeal in EGS Ltd which added further clarification to the Chargot Ruling. He is currently instructed in a number of major investigations on behalf of the defence, including the Warwickshire Fire tragedy, where four fire fighters were killed at a warehouse in Atherstone -on-Stour, the Lakanal House and Marine Tower block fires and the most recent electric gates fatality in Wales.Other areas of practice include:Personal injury:- including catastrophic brain and spinal injury.Clinical negligence including brain injury, laparoscopic surgery negligence, injuries at birth and loss of a chance.Medical disciplinary work defending healthcare professionals at the General Medical Council and PCT disciplinary work, with overlapping inquests and criminal matters across the full range of criminal charges.He also has a significant interest in International work in the BVI (he is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Bar), the Middle East, and the United States of America.Ben Compton is a member of HSLA, UKELA and PIBAHe was appointed a Recorder in 2005 and a Q.C. in 2011.