Nicholas Leviseur

Call 1979
Email nicholas.leviseur@3pb.co.uk
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Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence

Called in 1979 and a member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association Nicholas Leviseur has an extensive practice and considerable experience in serious personal injury and clinical negligence claims particularly those involving disputes between experts as to causation and high value cases where quantification of damage raises serious issues of principle. He is regularly instructed in brain injury cases and has a particular expertise in managing multi disciplinary teams of experts from an early stage in the litigation process.

Recent instructions have included actions against the Home Office for injuries of great severity inflicted by inmates on fellow prisoners and against the MoD in respect of injuries and death suffered by servicemen. He has considerable familiarity with issues which commonly arise in whole life loss of earnings and care cases and is a contributor to the PNBA publication Facts and Figures.

Clinical negligence cases of interest have included genital surgery, general practitioner want of care, obstetric disasters, neurological misdiagnosis and those in which there has been a real absence of consent to surgical intervention. He has also appeared in a number of important cases in which very real issues of contributory negligence have been addressed by the Court of Appeal.

Notable Cases

Akers v Heald and the MIB The Times 14 January 2003 CA

Eagle v Chambers (No 1) [2004] RTR 9 CA

Eagle v Chambers (No 2) [2005] 1WLR 3081 CA

Roe v Novak and Manchester City Council The Times 27 November 1998 CA

Stacey v Joint Mission Hospital Equipment Board The Times 5 November 2001