{"id":59,"date":"2015-03-29T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2015-03-29T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:55:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=59","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a barrister practising at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitychambers.co.uk\/\">Trinity Chambers<\/a> in Newcastle and working across the country specialising in professional negligence litigation with a particular focus on financial services claims for individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I qualified as a solicitor in 2010 at a national insurance practice and moved to what became a listed international firm. In 2018 I was Called to the Bar by Middle Temple to focus on where I am most effective &#8211; as an advocate and advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interests have been in litigation from the outset and I enjoy the technical challenges involved in litigation and resolving disputes. As such a lot of my law related posts relate to issues I encounter or hear of and am keen to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a born and bred geek I have been interested in the intersection of law and developing technology and may occasionally essay a comment on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When not wrestling with such legal concepts I can be found climbing up, falling off or looking in a perplexed fashion at a climbing wall; or falling off a boat into (usually) cold English water or sometimes warm seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to get in touch I am <a href=\"mailto:chris@chrishegarty.com\">chris@chrishegarty.com<\/a> or for professional communications <a href=\"mailto:c.hegarty@trinitychambers.co.uk\">c.hegarty@trinitychambers.co.uk<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a barrister practising at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle and working across the country specialising in professional negligence litigation with a particular focus on financial services claims for individuals. I qualified as a solicitor in 2010 at a national insurance practice and moved to what became a listed international firm. In 2018 I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}