Call: 1986 Education: LLB (Hons), London School of Economics and Political Science
Practice Summary
Personal Injury
Clinical Negligence
Professional Negligence
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Jacob Levy undertook his pupillage in Chambers, reading with John Foy QC and John Reddihough (now a Circuit Judge).
Since that time he has forged a practice exclusively in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence work with a smaller proportion of his practice comprised of Professional Negligence claims arising out of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence cases that have gone awry.
Jacob’s practice is strongly Claimant based but he still manages a healthy smattering of Defence work. Slippers, trippers, nippers, wheezers, clippers, lifters, strainers, brainers and rear-end shunters are the staple diet of his Personal Injury practice. He has represented all the major Trade Unions over the years and lectures on many aspects of Personal Injury law.
Jacob’s Clinical Negligence practice is wholly Claimant oriented and he undertakes work in all areas of medical negligence; from birth accidents to misplaced swabs, as with his approach to Personal Injury work his motto used to be: “No case too big-no case too small.” However the passage of years and ambition has caused him to recalibrate this to; "Big, Bigger and Bigger Still...oh my!" In fact his motto used to be; “Show me the Money”. A line he used to deliver with relish to insurance companies until Tom Cruise rang him up and appropriated it.
Jacob spends his time avoiding skiing, sailing and horse riding; all pastimes for which he is temperamentally unsuited. For leisure he played 5-a-Side Football each Thursday night and did so for 25 plus years with the same steadily girth-expanding group of 9 friends - until his knees decided to take a holiday from his body and he had to hang up his plimsolls. Other than this and now with Thursday evenings football-less; detective novels, muddy guitar rock, films on DVD, cramming midnight pizza onto his plate, shoveling down cheesecake and fending off his children still occupies his time. Oh, and drafting endless Schedules of Loss
His by line is: “Eat Football, Sleep Football-Practice PI”. He has chosen not to list any recent cases of interest. After all, today’s cases are tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers.
For any relevant queries about any areas of Jacob’s practice or experience, you may contact the Clerks via email or telephone.
Listed as a Leading Junior in Clinical Negligence and recommended for his "excellent reputation as a fine junior barrister who always takes a sensible approach to his claimant clinical negligence cases."
Chambers & Partners Client's Guide 2011
Listed as a Leading Junior in Personal Injury and noted for "his thoroughness, efficiency and dedication when handling high-value personal injury cases primarily for claimants."
Chambers & Partners Client's Guide 2011
Jacob is recommended in Clinical Negligence for his "measured and thorough way of handling cases."
Chambers and Partners Client's Guide 2010
In Personal Injury, Jacob is listed as a leading junior and is rated as a "first class advocate who has a sympathetic manner with clients and a thorough understanding of the law."
Chambers and Partners Client's Guide 2010
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