Stuart Kightley – Partner
Stuart runs the Personal
Injury department with Senior Partner Wendy
Wright. After a spell with the Crown Prosecution Service
he joined the firm in 1994 in order to specialise in PI work.
Early successes included his first full trial where the Claimant
with a badly broken ankle recovered £250,000 damages,
and another substantial settlement in a case where a design
fault in the cab of a London bus caused the driver a repetitive
strain injury.
He has since built a thriving
practice representing clients in head
injury and work
accident cases.
Recent cases involving
six figure settlements include a client brain damaged from
a road
accident, a nurse injured in catching a falling patient,
a shop worker with a head injury from a metal bar falling
from a shelf, a contractor who fell through a skylight, sustaining
multiple injuries and a paraplegia claim to the Criminal Injuries
Compensation Authority.
Stuart is actively involved in the campaigning group the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, which champions the rights of accident victims. He lectures regularly for APIL and was recently appointed a Fellow of the organisation. He is also on the Law Society PI Panel.
In April 2007 Stuart was elected to APIL’s national Executive Committee.
Stuart was recognised as a leading lawyer in the field of Claimant Personal Injury in the 2010 edition of the lawyer guide Chambers & Partners. He was commended for the first time and the guide noted that he has "earned a number of glowing recommendations" in the past year.
When not at work he will be fell walking or cycling far away.
  
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