Stewarts Law LLP

International Injury

Partner in the International Injury department.

Scott is recognised as one of the leading international injury and travel lawyers in the UK, ranked in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. Hugely experienced, he has recovered over £150m in damages for his clients in the UK and worldwide. He represented the claimant in the landmark case of Wall v Mutuelle de Poitiers Assurances.

Scott’s expertise spans a broad range of international serious/catastrophic personal injury cases including adventure, sports and leisure accidents, European and international road traffic accidents and holiday claims and disputes.

He is also experienced in international recoveries, subrogation and insurance issues, travel insurance policy disputes.

Scott is well-versed in travel and tourism law, consumer travel issues, package travel regulations and international conventions including Montreal and Athens. His private international law expertise includes cases involving the Brussels Regulations and Convention, and Rome I and II Regulations.

Experience:

• Wall v Mutuelle de Poitiers Assurances – Scott’s client sustained a spinal cord injury in France. This Court of Appeal judgment involved application of EU Regulation 864/2007 (Rome II), substantive and procedural law and expert evidence.
• Zac (A Minor) v The Estate of A (deceased) – The first periodical payment order made under the Damages (Jersey) Law 2019. The client had sustained a traumatic brain injury in Jersey.
• £8 million pound settlement for a client, a UK national, who sustained a spinal cord injury in Belgium.
• Multi-million-pound settlement for a client, a Spanish national, who sustained a double amputation as a result of an accident at work.
• Settlement for a UK resident who sustained a brain injury as a result of suffering carbon monoxide poisoning while staying in a hotel in USA.

Scott qualified as a solicitor in 2003 having trained at Leigh Day. He joined Stewarts in 2006 and became a partner in 2013. He has worked exclusively for catastrophically injured clients for over 20 years.

Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) – accredited Senior Litigator, Accidents Abroad Specialist and Accidents Abroad Specialist Assessor Travel and Tourism Lawyers’ Association Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers Headway & Spinal Injuries Association

Redhill Comprehensive, Nottingham; Sheffield Hallam University (2000, LLB Hons, First Class); College of Law, London (2001, Commendation).

Scott enjoys travel, theatre, Italian food and wine. Attending the Eurovision Song Contest is his not so guilty pleasure.