Graham Wells

Primarily actions involving the police of all types, acting for the police.

Legal 500 "His knowledge of police law is remarkable" and " a passionate advocate. "

Public Liability

• Civil jury trials – wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution
• Issues concerning police powers and operations, such as search warrants
• Issues of operational negligence and human rights, such as failing to respond to threats
• Personal injuries caused directly or indirectly by police actions.

Employer’s Liability

• Personal injuries suffered in the course of service
• Health and safety concerns arising out of policing

Disciplinary

• Presenting officer
• Legal adviser to panels

Inquests arising out of policing

• Deaths in custody
• Article 2 inquests where the police have been connected with the deceased in the period before the death

Judicial review

Medical negligence cases, for claimants – surgical, medical, psychiatric

Personal Injury for both claimants and defendants, involving all kinds of accidents and injuries resulting both from trauma and from industrial diseases; from small claims to the most severe.

Professional negligence cases:

Several group actions, with subjects as varied as claims for dust on housing estates following local authority repairs to the houses and claims arising from the prescription of LSD within the NHS.

Health and Safety work, having been instructed to act on behalf of international companies in prosecutions brought by the HSE arising out of accidents at work, usually involving fatalities.

Commercial involving contractual disputes

   Primarily actions involving the police of all types, acting for the police.

Legal 500 "Noted for his expertise in handling suspected fraudulent claims." and " a passionate advocate. "

Public Liability

• Civil jury trials – wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution
• Issues concerning police powers and operations, such as search warrants
• Issues of operational negligence and human rights, such as failing to respond to threats
• Personal injuries caused directly or indirectly by police actions.

Employer’s Liability

• Personal injuries suffered in the course of service
• Health and safety concerns arising out of policing

Disciplinary

• Presenting officer
• Legal adviser to panels

Inquests arising out of policing

• Deaths in custody
• Article 2 inquests where the police have been connected with the deceased in the period before the death

Judicial review

Medical negligence cases, for claimants – surgical, medical, psychiatric

Personal Injury for both claimants and defendants, involving all kinds of accidents and injuries resulting both from trauma and from industrial diseases; from small claims to the most severe.

Professional negligence cases:

Several group actions, with subjects as varied as claims for dust on housing estates following local authority repairs to the houses and claims arising from the prescription of LSD within the NHS.

Health and Safety work, having been instructed to act on behalf of international companies in prosecutions brought by the HSE arising out of accidents at work, usually involving fatalities.

Commercial involving contractual disputes