Practice Areas

Peter Harthan is an experienced and proficient advocate. He takes a mixture of Multi-Track and Fast Track work

Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury

• Clinical Negligence – with particular interest in claims concerning negligent treatment for Gender Dysphoria in young and / or vulnerable patients
• Coroner’s Inquests, particularly in respect of Industrial Disease
• Fatal Accidents
• Serious Orthopaedic and Spinal Injury
• Brain Injury
• Employer’s Liability, including industrial disease and exposure to hazardous substances
• Road Traffic Cases, including the more specialist areas of fraud, low velocity impacts and credit hire
• Public Liability
• Occupier’s Liability
• Product Liability

Mr Harthan regularly takes instruction in high value (>£100k) cases and has acted in;

• Serious injury following an accident at a private dirt bike track where a scrambler flew off a high ridge owing to inadequate signage
• Brain injury caused by negligent exposure to Carbon Monoxide poisoning leading to life changing symptoms
• Fairground accident ride malfunction causing multiple injuries.
• Partial loss of a foot following a Fork Lift Truck injury.
• Poisoning by exposure to hazardous chemicals in cleaning product production.
• Fracture of multiple vertebrae and permanent restriction of movement caused by fall from height.
• Crushing of forearm in an industrial presser causing lifelong disability

Employment

Mr Harthan has a growing practice in Employment Law and takes instructions for both Claimants and Respondents appearing in Employment Tribunals and providing written advices.

Mr Harthan has recently acted successfully for Claimants at trial in securing;

• Damages for a Home Office civil servant for failure to pay her as agreed in her contract of employment
• Damages for Unfair Dismissal for senior nursing staff at Whiston Hospital
• Damages for Unfair Dismissal for a refuse worker at North West Leicestershire District Council

Mr Harthan has recently acted successfully for Respondents at trial

• Dismissal of Unfair Dismissal claims from School support staff (Liverpool City Council)
• Dismissal of an Unfair Dismissal claim for a manual worker from a Construction company
• Dismissal of a campaign manager from a charitable organisation

Free Speech and Article 10 Rights

Mr Harthan has a keen interest in Privacy, Defamation and Libel Law and is currently instructed by a journalist / social commentator in defending a claim relating to publication of information on social media which the Claimant in the case alleges to constitute misuse of private information.

Articles and Briefings

Mr Harthan has written briefings in relation to his practice areas and is always happy to be approached by instructing Solicitors with queries on an informal basis;

Clinical negligence and Gender Dysphoria

Credit Hire, ex turpi causa

Injury by Cricket Ball