Stewarts Law LLP

Personal Injury

Partner and Head of the Personal Injury department.

Dan is one of the country’s leading catastrophic injury solicitors. In addition to leading the Personal Injury department at Stewarts, he also regularly provides training and thought leadership to other claimant lawyers.

For the last 25 years, Dan has only acted for clients with very serious injuries. Most of his clients sustained a spinal cord injury or a brain injury. Dan has been involved in more than 70 cases in which his client received compensation of £1m or more.

Dan’s focus is always on achieving the best outcome for clients, not just in relation to the ultimate compensation award at the end of the case, but also in terms of early access to rehabilitation and funding to purchase equipment, pay for care, buy and adapt accommodation, and generally ensure clients have the help they need to adjust to life after injury.

Since 2022 he has been Head of Personal Injury with responsibility for ensuring the service we provide to all the department’s clients – and the results we obtain for them – remains second to none.

Experience

• Acted for a 21-year-old tetraplegic woman injured in a road traffic collision. Hercase settled for £23 million.
• Acted for a 19-year-old tetraplegic man injured in a road traffic collision. His case settled for a lump sum of £5 million plus annual periodical payments of £165,000 rising to £205,000 from the age of 60. The settlement was equivalent to a lump sum of £16.25 million.
• Acted for a 22-year-old paraplegic man injured when he was deliberately run down by a gang who stole his van. His case settled for £10 million.
• Acted for a 29-year-old man who sustained a traumatic below knee amputation of his right leg in an accident at work. His case settled for £3.4 million.
• Acted for an eight-year-old boy who sustained a very severe traumatic brain injury when he was hit by a car as he crossed the road. The case had been conducted by a number of law firms who had advised that the case did not have reasonable prospects of success. Stewarts succeeded at a trial on liability in 2015 (AB v Main [2015]) and the client went on to secure a seven figure settlement.
• Acted for a 20-year-old man who sustained a spinal cord injury in a road traffic accident at the wheel of a works van. The case was dismissed at first instance but succeeded in the Court of Appeal (Eyres v Atkinsons Kitchens & Bedrooms Ltd [2007]).

Dan joined Stewarts in 2000. He has been a partner and head of the Leeds office since 2003.

Croatian.

Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) APIL accredited specialist spinal cord injury solicitor Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) panel solicitor Headway panel solicitor

Dan is a football fan: as well as being a Manchester United season ticket holder, he also coaches a junior football team. When given the chance, he relaxes in Cornwall and Croatia.