Paul Bowden is a dispute resolution partner and specialises in environmental and product litigation.

Major actions Paul has defended include the Sellafield and Dounreay leukaemia cases, the Waltham Abbey cancer cases and the UK power-line cancer test cases. He acts in smoking and health litigation and advises telecommunications companies on the EMF health issue. He also advises on product liability and recall cases across a range of manufacturing and retail sectors.

Paul has represented clients in a number of judicial review challenges concerning public health issues. These include challenges to the operation of the THORP nuclear reprocessing plant; the challenge to the activation of the National Grid Company’s North London inter-connector; Mohamed Al Fayed’s challenge to mobile phone base station permits, IATA’s challenges to the new departure noise limits at the London airports, and recent challenges to tobacco control legislation and regulatory enforcement action in the food and crops industry.

Paul was a member of the English Joint Bar/Law Society Working Party on Civil Justice and a member of the Multi-Party Action Working Group in Lord Woolf’s Review of Civil Justice in England and Wales. He is the non-executive chairman of the Nottingham Law School.

Contact details

paul.bowden@freshfields.com

  • London office
  • 65 Fleet Street
    London EC4Y 1HS
    United Kingdom
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