Juliet Stevens

Personal Injury

Juliet has a busy personal injury practice, acting both for claimants and defendants. She is instructed as sole counsel in high value claims, and regularly fights matters to trial.

She is instructed in matters which cover the breadth of Personal Injury:

• Psychiatric injury claims, including ‘stress at work’ and secondary victim claims.
• Road traffic accident claims, including cycling accidents, accidents abroad, actions brought against highway authorities and fatal accident claims.
• Employers’ liability claims, arising from accidents in industry, within schools for children with challenging behaviours and involving staff at psychiatric units.
• Public liability claims, including anaphylactic shock claims, school and school trip claims, holiday resorts claims, accidents in public playgrounds/gyms and during domestic building works.
• Part 20 claims against NHS Trusts and individual medical practitioners, in which it is alleged that subsequent negligent medical care compounded loss and damage suffered as a result of an index accident.
• Occupiers’ liability claims, including claims arising from accidents in outdoor premises and claims involving contractors.

Juliet is also regularly instructed as junior counsel.

Selected Cases

Selected cases include:

• Cavanaugh v Folsana Pressed Sections Limited [2024] – led by David Platt KC in a claim in which the claimant alleged psychiatric injury arising from the disciplinary process prior to his dismissal for gross misconduct. Press coverage here.
• EG v Groupama – led by Alexander Antelme KC and Andrew Davis KC, in a case concerning a fatal accident in France caused by the failure of a lorry tire. The claimant advanced a claim for over 90 million euros. The claim gave rise to issues of relevant French law, quantification and product liability.
• RS v Marzetti (1) Kelly Communications Plant Ltd (2) – Instructed as junior counsel, led by Andrew Davis, in a road traffic injury claim pleaded at £7 million. The claim proceeded to a 5 day trial on the matter of quantum alone, liability having been admitted. Settlement was reached during trial.

She is a member of the Personal Injury Bar Association.

Awards

News

• Success for David Platt KC and Juliet Stevens in a ‘stress at work’ PI claim
• Victoria Woodbridge elected as the next Chair of the PNBA

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Articles

• Success for David Platt KC and Juliet Stevens in a ‘stress at work’ PI claim
• The cost of commercial surrogacy abroad is a recoverable head of loss: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14

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Qualifications

• BPTC, City University (2016)
• GDL (Distinction), City University (2015)
• Queen Mother’s Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2015
• Astbury Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2014
• Part 1 Membership Examination, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2011)
• Medicine BM BCh (Distinction), University of Oxford (2010)
• Medical Sciences MA (First Class), University of Oxford (2007)

Memberships

• PNBA
• PIBA
• LCLCBA