David Pilling

David Pilling was educated at the University of Sheffield, and was called to the bar in 1999.

 

His main areas of practice are Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Landlord and Tenant and Costs. He is a member of APIL and PIBA. He is a member of APIL's clinical negligence special interest group. He is the co-author of a chapter dealing with expert evidence for a Jordans/APIL looseleaf publication onal Injury: Law, Practice and Precedents.

 

His housing practice covers both public and private tenancies, dealing with possession, disrepair, homelessness and boundary disputes on behalf of both landlords and tenants.

 

He was a director of a legal costs company advising major insurer clients and local authorities and appearing in English v Clipson (the precursor to the TAG test cases) and at District Judge level in Sarwar v Alam. He is now regularly instructed by both receiving and paying parties at first instance and on appeal. He was extensively involved in costs litigation arising from the North West Child Abuse Cases group and has experience of dealing with the costs of receivers and trustees in bankruptcy. Mr Pilling also gives regular lectures on costs, both to local law societies and to individual firms of solicitors.

 

His reported cases include: