Mark Harvey
Position
Partner, Head of the Claimant Division
Head of Harmful Products and Overseas Accidents Team
Services
Areas of expertise
- Disaster claims
- Accidents abroad
- Product liability
- Professional negligence
- Group action claims
Profile
Mark Harvey is a
Partner and Head of the Claimant Division. He has
obtained compensation for many individual victims of common but
defective consumer products as well as victims of accidents
overseas and arising out of travel generally.
Mark is presently
representing over 1,000 claimants in actions arising out
of the recall and health
alert relating to the French manufacturer's PIP
breast products. He is also responsible
for leading claims concerning various injuries and complaints
from medical devices including
Zimmer and De Puy hip prostheses. Most recently he
negotiated a settlement protocol for patients who alleged visual
problems from their cataract remedial intraocular lenses as well as
obtaining compensation for one individual who complained of a
defective hip prosthesis, and another who suffered injury from a
piece of aircraft furniture in a first class cabin.
Mark has represented
victims of most of the
travel disasters of the 1980s and 1990s, including Zeebrugge,
Clapham, P&O Lifeboat accident in Cherbourg, the
Maidenhead rail fire and more recently the Ufton Nervet rail
crossing accident. He was a member of the Steering Committees for
both the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail crashes.
He is presently
instructed on behalf of the foreign victims of an air accident
concerning four separate countries and recently obtained Euro
compensation for the foreign victims of an explosion at sea
involving three separate countries and their jurisdictions. He
is currently helping British citizens with accidents they sustained
in many different European countries as well as providing expert
advice and representation to lawyers from overseas
jurisdictions.
He
represented the first professional rugby player to
successfully sue another for an incident arising from an
international rugby game when he represented Wales professional
forward Ricky Evans in suing Oliver Merle of France following a
France versus Wales rugby game and
continues to lecture extensively on sports related injuries as well
as harmful product and overseas accident law.
Professional career
Trained: Owen White,
London
Qualified: 1990
Partner at Hugh James: 2001
Head of the Claimant Division: 2010
Mark is the current President of
Cardiff & District Law Society, a member of the Civil Justice
Council and past secretary of the Association of Personal Injury
Lawyers (APIL). He is also one of the two UK Governors of the
American Association for Justice (AAJ) and a Fellow of APIL.
Education
Gunnersbury RC School for Boys
Guildford College of Law
Languages
French
Personal interests
Golf, skiing, wine appreciation
Mark Harvey
Partner, Head of the Claimant Division
Head of Harmful Products and Overseas Accidents Team
E mark.harvey@hughjames.com
T 029 2039 1174