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Barry McTaggart

Year of Call: 2025
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7583 8055

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Clerks Details

  • Clerk Name: Edward Holdstock
  • Clerk Telephone: 01962 868 884
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]
  • Clerk Name: Ellie Dawkins
  • Clerk Telephone: 01962 868 884
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]

Overview

Barry McTaggart specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and inquests.

Barry has a busy court practice and is regularly instructed in matters arising from RTA and casualty (EL/PL) claims. He is experienced in acting for both claimants and defendants, and regularly represents insurers in defending fraudulent claims.

He also has an extensive paperwork practice, frequently advising on liability, quantum and overall strategy, as well as drafting pleadings, schedules of loss and questions to experts.

He also appears in inquests, acting for bereaved families and other interested persons.

Since commencing practice, Barry has gained a reputation for his pragmatic advice and confident advocacy.

Outside law, his interests include running, learning about wine and ski-mountaineering. Before coming to the Bar, Barry led a team of first responders and avalanche technicians in the Canadian Rockies at one of North America’s largest ski resorts.

Expertise

  • Personal Injury
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    Barry is experienced in a wide range of hearings, including trials, CMCs and applications for specific disclosure, strike-out, relief from sanctions and unless orders. His practice includes credit hire, occupiers’ liability, employers’ liability, and claims under the Animals Act 1971.

    His recent experience includes:

    • Securing the dismissal of a £45,000 claim for vehicle damage and credit hire at a fast-track trial
    • Assisting with the Schedule of Loss in a severe brain injury claim, involving complex calculations of past and future loss of earnings, which settled for £2.6 million
    • Acting both for and against claimants in claims where fundamental dishonesty was alleged, including cross-examination and submissions under s 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
    • Advising on prospects in a secondary victim claim for psychiatric harm, applying the principles in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Foundation Trust [2024] UKSC 1
    • Obtaining a third-party costs order in credit hire litigation, following Tescher v Direct Accident Management Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 733
    • Advising a nursery on strategy in a claim arising from a child’s playground injury during a game with a member of staff
    • Securing costs orders under CPR 27.14(2)(g) on the basis of a party’s unreasonable behaviour
    • Advising on liability in a noise-induced hearing loss claim arising from a visit to a nightclub
    • Drafting Part 35 questions to medical experts in multi-track litigation
    • Appearing in costs-only hearings, including a Fixed Costs Determination under CPR Part 45
  • Clinical Negligence
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    Barry has developed a growing clinical negligence practice. Recent experience includes assisting with the drafting of Particulars of Claim in a case concerning allegations of negligent cataract surgery and a failure to obtain informed consent.

  • Inquests
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    Barry accepts instructions from all interested persons, including bereaved families, local authorities, and ambulance and NHS services.

    His recent experience includes representing a bereaved family at a multi-day inquest involving multiple interested persons and a range of medical issues arising from a death in hospital.

  • Articles

    • Every child achieving and thriving explained

      11th May 2026

      Alice de Coverley and Barry McTaggart write for LexisNexis on the government’s recent SEND White Paper.

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