David Evans KC specialises in clinical negligence litigation, almost exclusively in cases involving brain and spinal injury. He acts for both claimants and defendants. David has developed a specific expertise in quantum, in particular the analysis and quantification of catastrophic high value brain and spinal injury claims, including birth injury, wrongful birth, acquired brain injury, meningitis and spinal cord injury.
He has a sub-specialty in government work following his 8 years on the Attorney-General’s ‘A’ panel of Counsel to the Crown and since taking silk, he continues to act for government departments in public inquiries and serious injury claims. He is security-cleared to developed vetted (DV) level.
Call: 1988; KC: 2012; Middle Temple (Harmsworth scholar)
Junior counsel to the Crown (Common Law) Attorney-General’s A Panel 2008-12); accredited mediation and arbitrator; (ADR Group Panel member; MCIArb). Publications: contributing editor to ‘Compromise’ and ‘Torts, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence’ in ‘Butterworths’ Civil Court Precedents’; contributing editor to ‘Atkin – Court Forms Civil Procedure’.
French, basic Spanish.
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb); panel of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council; ADR Group panel.
Monmouth School; subaltern, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales; Christ’s College, Cambridge open scholarship; MA Hons (History and Law).
Commercial lobster and crab potting, sea fishing, beachcombing, country pursuits, hill walking, gardening, beekeeping.