Juliet Stevens

Property Damage

Juliet has experience of a wide variety of property damage matters, including tree root subsidence claims, underground cable strike claims, flooding and fire.

She has a particular interest in property damage claims arising from matters of product liability.

Selected Cases

• Acted for an insurer in a recovery action concerning a house fire said to have been caused by a defective residual current device.
• Acted for a commercial livestock farmer in relation to a claim arising from the supply of defective animal Considerable consequential loss was claimed.
• Advised an insurer as to the prospects of a successful claim for compensation against a police authority under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 in relation to commercial property damage.
• Successfully defended a local authority at trial in claim arising from damage to private property during Storm Imogen in 2016.
• Settled Particulars of Claim in a claim arising from a fire at agricultural premises which caused the damage of extensive grain stock.
• Settled Defences in two separate claims arising from a fire at catering premises blamed on inadequate commercial cleaning.
• Acted on behalf of a local authority in a claim arising from the flooding of a historic church allegedly caused by a failure to maintain public drains.
• Settled Particulars of Claim in a claim concerning damage caused subsequent to alleged misrouting of sewerage connections within a business park development.
• Acted on behalf of a county council in relation to alleged subsidence caused by reprofiling of a drainage culvert.
• Instructed in relation to litigation concerning sailing boats moored in a marina, in which it was alleged that metal filings generated by nearby construction works had damaged the decks.
• Settled Particulars of Claim regarding the failure of an electrical installation within a petrol station complex which resulted in property damage and extensive economic loss.
• Settled a Defence and advised a private sports club in relation to flooding allegedly caused by insufficient drainage provision on the club’s land.

Awards

• Queen Mother’s Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2015
• Prize winner, Marion Simmons QC Essay Competition, Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers, 2015
• Astbury Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2014
• Highest ranked novice debating pair (team and individual speaker scores) at the Inner Temple IV Moot, 2014
• Excellence in Leadership Award, London Medical Deanery, 2011
• Proxime accessit, Final Medical Examinations, University of Oxford, 2010
• Undergraduate Academic Scholarship, Hertford College, University of Oxford, 2005-07

News

• 25 for 25: The Pro Bono Challenge
• Juliet Stevens represents family at a three-day inquest: Regulation 28 Reports made and doctor referred to GMC

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Articles

• The cost of commercial surrogacy abroad is a recoverable head of loss: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14
• Appealing findings made by the TCC: guidance from the Court of Appeal

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Qualifications

• BPTC, City University (2016)
• GDL (Distinction), City University (2015)
• 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