Experience
Civil / Personal Injury
Lee has over 15 years’ experience of civil procedure and litigation. He has worked for several personal injury firms in roles that require specialist and technical knowledge of the civil procedure rules. Lee has advocacy experience across a wide variety of civil matters including trials, applications, disposal hearings, case management conferences, infant / patient hearings etc.
Credit Hire
Lee has a particular interest in credit hire claims and is familiar with all relevant authorities relating to need, period, rate, impecuniosity, enforceability etc. Having attended hundreds of credit hire trials, Lee is uniquely placed to represent Defendant Insurers’ interests. Lee has a clear eye for detail and can identity tiny evidential deficiencies that will result in limiting damages awarded and maximising savings.
Costs
Lee also has extensive experience of all matters relating to costs arising from personal injury and credit hire litigation. Lee has knowledge of drafting bills of costs, points of reply, applications etc. and has advocated hundreds of summary assessments, oral review hearings, Part 8 hearings and costs applications.
Recent cases
During his time at a national sized solicitors, Lee directly instructed Senior Counsel and/or was significantly involved in the appeals process in a number of principle setting cases:
- Mulholland v Hughes (2015) – A first instance appeal before HHJ Freedman which confirmed the scope to which damages could be challenged at a Stage 3 hearing, in circumstances where issues had not been raised during the Stage 2 process. This case was cited and approved by the Court of Appeal in the recent case of London Borough of Islington v Bourous [2022] EWCA Civ 1242.
- Phillips v Willis [2016] EWCA Civ 401 – A second appeal before the Court of Appeal relating to when a case should leave the Stage 3 process. This case was also cited by the Court of Appeal in London Borough of Islington v Bourous [2022] EWCA Civ 1242.
- Broadhurst v Tan [2016] EWCA Civ 94 – A second appeal before the Court of Appeal which confirmed that a Claimant is entitled to indemnity costs (post-expiry) where a Part 36 offer is beaten in a fixed costs case.
- Hislop v Perde [2018] EWCA Civ 1726 – A second appeal before the Court of Appeal which confirmed that indemnity costs were not recoverable on late acceptance of a Part 36, but were still recoverable where conduct was considered ‘out of the norm’.