Lydia O. McLatchie
Lydia.McLatchie@kennedyslaw.com
+44 20 7667 9777
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Lydia is an associate working in Kennedys’ products law and life science team in London having become a chartered legal executive in 2024.
Lydia acts for insurers and manufacturers in relation to product liability, product safety and regulatory matters, with a focus on medical devices, mass tort and group litigation (including NOx emissions and gynaecological products).
Lydia has experience in cross border claims, defending motor and personal injury claims on behalf of both British and foreign insurers:
(i) Defending claims brought before the English courts on behalf of foreign insurers where foreign law is applied and issues arise about jurisdiction; or
(ii) With the help of Lydia’s language skills, assisting English insurers where claims are brought before the French court under French law with English Defendants.
Work highlights
- Representing manufacturers of gynaecological products in litigation in the UK.
- Advised car manufacturers in the context of NOx emissions litigation.
- Advised multinational tobacco companies in respect of regulatory monitoring and product compliance, on a worldwide basis.
- Advised clients regarding several threatened product liability claims in the UK.
- Advised a worldwide cosmetic manufacturer as part of a monitoring and coordination brief, about the defence of claims brought in Poland, Kenya, South Africa, Israel, and Brazil.
- Acting for insurers in relation to claims for personal injury caused by allegedly defective household items.
- Representing several foreign insurers before the Courts of England & Wales in relation to accidents which happened abroad, often with complex issues relating to applicable law, foreign law, jurisdiction and expert evidence.
- Acted on behalf of European insurers and a market of reinsurers in relation to a fatality claim litigated in England. This included a dependency claim pleaded at the highest level for any single “injury” case in English legal history and a connected product liability claim (ES & Others v Groupama Méditerranée v Goodyear [2018] EWHC 2594 (QB)).
- Currently handling claims subject to French law on behalf of British insurers in which claimants are seeking additional compensation sometimes over 10 years after the index accidents.