Chambers of Philip Mott QC
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Nathan Tavares
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Position
Principal areas of practice are personal injury for both claimant and defendant. Nathan is highly specialised in catastrophic injury claims. He has acted in numerous cases involving complex brain or spinal injury, and also has a detailed knowledge of claims with a psychiatric element sitting, as he does, as a judge of the Mental Health Tribunal. He also has a specialisation concerning injury from horse riding accidents, aviation accidents and claims involving the MoD. Notable cases include: CRE v CRF & MIB (recovered more than £9m in settlement for claimant with brain injury); Evans v Souls Garages, QBD (established liability against a petrol station for selling petrol to a boy who suffered 40% burns after playing with the petrol); Blake v Galloway, CA (leading case on the duty of care owed during horseplay); Freeman v Lockett, QBD (claim to reduction in relation to state funding of care defeated); Gleeson v Court, QBD (contributory negligence for passenger travelling in boot of car driven by drunken driver held to 30%); Clarke v Wharton (compromised claim for claimant with periodical payments of £280,000 pa plus £1.35m lump sum); Mirvahedy v Henley (dealt with the quantum side of this leading case concerning s.2, Animals Act 1971); Kadlec v Lhor Industrie, County Ct. (acted for the French manufacturer of an LGV vehicle in a product liability action against it); Davies v Bradshaw, QBD (assessment of damages for an incomplete tetraplegic including decision on provisional damages).
Career
Called to the Bar 1992; judge of the Mental Health Review Tribunal since 2004.
Member
Western Circuit; PNBA; PIBA; AVMA; MHLA.
Education
BSc Hons (Aeronautics); CPE; Inns of Court School of Law.
Practice Areas
Clinical negligence - either side; Personal injury - either side; Professional negligence
