Samuel Healy
Year of call: 1999
areas of practice
synopsis
Sam has a busy and varied civil practice that divides into three broad specialisms: Employment, Personal Injury and Chancery/Commercial. He has been on the Attorney General's Panel of Counsel since 2007 and has been recommended for Employment work by the Legal 500 every year since 2009.
EMPLOYMENT:
Particulars areas of interest and experience inlcude:
- Discrimination: complex, multi-week Tribunals involving all protected characteristics as well as victimisation
- TUPE
- Public Interest Disclosure claims
- Employment litigation in the civil courts, inlcuding discrimination, redundancy, wrongful dismissal and restrictive covenants
PERSONAL INJURY:
Particular areas of interest and experience include:
- Employer and public liability claims
- Industrial disease
- Product liability
- Inquests
CHANCERY/COMMERCIAL:
- Real property, including proprietary estoppel, sale of land, adverse possession, boundary/easement disputes, nuisance, restrictive covenants and Land Registry practice
- Landlord & tenant, including residential (possession, disrepair, anti-social behaviour) and commercial disuputes (forfeiture, dilapidations, breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment)
- Wills and Probate, including administration disputes, contentious probate and Inheritance Act claims
- Professsional Negligence, particularly claims against solicitors and surveyors
- Contract, including sale of goods, partnership and building disputes
- Human Right Act litigation in the County Court, particularly claims brought by prisoners
DIRECTORY RECOMMENDATIONS
The Legal 500 2011: Employment
"Sam Healy at York Chambers is highly recommended."
notable cases
- Balls v. WMCIU UKEAT (2011) : unfair dismissal/whistle blowing
- Abiola v. NYCC & Eteach UKEAT/0369/08/DM : discrimination/victimisation.
- PJ Spillings Ltd v. Bonus Flooring Ltd [2008] All ER (D) 183 (Jun) : measure of damages in building dispute.
education
- MA (Hons) (Cantab) - Law (with European option)
- Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- Universite De Poitiers, France
- Inns of Court School of Law
- Whittaker scholarship, Trinity College
appointments
- Attorney General's Panel of Counsel (Regional): 2007 and re-appointed 2010.
- Sam regularly advises and represents the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Defence and HMRC, as well as other Government departments, both in the Employment Tribunal and County Court.
memberships
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Personal Injury Bar Association
- Chancery Bar Association
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
other information
- Sam regularly lectures in his areas of expertise, particularly in Employment and Personal Injury. He is a registered Pupil Supervisor. He is a keen fell runner and lives in York with his wife and three children.
