It is with great sadness that Iscoed Chambers announces that Philip Marshall died on 15th September 2009. He is greatly missed by all at Chambers.
Mr. Marshall was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire where he attended a local grammar school. In 1974 he graduated from Clare College, Cambridge where he obtained a first class honours degree in law and was called to the Bar in 1975. A member of Middle Temple Inns of Cour, he was awarded one of the prestigious Harmsworth Scholarships and also was made an Astbury Exhibioner. Pupillage was at Iscoed Chambers where his pupil master was Gareth Williams, later to become Lord Williams of Mostyn QC, Attorney General of England and Wales, and he remained there as a tenant.
While a student, and in pupillage, he was a contributor to the Encylopaedia of Labour Law, annotated for Current Law Statutes the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and was the author of "Employment Law", one of the Nutshell guides for Sweet and Maxwell. He has been a tenant at Iscoed since 1976 and is also a door tenant at Farrar's Building, London.
His career initially covered a broad base of most aspects of civil, employment, family and criminal work. In most recent years he has specialised in personal injury (which comprises the majority of his practice), professional negligence, employment, planning, local government and complex criminal cases. His practice in personal injury includes the most serious cases, representing both claimants and defendants, where he appears extensively in courts in both South Wales and England. Cases he has been successfully involved in include Charles v. Hugh James Jones and Jenkins (admission of medical evidence after the notional date in professional negligence claims) and Dugmore v. Swansea NHS Trust & Another (absolute duty under the COSHH Regulations), both of which have had significant implications in their respective areas of law. Mr. Marshall retains a passion for employment law and regularly appears in complicated cases, both for employers and employees, before the ET and the EAT. His experience in both personal injury and criminal work has also led, in particular, to him prosecuting and defending in health and safety cases, especially those involving fatalities. Involvement in other criminal work is now more selective, and includes complex fraud cases; having prosecuted on behalf of the Inland Revenue has been helpful in this respect. He is a category 4 prosecutor.
Mr. Marshall has appointments as a Recorder, sitting in both Crown and County courts, Junior Counsel to the Crown Provincial Panel and Counsel to the National Assembly for Wales Administrative Law Panel. He was involved in establishing the successful Wales and Chester Circuit Free Representation Scheme, of which he remains the Co-ordinator.
He is married to Elizabeth Marshall, also a tenant of Iscoed Chambers.