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Lee Evans

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.

Mentions

London Bar

Personal injury

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Lee Evans –Farrar’s Building ‘Excellent eye for detail, quickly absorbs information, brilliant preparatory work and a pleasure to deal with. He is approachable and excellent in conference, managing the flow and direction of discussions whilst getting to the issues.'