Profile
Marcus specialises in Personal Injury and Insurance litigation.
He has 18 years' experience at the Bar.
His injury practice focuses on traumatic brain injury and
chronic pain litigation, mainly for Claimants and motor insurance
fraud litigation for various Insurer panels. Many of his subtle
brain injury and chronic pain cases have litigated through to trial
in recent years.
He is at the forefront of the motor insurers' fight against
fraudulent claims having been involved in five of the leading
committal cases for contempt of Court in the Divisional Court since
June 2010. He gives policy advice to Insurers on generic
litigation strategy. He was Counsel in the case of Nield &
Acromas Insurance v. Loveday & Loveday that won the award of
'Outstanding Case of the Year' at the Personal Injury Awards
2011.
He has presented 4 PIBA Seminars to his peers on the subjects of
litigating fraudulent claims and subtle brain injury cases,
including a presentation at the 2010 Winter PIBA Conference. He has
presented four 1½ hour live Webinars on chronic pain, spinal
injuries, subtle brain injury litigation and fraudulent claims for
Thompson Reuters. He was published in 2012 by the British
Pain Society and spoke at the Society's annual 2012 conference in
Liverpool.
He is a member of Lincoln's Inn and teaches on the Inn's Student
Advocacy Training Programme. He is on the PI panel of the Bar Pro
Bono Unit.
Away from the Bar his interests include his young family,
Andalucía, Headway, West London Churches Homeless Concern, the
Athenaeum, Rachmaninov, tennis and occasionally Liverpool FC.