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Stewarts Law LLP Offices
5 NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON
EC4A 3BF
England
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Nick Knowles
Work Department
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.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Transport > Travel
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Employment > Senior executives
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Dispute resolution > Public international law