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Lee Evans
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Barrister specialising in employment, personal injury, health and safety, judicial review/administrative and general common law; adviser to homeless charity, Alone in London.
Position
Lee Evans has a busy personal injury practice, with particular emphasis on serious brain injury, spinal injury and amputation cases.
His work includes cases that have arisen from serious industrial accidents, road traffic accidents and industrial diseases. He has a particular interest in the interpretation of workplace regulations.
He is a contributor to a number of the leading personal injury textbooks, including Kemp & Kemp and the Personal Injury Handbook. He has co-written editions of Munkman on Employers’ Liability and he is a member of the Health and Safety Executive’s panel of counsel.
Career
Called 1996, Gray’s Inn; publications: Sweet & Maxwell’s practical research paper on ‘Recent Cases in Limitation Law’ (personal injury); co-author ‘Munkman on Employers’ Liability’ (13th edition), co-author of Sweet and Maxwell’s ‘Personal Injury Handbook’ (2nd edition), ‘Leading Employment Law Junior’; ‘Insiders Guide to Employment Law’; founder, South African Legal Education Foundation (charity).
Languages
French.
Memberships
Employment Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association; qualified advocacy trainer.
Education
Dene House Comprehensive; Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Leisure
Playing football, reading, theatre, hillwalking.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
(Personal injury - Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Lee Evans –Farrar’s Building ‘A go-to counsel for complex claims.’
Farrar’s Building ‘offer a wide variety of talent‘, with ‘excellent strength and depth‘. Lee Evans continues to have a busy caseload in this area, with a focus on severe brain and spinal injuries. Andrew Arentsen is also a standout name in the set, this year acting for the dog owner in a case, in which liability is disputed, after a financial adviser suffered a tetraplegic injury after falling from a horse, provided by a supervised riding school, which had been scared by a West Highland terrier. John Meredith-Hardy has notable experience in cross-border claims.