Stuart has a thriving civil practice acting in cases involving clinical negligence, industrial disease, personal injury, professional discipline, employment and sports law.
Stuart’s practice regularly sees him act in high-value and complex High Court matters.
Stuart’s cases regularly involve serious spinal and brain injuries often with complex questions relating to breach of duty and causation. Stuart is adept at dealing with expert evidence across all disciplines in which he acts.
Stuart’s clinical negligence work has covered a very broad range of medical scenarios and specialities.
Stuart has been instructed in some of the highest profile sports cases over recent years. He is appointed to the Sports Resolution National Panel to hear sports disputes.
Stuart’s disease practice sees him regularly act in fatal mesothelioma claims. He has experience of the full range of disease work covering areas such as hand-arm vibration and noise induced hearing loss.
Stuart has a depth and breadth of experience in professional discipline work. He has successfully prosecuted and defended professionals across clinical professions, acted in teaching cases, and in cases involving lawyers and accountants. Stuart has also appeared in High Court appeal proceedings in disciplinary cases.
Stuart’s employment work covers claims under the Equality Act 2010, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, worker status, equal pay and similar matters. Stuart has also acted in equality claims in civil courts.
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Clinical Negligence
Stuart has a very busy clinical negligence practice. He has been involved in a breadth of cases including maternity, spinal issues, brain injury, delayed diagnosis, failure to refer, dental negligence, opioid dependency and many other conditions.
Stuart is very happy dealing with the detail of expert evidence and running cases with multiple experts. In particular, Stuart enjoys advising on expert evidence in conference and on paper and settling clinical negligence pleadings.
Stuart is equally happy appearing in inquests where there is a clinical element whether for insurers, healthcare providers or for families.
Employment
Stuart has acted in discrimination, unfair dismissal, harassment, whistleblowing, breach of contract and employment-status claims. This includes advising and acting on appeal.
Stuart provides very regular advice and drafting to a range of claimant and respondent clients. This includes work for insurers and trade unions.
Stuart also runs grievance processes for commercial clients as they seek amicable resolution of internal disputes.
Stuart has acted in employment related arbitrations in football.
Industrial Disease
Stuart has extensive industrial disease experience across most disciplines of industrial disease work.
Stuart regularly acts in asbestos claims including matters on the Kings Bench mesothelioma list.
Stuart has acted in many noise-induced hearing loss claims arising across a variety of employment settings.
Stuart acts in hand-arm vibration syndrome cases and COSHH cases.
Stuart is very happy advising on issues that arise in such cases, such as breach of duty evidence from engineers and industrial hygienists, expert evidence on medical causation and limitation.
Sport
Stuart’s sports law work straddles personal injury, industrial disease, disciplinary and employment law.
Stuart is on the Sports Resolutions National Panel to sit in adjudication on sports disputes.
Stuart has acted for a number of rugby union and league players in claims relating to brain injuries.
Additionally, Stuart has experience in football matters and has appeared in Rule K FA arbitration proceedings.
Stuart also has experience in boxing, dealing with serious brain injuries and issues relating to safety regulations.
Stuart has significant experience in professional discipline work, including on appeal at the High Court, and is well-placed to deal with matters relating to disciplinary cases in the sports sector.
Personal Injury
Stuart has extensive experience working for claimants and defendants across all types of personal injury work.
Stuart has achieved excellent results for clients in employers’ liability, public liability, occupiers’ liability, nuisance, and highways claims.
Stuart acts in cases involving brain injuries, spinal injuries, life altering limb injuries and psychiatric injuries. He is very comfortable dealing with experts and does so very regularly.
Stuart prides himself on his pragmatic tactical approach to cases.
Professional Discipline & Regulation
Stuart’s disciplinary practice is quite evenly split between prosecuting and defending. He has appeared in many multi-week trials across a broad range of tribunals.
Stuart has extensive experience in cases in the healthcare sector and has had many significant results for clients in either defending claims or securing findings or erasure when prosecuting.
Stuart has experience of acting for lawyers facing disciplinary proceedings and has gained very positive outcomes for clients.
Stuart has worked across Teaching Regulation Agency Cases, accountancy, and Social Work England cases.
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Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor of Law (LLB) – First Class – University of Law, London.
- Bar Professional Training Course – Very Competent – University of Law, London.
- Graduate Diploma in Law – Distinction – University of Law, London.
- Graduate Certificate in Procurement Law – University of Nottingham.
- Graduate Diploma in Economics – Birkbeck College – University of London.
- International Politics and Policy (BA) – First Class – University of Liverpool.
Appointments & Memberships
- Personal Injury Bar Association.
- Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
- Employment Lawyers Association.
Personal Interests
Stuart loves sport and the business of sport. He is an avid but not elegant skier, and keen but not fast cyclist. When family life permits, he is an opening batsman and terrible golfer. Stuart’s sporting life peaked with a brief stint as a pro-rugby player with Saracens in his youth.
Stuart has run for Parliament twice but has now hung up his rosette.
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