Year of Call: 1991
Year of Silk: 2009
Areas of Practice:
- Commercial
- Professional Negligence
- Personal Injury
David A Stephenson QC
David practises in the three specialist areas listed, with particular interests in insurance and medical law.
David's notable recent cases include:
- McEwan v Ayrshire and Arran Health Board, [2009] CSOH 22
- Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Paul Townsend, 02 September 2009
- Mrs KT or K v Lothian Health Board [2009] CSOH 132, Reparation Bulletin 2009 91 Dec 6
- Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Margaret Gill, 30 September 2009;
- McLean v Argyle & Clyde Health Board, [2010] CSOH 54
- D's Curator Bonis v Lothian Health Board 2010 SLT (OH) 725, commented on in Reparation, Issue 94, June 2010 at pp 5-6
- Turnbull v MNT Transport (2006) Ltd, AXA Insurance UK Plc and Chaucer Syndicates Ltd 2011 SLT 650, cited in MacGillivray On Insurance Law, 11th ed., Second Supplement 23-021 and 23-022
- Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Danielle Welsh 2011 FAI 7
- D's Parent and Guardian v Argyll & Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trs, 2011 SLT 1137, the first Scottish case to address the question of periodic payments, commented on by Senior Judge Denzil Lush in Smyth v JDS, Court of Protection No.10334473, 12 January 2012 and referred to by the Privy Council in Simon v Helmot [2012] UKPC 5, 07 March 2012
David is recommended by Legal 500 as "a specialist complex medical negligence practitioner" and by Chambers as having "considerable nous and experience in medical negligence".