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Friday 11 February 2011

Mark Harvey - Profile FAILS to mention SEROXAT & how much legal aid he sucked up!

Profile - http://www.hughjames.com/people/mark_harvey.aspx


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 300 claimants in actions arising out of the recall and health alert relating to the French manufacturer's PIP breast products as well as in actions 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.











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