School:

– Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Merseyside – [1961 -1970]

– Merchant Taylors’ Company Prizes and Harrison Scholar;

– Royal Air Force Flying Scholarship, gliding wings at 16 with a full pilot’s licence at age 17 [having spent several years in the Air Cadets].

Hebrew University, Jerusalem:

– Spring and Summer terms, 1971 before going to Cambridge

– Fluent Hebrew

Cambridge 1971-1974

– Cambridge University Squire Scholarship for Law,

– Pembroke College Exhibitioner [x3] and Ziegler Prize for Law.

Inner Temple: Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship

Civil

• Privacy and the Media – injunctive and “super” injunctive relief;
• Pre-emptive commercial remedies including freezing and seizing orders/injunctions;
• Insurance disputes;
• Engineering issues;
• Product liability including pharmaceutical product liability and blood products;
• Acted for directors of a major airline on an issue of alleged secret profits;
• Professional [including solicitors’] negligence;
• Liability for injuries sustained during competitive sport;
• Alder Hey Body Parts Enquiry – acting for 400+ parents [Redfern QC was Chair to the Enquiry];
• Acted for estate developer in the context of the failed foundations to a large housing estate;
• The law relating to lottery syndicates;
• Clinical negligence [particularly brain damage at birth/ cerebral palsy and any issue arising from genetics] and catastrophic injury claims [brain and spinal cord]. In this arena, he has a wide knowledge and experience of medical matters, medical expert evidence and the welfare issues that flow from catastrophic injury at all ages [e.g. adult social care].
• False imprisonment, malicious prosecution and misfeasance in public office;
• The regulatory framework for e-commerce/ e-gaming and crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin [participation in the Crypto Valley Summit on the Isle of Man in September 2014, [which was introduced by the Lieutenant Governor].
• The regulatory framework for the extraction of shale gas.

Crime

• Representation of the People Act [election fraud]
• His successfully prosecuting one of the earliest cases involving computerised telephone evidence. [R v Shacklady, one of the largest prosecutions brought by Preston CPS]
• He has a special expertise in relation to covert surveillance and phonetic interpretation, and he has developed a practice protocol for covert surveillance evidence. [R v Albattikhi , one of the largest and highest profile cases outside London in 2007/8; acquittal].
• He has defended a case where the central witness for the prosecution was anonymous [under the 2008 legislation];
• He successfully overcame a phalanx of pathology evidence ranged against him in a manslaugter prosecution against a club bouncer [drawing on his forensic medical experience];
• He has a broad experience of human rights issues [including in the Court of Appeal];
• Complex issues of ballistic evidence and DNA [he has a particular expertise in genetics]
• Confiscation and Proceeds of Crime, recovering for example over £2m in the Shacklady case.
• He deployed his expertise in child psychology [harvested from practice in the Family Division] successfully to defend an uncle charged as being part of a paedophile ring.
• He has a particular expertise in non-accidental head injury to babies, again harmonising his experience of the Crown Court and the Family Division.
• He challenged the telephone statistical evidence in one of the largest cases prosecuted by Avon and Somerset for 15 years [R v Wall and others] securing an acquittal where his client was charged with conspiracy to murder, the telephone evidence being held out by the prosecution as pointing to his client as the focal point of the 9-hander conspiracy.
• Lead cases in the Court of Appeal as to joint enterprise, and SOCPA agreements.

Family

• Human Rights;
• Genetics (including human rights);
• Surrogacy;
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology;
• Public Law cases with a foreign element, [“Brussels II Revised” including Article 15 applications];
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome;
• Muslim circumcision;
• Proceedings under the Forced Marriage Act;
• Schedule 1 Children Act claims [property and maintenance];
• Media Access to the Family Courts and Reporting Restriction Orders;
• Factitious Induced Injury [FII “Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy”]
• International child abduction;
• Non – accidental head injury [NAHI];
• Wardship post – Children Act;
• Inter-action of insolvency, divorce and the matrimonial home.
• International adoption

– Honorary Professor [2017]: Nottingham Trent University

– Visiting Professor [The Sir Jack Jacob Chair in Litigation], Nottingham Law School [1993]

Iain Goldrein QC was offered this Chair because the Law-School Professors perceived from his publishing that he shared their agenda of achieving greater equality and diversity in litigation, to which end he assisted in setting up the Centre of Advanced Litigation and also in drafting the LLM course in Advanced Litigation. The Chair is explicitly in Procedural Law.

Mr Goldrein’s Inaugural Professional Paper [1993] was entitled ” Issue! Issue! – or we all fall down.” It argued for the levelling of the litigation playing field by reference to the following: Pro-active judicial case management, to a timetable, by reference to defined issues, transparently, proportionately to a budget, on the basis that the entirety of procedural law should be underpinned expressly by ”The Pursuit of Justice”.

– Visiting Professor [2016]: Chair in Law and Genetics, Bolton University.

– Honorary Doctorate in law at Bolton University.

– Companion of the Academy of Experts Appointed by Lord Slynn for assistance to the Academy, the aim being to level the playing field for litigator, litigant and expert irrespective of background [Iain Goldrein’s chapter on the practice and principles of expert evidence in the Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service was, he believes, the first such treatise in the UK in the field of common law];

– Advisory Editor: Hong Kong Civil Procedure [The Hong Kong “White Book”]

– International Advisory Editor: Malaysian Civil Procedure [The Malaysian “White Book”]

– Foreword to the Singapore Edition of Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings.

– Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

– Advisory Council, Centre for Opposition Studies, Westminster.

– Fellow of the Institue of Advanced Legal Studies.

• Panel Deemster: Isle of Man from 2012.
• Deputy High Court Judge [Family Division] from 2008.
• Recorder with authority to sit in:
• Crime [from 1995];
• Civil [from 1998];
• Family [from 1998].
• Queen’s Counsel [1997]
• Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal [Restricted Cases Panel] 1999 – 2002.

– Now retired Chair and Trustee of the Liverpool Cornerstones Foundation charity. The purpose of this charity [registered with the Charity Commission] is to provide an open future to the most vulnerable children [children in care and on the edge of care], by way of competitive awards, sponsorship, mentoring, work experience an apprenticeships, to empower these children to become the cornerstones of Liverpool. [The original concept and initiative was Iain Goldrein’s, flowing from Psalm 118: “The stone which the builder rejected has become the cornerstone”].

– Advisory board – Distinguished Peace Builders.

– International Advisory Board, Centre for Islamic Finance, Bolton University.

– [Liverpool] Mayoral Commission on Environmental Sustainability: One of 6 members.

Qualified Mediator in Commerce and Family matters:

• Accredited by the Academy of Experts [1991] and the ADR Group [2009 and 2010]
• Invited to provide the Foreword to the Asia Mediation Handbook [2015];
• His assistance with a leading book on mediation published in HK [“The Hong Mediation Handbook” 2010] is expressly acknowledged in that work by the Editor.

Panel Member of:

• Academy of Experts
• Consensus Mediation
• ADR Group
• Belief in Mediation and Arbitration (BIMA – expressly aimed at achieving harmony in the context of diversity)

Other Memberships: Civil Mediation Council and the Association of Northern Mediators.

University of West London: He has provided assistance to Ealing Law School as to the launching of a mediation course.

• Chairing and speaking at a Major conference on Law and Genetics in Nottingham on 9th June 2014, which Iain Goldrein also delivered at the Royal College of Medicine in 2015.
• Chairing and speaking on Family Public Law cases with a foreign element; analysis of recent case law in this rapidly evolving arena.
• Addressing the Isle of Man Law Society in December 2017 on judicial case management, expert evidence and “hot-tubbing”.

• Past Member of the Following:

– Muslim – Jewish Forum [to achieve harmony in relationships between Muslim and Jew]

– Bar Pro Bono Panel

– Association of Northern Mediators

– Faith in the Future

• Past Member of:

– Young Barristers’ Committee

– Bar Technology Committee

– Northern Circuit Commerical Bar Association

– Bar Council Law Reform Committee

– Some-time Inner Temple Representatie in Liverpool

• Experience of people: He has extensive experience of chairing and lecturing for major national conferences [including for the Law Society and Bar Council] affording a very wide experience of people. His audiences have ranged from several hundred to small syndicate groups.
• Training of solicitor advocates: At the invitation of the national Law Society, he assisted in training the first tranche of Higher Court Advocates.
• Hong Kong: In Hong Kong he has lectured to several hundred litigators and academics on their new CPR Code [2009] with particular reference to equality and a level playing field. Lloyds List in September 2009 published a feature about his work via a vis the HK CPR and ADR.
• Iain Goldrein KC is media trained.

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