David has practised in personal injury litigation throughout his career. He advises and appears on behalf of both claimants and defendants. He was involved in the Ativan group action in the 1990s. He now specialises predominantly in high value and complex claims usually involving brain damage resulting in motor, cognitive, personality and behavioural changes and spinal injury resulting in tetraplegia and paraplegia. He has wide experience of the investigation and presentation of issues arising from local authority accommodation and care.

ES v CICA – Instructed by applicant in a criminal injuries compensation claim where the then infant applicant had sustained a severe brain injury at the hands of his father resulting in asymmetric cerebral palsy manifesting itself in severe mobility, intellectual impairment, significant communication problems and visual difficulties. The applicant had epilepsy and behavioural problems. He lacked capacity to manage financial matters of any sort. He required 24 hour care and special schooling. The CIC panel made an award of £5.7million on a 100% basis but reduced this by the uprated value of an approved clinical negligence settlement on a partial recovery basis arising from the same facts where the hospital had failed to recognise that the applicant had suffered some non accidental injuries and discharged him home to the care of his father who then caused the brain injury. The net value of the award was £2.7million.

B v S – Instructed by defendant in a claim by a female claimant with long life expectancy claimed substantial periodical payments of damages for future care and case management where on a conventional basis claim valued at in excess of £7.5m

B v F & MIB – Instructed on behalf of Polish claimant suffering orthopaedic, neurological and urological and colo-rectal injuries in accident at work in England and who had returned to live in Poland recovered substantial damages for future loss of earnings and future care

K & K C – Instructed by defendant in Fatal Accident Act claim where the claim for dependency was founded on the premise that it was contended that the deceased graduate would have opened a successful private school in Pakistan

Wright v Sullivan [2005] EWCA Civ 656 – Instructed by the claimant in an appeal in which the Court of Appeal held that a case manager appointed by a severely injured person to assist her owed duties to the patient alone and had to make decisions in the best interest of the patient. Her role would be that of a witness of fact and not an expert and she should not be appointed by the parties jointly.

McLaughlin v F & B Limited (Simon J. 7/2/2003) – Instructed by the defendant in a claim by a tunnel miner where it was held that he have only worked to age 55 years [and not to age 60 or 65 as he contended] because of supervening lupus.

White v Fell (1987 unreported) – Instructed by the defendant in the first case in which the test for mental capacity was expounded by Boreham J. which decision which was later followed in Masterman Lister v Jewell & Home Counties Dairy.

Instructed on behalf of claimants who are Commonwealth citizens who sustained Non Freezing Cold Injuries during British Army training as a result of which they have been medically discharged thereby losing the opportunity to acquire British Citizenship and o live and work in the UK

Instructed by claimant in brain injury claim where capacity to litigate and manage own property and affairs are both in issue

Instructed by defendant in brain injury claim where there are significant issues as to pre-accident potential to work and to live independently