Nick Knowles > Stewarts Law LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Nick Knowles

020 7822 8000 nknowles@stewartslaw.com View profile

Work Department

Clinical Negligence

Position

Partner in the Clinical Negligence department. Nick has enormous experience in handling complex catastrophic injury claims. He has secured many multimillion pound settlements for his clients. Nick acted for the claimant in the important and much-quoted case of Masterman-Lister v Brutton & Co., which formulated the test for mental capacity.

Nick handles high-value cases, mainly brain and spinal injury claims, and his clients often include children and protected parties (who lack mental capacity). Sometimes he is instructed by the Official Solicitor and in many cases liability is a hard-fought issue.

Compensation secured for children include £2m for brain injury (meningitis), US$4.5m (bronchiolitis) and for spinal cord injury £12.5m (spinal tumour). Other brain injury damages include £5m (encephalitis) and £4m (locked-in syndrome). Other spinal injury damages include £5.6m, £6.5m and £1.5m.

Career

Nick qualified in 1979 with David Lee & Co, who handled cutting-edge litigation for high-profile clients. In 1994, he became joint senior partner in Needleman Knowles. Nick joined Stewarts in 1999 as a partner in order to specialise in clinical negligence.

Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of APIL
• Member of the AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel
• Member of PEOPIL
• Member of Litigation Sub-Committee of the City of Westminster & Holborn Law Society

Education

Dover College; Southampton University (1976 LLB Hons).

Leisure

Family, tennis, cricket.