5 Unity Street Chambers, Bristol BS1 5HH
0117 906 9789 / 0117 906 9799 (fax)
david.curwen@unitystreetchambers.com

Year of Call and Inn

1982 Gray’s Inn

Professional Details

Personal Injury – areas of work includes a wide variety of slipping and tripping cases under Highways Act, Occupiers Liability Act and Workplace Regulations, road traffic accidents, employer’s liability including industrial diseases particularly Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury cases, Package Holiday cases.

Employment law – representing both Claimant and Defendants in Employment Tribunals and the Civil Courts.

Areas of Work include all those categories of discrimination that now come under the Equality Act 2010.

Unfair and wrongful dismissal. TUPE cases. Cases involved protected disclosure and cases involving restrictive covenants.

Notable Cases

Hilton v Shiner 2001 IRLR 727
Maurice v Betterware 2001 ICR 14
Grahams Garden Machinery v Warne UKEAT/0155/10
Saunders v Libra Holidays – involving consideration evidence of local standards in a package holiday case.
Charles v Eden Springs Water Co – case involving expert evidence in a repetitive strain injury trial.

Professional Overview

Editor of Sweet Maxwell Practical Civil Courts Precedents – Chapter on Miscellaneous Torts.

Accredited pupil master.

Formal Education

BA (History) Warwick University
Professional Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association

Community Activities

Chair of Governors of Freshford Primary School from 2006 to 2010. Have raised money for RUH Forever Friends Appeal in half marathon and 10K runs.