Diarmuid Laffan

Recent instructions include:

• Acting in a High Court misrepresentation / fraud claim.
• Acting for a retail bank in its defence of a claim relating to the sharing of information with credit reference agencies.
• Assisting Can Yeginsu in advising on a dispute regarding the termination of an international software reselling agreement.
• Assisting Tom Ogden in advising on a partnership dispute arising from a broadband venture.
• Acting for an estate agency claiming fees due under a joint sole agency contract.
• Advising on the regulatory compliance of a claims management company’s commercial arrangements.

Recent instructions include:

• Acting for a main contractor in an adjudication concerning the completion of a major energy project.
• Acting for a structural glass specialist in a claim alleging negligent design.

Recent instructions include:

• Acting for a reinsurer in a substantial arbitration involving non-disclosure and coverage issues.
• Advising a national insurer in relation to ATE insurance.
• Advising underwriters regarding the ambit of specific fraud clauses and the fraudulent claims rule generally.

Recent instructions include:

• Acting for a firm of solicitors in a claim concerning the negotiation of a Share Purchase Agreement.
• Acting for a firm of solicitors in response to a claim regarding the issue of proceedings.
• Acting for a chartered building surveyor in an expert’s negligence claim.
• Advising a firm of solicitors on allegations regarding the settlement of matrimonial financial remedy proceedings.
• Advising a firm of solicitors on the settlement of a personal injury action.
• Assisting with the response to an intimated White v Jones claim (as a pupil).

Recent instructions include:

• Instructed as a member of the claimant’s counsel team in the landmark case of R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, in which the Supreme Court substantially revised the law of secondary criminal liability, abolishing the controversial doctrine of parasitic accessorial liability.
• Instructed by Article 19 in its intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the pending case of Ganbarova and Others v Azerbaijan, the first ECHR case to consider travel bans as restrictions of the right to freedom of expression.

“His approach is incredibly professional and very strategic, distilling matters for lay clients.” – Legal 500, 2020

Recent instructions include:

• Acting for the Appellant before the National Anti-Doping Panel in Hosseinpoor v UKAD (SR/NADP/667/2016), in which the Appellant was granted a 50% reduction in his two year additional sanction for training in breach of an existing anti-doping ban.