Michael Fullerton
Year of Call 1990
1982; Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria;
1990; Called to the Bar of England and Wales;
Broad practice and established practitioner of both crime defence and civil law including appellate work. Former legal practice included family law over ten years including ancillary relief, applications to leave the jurisdiction with children, custody and Local Authority Care Cases.
Serious violence including murder, kidnap, GBH, robbery, drug offences including production and trafficking, sexual offences including rape and child sex offences, dishonesty offences including fraud, false accounting, tax evasion, road traffic offences including causing death by dangerous driving, Revenue and Customs offences including evasion of duty and money laundering, obscenity, perverting the course of justice, intimidation of jurors, arson and criminal damage.
Defence of RSPCA and Local Authority prosecutions under Protection of Animals Act 1911, Animal Welfare Act 2006, Dogs Act 1871, Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, breaches of European Regulations and other Trading Standards.
Commercial and Contract litigation including Freezing Orders and Anton Piller Orders, Disqualification of Directors, Building and Construction, Costs Application under s.51(3) Supreme Court Act 1981. Insurance cases include rejected claims under PHI, employment, home and motor policies.
Cases include claims for negligence and breach of statutory duties involving serious road trauma, industrial and sporting accidents. Novel claims include osseo-integration amputee, lost chance cases of professional kick-boxer and pilot, toboggan accident, footballers, pedestrians.
Noted civil cases include;
Williams v Fisher (1998) Kemp & Kemp, F2-001.
Miles v McGregor (23/1/98) C.A.
Langford v Hebran [2001] EWCA Civ 361; C.A; [2001] PIQR Q13;
Parker v TUI [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, C.A.
Direct Access; Registered and accepted both criminal and civil cases.
Mediator; Qualified August 2008.