Personal Injury, Civil Fraud

Call 20091994Associate Partner at J Rothschild Partnership, Mayfair

2002Civil clerk at Sovereign Chambers, Leeds

2009Pupil at Sovereign Chambers, Leeds

2015Sovereign Chambers becomes Park Square Barristers

Appointments:2012CPS Panel of Advocates

North Eastern Circuit

Personal Injury

Stuart prides himself on his busy personal injury practice, regularly acting on behalf of defendants or claimants in road traffic claims, employers liability, and public liability cases.

Stuart has amassed significant court experience from interlocutory applications to fast-track and multi-track trials. In addition he is often instructed to represent parties in disposal hearings and MOJ Stage 3 hearings, particularly involving technical procedural issues..

Stuart regularly advises on liability and quantum in addition to drafting statements of case, and undertakes work at all stages and is happy to advise on procedure and tactics.  Stuart is prepared to consider instructions on a CFA, on a case by case basis.

Civil Fraud

Stuart Young is a member of our specialist civil fraud team, and is regularly instructed to act on behalf of a number of leading defendant insurers as panel Counsel.

He is regularly instructed in cases where fraud is alleged or imputed, or in other suspicious cases where a robust and thorough defence is required.

He is considerable experience in cases involving alleged fraud rings, phantom passenger claims, low velocity impact (LVI), exaggeration and credit hire claims.

Stuart is instructed from pre-issue advice to conference with insured and insurer clients, drafting pleadings, attending interlocutory pleadings and attends complex fraud trials all over the country.

1994Wolverhampton University, BA (Hons) Business Enterprise

2006Leeds Metropolitan University, PGDip Law

2008BPP Law School Leeds, BVC (‘very competent’)