Marc spent nearly a decade forming and leading the in-house advocacy team with one of the top firms of solicitors in the UK. During that time he built up wide experience of a range of both personal injury and non-personal injury civil litigation, acting for both claimants and defendants.
Areas included were;
- Catastrophic Personal Injury
- Brain Injury
- Industrial Injury and Disease
- Road Traffic
- EL and general PL Claims, including sporting injuries
Civil Litigation and Costs
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Civil Litigation
Having led an in-house team (indeed Marc practised for a short time as a solicitor), Marc has developed an exceptional costs awareness and experience. He obtained one of the early strike outs of a CFA and has substantial experience of Detailed Assessment hearings.
Inquests, Regulatory and Professional Discipline
Marc regularly appears in Coroner's Courts throughout the UK.
His experience ranges from two-hour road traffic inquests, through two-day aviation fatality inquests, to multi-day jury inquests into fatalities involving the various health and social care authorities. Whilst in-house, in one year, Marc recovered over £500,000 for a single insurer client in CRU Appeals.
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Marc is hugely experienced in Low Velocity Impact (LVI) claims and road traffic claims where fraud is an issue. His industrial disease practice has included HAVS, NIHL and forms of asbestos-related disease.
He is a specialist in procedural matter and was Counsel for the defendant at first instance in Bennett v Compass Group UK and Ireland Ltd [2002]. Marc has regularly appeared before many of the North of England Designated Civil Judges, both on late and complex applications and appeals.
Marc's personal interest is recreational aviation. He is a Law Society registered expert in such matters and his service as a member of a local authority give him particular insight into claims involving such issues. He has a reputation for taking on cases which are not run of the mill. Recently he successfully defended a prosecution for the disturbance of Great Crested Newts under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and The Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994 in the Magistrates Court.
