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Nicholas Truelove
Position
Nicholas is a full member of the Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury team at Kings Chambers and is regularly instructed to act for both Claimants and Defendants on a range of different matters in both the County Court and those claims issued in the High Court.
Nicholas is happy to accept cases on a CFA basis and is often instructed to represent claims involving road traffic accidents including credit hire agreements, and is equally comfortable with public and employer liability matters. Nicholas also has experience in fatal accident claims often appearing on behalf of families at inquests and managing subsequent claims thereafter. Nicholas also represents both claimants and defendants in clinical negligence cases and has a particular expertise in representing clients in respect of missed or delayed diagnoses cases.
Career
Nicholas acts predominantly for Claimants in all areas of Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Litigation. He has experience in handling, and successfully settling or taking to trial, claims where the injured party has sustained life-changing injuries.
As part of his growing practice, Nicholas is regularly instructed as junior counsel on complex high-value cases requiring a silk and junior counsel.
Memberships
Middle Temple
Amnesty International
Education
BA (Joint Honours) American Studies with Media and Cultural Studies: University of Birmingham (2007-2010).
LLB (Honours) Law: University of Birmingham (2010-2012).
(Winner: Law School Debate Competition, 2011).
Bar Professional Training Course: Kaplan Law School, London (2012-2013).
MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice: Lincoln College, Oxford University (2014-2015).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Nicholas Truelove – Kings Chambers ‘Nick is an excellent advocate and intuitive and voracious in cross-examination. His skills and legal knowledge in advising clients in conference are particularly impressive and he has a natural empathy with experts which allows them to feel comfortable in providing their evidence in a way which will most benefit the client and the judge.’
Kings Chambers is well-known as ‘an excellent set with plenty of strength in depth’ when it comes to clinical negligence work. Satinder Hunjan KC handles complex and high-profile cases, standing out for ‘his mastery of the expert evidence’. Anna Diamond’s ‘knowledge of the issues of clinical practice and medicine is outstanding’. Nicholas Truelove has recently been instructed by a claimant in relation to a group litigation against the neurosurgery department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, concerning the systematic misplacement of brain stimulation devices used to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Nicholas Truelove – Kings Chambers ‘Nick is an excellent advocate and intuitive and voracious in cross-examination. His skills and legal knowledge in advising clients in conference are particularly impressive and he has a natural empathy with experts which allows them to feel comfortable in providing evidence.’