Tim Blackwell - Partner

Tim advises on all aspects of personal injury litigation, mostly involving catastrophic or fatal injury. He has particular experience in dealing with cases involving spinal or brain injury, clinical negligence and cases involving asbestos exposure, particularly mesothelioma.

Tim is widely recognised as an expert in personal injury litigation particularly catastrophic injury claims, clinical negligence, industrial disease and marine accidents, but does take on other high value or complex cases.

• APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers)
• APIL special interest groups for spinal and brain injury, and also clinical negligence
• Law Society Personal Injury Panel Member

Recent work

• Advising where the claimant crew member of a passenger liner sustained personal injury (principally psychiatric) in an attack by Somali pirates off the east coast of Africa. The claim gave rise to difficult issues of breach of duty, causation, jurisdiction and quantum and was successfully compromised in advance of trial.
• Acting on behalf of a child who was 5 days old at the time of a car accident when she suffered catastrophic injury which resulted in paraplegia. Tim was successful in recovering £1.8 million for her and helping her with her future rehabilitation and medical treatment, and providing a suitably adapted home.
• McIntyre v Harland & Wolff (Court of Appeal) - A claim for damages on behalf of the estate and dependent wife of a husband who died from mesothelioma. Damages at 98% of the scheduled claims were recovered at trial. The defendant's appeal as to the entitlement to a dependency upon a savings/pension fund paid out to the deceased very shortly before his death was successfully opposed. The Court of Appeal considered the effect of Section 4 of the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 in detail.
• Thompson v Butler (Court of Appeal) - brain damage following road accident.