Louis Weston

Call 1994
Email louis.weston@3pb.co.uk
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Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence

Louis Weston is ranked as a leading junior by Chambers and Partners Directory 2012: 'Louis Weston of 3PB Barristers is fast forging a name for himself in horse racing cases. Sources confess to being impressed by his "truly disarming manner. He has charm coupled with real intellectual rigour." A man with considerable experience, he frequently appears both before and on behalf of the BHA.'

Louis is recommended as a Leading Junior by the Legal 500 Directory 2011, where he is described as "The ‘talented and tenacious’ Louis Weston at 3PB.".

 

 

Louis Weston was educated at Winchester and briefly studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital  before taking a First in Philosophy from Bristol University in 1992 and winning the Miller Barstow Prize in 1991.   He is ranked in both the Chambers Directory and the Legal 500 as a leading Junior.

He has a strong practice based upon his hard work, preparation and powerful, robust advocacy and clear advice with particular expertise and experience in Clinical Negligence and appears healthcare tribunals.

His Clinical Negligence practice spans Doctors, Veterinary Surgeons and Healthcare Professionals. He has advised and is currently in instructed in a range of clinical negligence cases including:

• Delayed and other failures of diagnosis.  He has advised in cases of misdiagnosis of cancers, failure to diagnose and treat cancer and MRSA.
• Defective implants and medicines. He has a history of product liability cases from his commercial work and is currently instructed in a number of cases of PIP implant cases.  He has previously advised in cases involving prosthetics and misrepresentation of efficacy of medicines and vaccines.
• Clinical incompetence including failed cosmetic surgery. He has advised in failed cosmetic surgery and other cosmetic procedures involving failed techniques as well as defective products and defective procedures both in respect of clinical and commercial claims.
• Failures of consent.  He has acted in cases involving negligent failure to obtain informed consent and content to surgery and other intervention.
• Negligent Veterinary Treatment. He has acted in commercial litigation arising from negligent veterinary products as well as in negligent vetting and treatment of Racehorses.  Such claims have involved millions of pounds in compensation.

He has lectured to solicitors and practitioners on clinical negligence and related topics.

In 2009 he was appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit.