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Martin Bare and Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton at APIL Conference, 2007 |
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Born | 24 July 1960 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | Magdalen College Oxford, College of Law Chester |
Occupation | Solicitor |
Employer | Morrish Solicitors LLP |
Known for | Personal injury specialist |
Title | Partner |
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www.morrishsolicitors.com/profile |
Martin Adam Bare (born 24 July 1960) is a solicitor in the United Kingdom. He is a personal injury law specialist, a Fellow and past-President of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). In July 2009, he was selected by The Times for their Law Panel, ‘an advisory body of 100 of the country's most prominent barristers and solicitors’ as one of three personal injury specialists.[1]
Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the youngest of five children of Ronald Earl and Irene (née Russell), he attended Gosforth High School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence), taking his Solicitors Finals at The College of Law in Chester in 1982. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1984 while at Emsley Collins. Aged just 28, he moved to Morrish Solicitors LLP (then known as Morrish & Co) as a Partner and personal injury specialist, joining the Executive of the APIL in 2003, serving as President from 2007 until 2008.
During his time as President of APIL, he continued the fight to change the debate on employer liability by focusing argument on the injured claimants themselves as opposed to the nature of claims costs.[2][3] He also campaigned for improvements on workplace health and safety and lobbied the Financial Services Authority to stamp out unscrupulous third party capture practices by insurers.[4]
After the end of his presidency, he coined the term ‘lolly money’ to denote instances of third party capture, where insurers offer frivolous compensation to accident victims who have not taken legal or medical advice.[5] He is named by influential industry sources as ‘a major force in the market’.[6]
In February 2010 he gave evidence to the House of Lords' Special Public Bill Committee on the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Bill.[7] He also gave evidence to the Department of Work and Pensions' Select Committee on Directors' Duties[8] for the bill to reform the law on corporate killing, later enacted as the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which came into force in April 2008.
He is a Life Member of Headway, APIL and the Spinal Injuries Association.[9] He co-authored the textbook Model Pleadings and Applications[10] and contributed the Chapter 'Costs, Funding and Conditional Fee Arrangements' in the 2010 edition of Occupational Illness Litigation [11].
He acted for victims of the Bradford City stadium fire, York Carriageworks Asbestos,[12] Selby rail crash and Hatfield rail crash. He is one of a limited number of solicitors to have recovered over £10 million in damages in less than ten cases.
He lectures for APIL Training (formerly the College of Personal Injury Law), Central Law Training[13] and continues to lobby government on personal injury and occupational disease related matters, including taking a central advisory role in the Employers’ Liability Insurance Bureau Bill (introduced to Parliament by Andrew Dismore MP), significantly influencing Section 3 of the Compensation Act 2006 to restore a mesothelioma victim’s right to sue in certain circumstances, and advising the working party drafting the Claims management company regulation.