Dr Nicholas Braslavsky QC

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Head of Chambers

Year of Call: 1983
Year of Silk: 1999 

Nick is a leading practitioner in the fields of:

• Regulatory law
• Personal injury
• Clinical negligence

He has practised in these fields since 1984. He took silk in 1999 and became Head of Chambers in January, 2010. He is a Recorder (crime and civil) and a Deputy Judge of the High Court (QBD).

He has a wide experience of various aspects of sports (including recreational activities) law including criminal, regulatory and tortious liability.

Regulatory - rugby league, horse racing with wide general experience of regulatory tribunals. Motor cycling including trademarking and machinery design.

Injury - claims arising out of outward bound adventure training activities, off-road (vehicle/quad bike) competitions, rallying, go-karting, motorcycle accidents, design modification as well as more commonly associated sporting injuries (head and spine)

Criminal - health and safety prosecutions in respect of off-road driving, rallying, swimming and adventure training activities.

 

Recommendations:

Chambers UK 2012:

Nicholas Braslavsky QC is head of chambers and straddles both personal injury and clinical negligence work. He continues to have notable success in cases concerning cerebral palsy, birth asphyxia and misdiagnosed cancer issues, and is described as a "sound advocate who is cool, calm,collected and highly astute”. 

Nicholas Braslavsky QC excels in complex high-value head and spinal injury cases. Clients value his "ability to get to the centre of the most complex cases." Recently, his practice has been concentrating on claims by military and private security personnel. The "immensely talented, well-prepared and persuasive".

Legal 500 2011:

Dr Nicholas Braslavsky QC is "excellent, thorough, a great advocate and good with clients".

Chambers UK 2011:

Nicholas Braslavsky QC is a very experienced practitioner who handles a whole range of clinical negligence issues with great skill.

Nicholas Braslavsky QC has a thorough and tough approach to litigation but also demonstrates a "supreme ability to put clients at ease." He has recently been acting for an army officer in a paraplegia claim valued at over £4 million.

 

Career & Education:

University:                           University of Birmingham (1976 - 1982)

Degree:                               LL.B Hons (1979) Ph.D (1982)

Year of Call:                        1983 (Inner Temple)

Queen's Counsel:                 1999  

Recorder of the Crown Court: 2001

Official Appointments:           Deputy High Court Judge 2008