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 600 claimants in actions arising out of the Seroxat and Vioxx pharmaceutical products as well as in actions concerning various injuries and complaints from medical devices. 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 in 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 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.

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.