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Stewarts Law LLP Offices

Stewarts Law LLP
5 NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON
EC4A 3BF
England
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Nick Knowles

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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.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant

Stewarts Law LLP‘s clinical negligence practice fields an ‘outstanding’ team, primarily active in complex, high-value disputes covering a spectrum of serious instances of medical negligence. This includes cognitive injuries, such as strokes, aneurysms and hypoxia, diabetic issues, rare and novel diseases, and in particular, major spinal injuries, including spinal cord infection and surgery cases. The practice is chaired by Anita Jewitt, who leads the team across the London and Leeds offices. Jewitt is constituted by experienced practitioners such as Robert Dransfield, a frequent litigator in spinal and cognitive injury cases, especially those dealing with cauda equina. Along with surgical errors, Hugh Johnson handles matters concerning injuries caused by negligence in mental health facilities. The ‘rigorous and talented’ Amy Heath frequently advises on matters regarding delayed diagnosis of serious conditions such as meningitis and sepsis, surgical and post-surgical injuries, as well as spinal infection claims. Nick Knowles  is a key port of call for claims involving children and disabled parties. Alison Goldney and Alexandra Bennett are noted for their experience settling birth injury, and cognitive injury claims.

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