David Drewe

David specialises in handling high value, complex and unusual claims for insurers and health service bodies.

He has over 35 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including the public and health sectors and the construction industry.

David specialises in providing support to clients involved in claims which require sensitive handling, in particular stress, bullying and harassment claims. He also has considerable experience of managing multi-party actions

Relevant experience includes:

• Successfully defending two Health Service Trusts against stress and harassment claims brought respectively by a consultant paediatrician and a registered nurse.
• Defeating a claim brought against a climbing wall operator by a climber who was paralysed whilst using its wall.
• Settling a claim at mediation for a substantial six figure sum following a particularly damaging data breach by his client.
• Representing a building company against whom a claim was brought by its employee who narrowly escaped death as a result of a fall from an improperly loaded crane, persuading the crane operator to take over conduct of the claim.
• Representing an airline in the Aerotoxicity litigation.

David is Vice Chair of Governors of a Primary School in a deprived part of Newcastle, and is a former President of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Law Society.