Simon Plaut

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Year of Call: 1997

Simon is a specialist in personal injury litigation and is regularly instructed by solicitors nationally to deal with cases at multi track level involving:-

·                road traffic accidents
·                employer's liability
·                public liability (highways, occupiers)
·                fatal accidents
·                credit hire (principally for Defendants)
·                inquests arising out of accidents
·                sports related accidents
·                holiday accidents
·                accidents involving animals
·                CICA claims

He also has an extensive practice in all aspects of occupational disease litigation:-

·                deafness
·                hand-arm vibration syndrome
·                asbestos related illnesses
·                dermatitis
·                stress

 

Reported Cases

Hall v Holker Estate Co Ltd  [2008] EWCA Civ 1422  (duty of occupier; reversal of burden of proof)

Roberts v Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd (calculation of pension loss after redundancy and employment by subsequent employer) [2009] EWCA Civ 932

 

Significant Cases

Simon has recently been involved in the litigation and conclusion of the following cases which are notable either due to their value or nature of the issues involved (names of parties are kept anonymous):-

Motorcycle accident - acting for Claimant, devastating injuries to knee, possibility of amputation, loss of earning capacity, settled £809,000

Deafness - acting for Defendant, breach and medical causation in issue, successfully defeating claim

Deafness - acting for Claimant, causation in issue, experts disagree as to which control population the Claimant should be compared, successfully recovering damages

Simon currently acts for UK Coal in the British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation overseen by Swift J.

Memberships

APIL

PIBA

Career & Education

Called:              Lincoln's Inn 1997 (Hardwicke and Denning Scholar)

University:         St Catharine's College, Cambridge (MA) Law

                        Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Law, Kings College, London