Neville Spencer-Lewis

Barrister Profile

Neville has enjoyed a broad practice ranging (amongst other areas) from banking (where for many years he acted for the Bank of England in cases of unauthorised deposit-taking), crime and false imprisonment, insurance and industrial accident, to partnership and the prosecution of fraud. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of personal injury, much of it in the High Court, and has also appeared at numerous inquests, having represented London Transport at the Inquest into the Moorgate tube disaster in the early 1970s. His work is equally divided between claimants and defendants (where he has the additional insight of having himself been an insurer at Lloyd's). More recently, he has represented defendants in several Health and Safety prosecutions. Neville has also appeared in several cases for Claimants obtaining freezer injunctions and pursuing claims for civil fraud.

Apart from the Bar, Neville has worked as a teacher, in the City and as a builder, and he is also a published author. 

Neville speaks conversational French and Greek, and his principal interests include his several children, travelling and walking in Greece, classical music, gardening, Welsh rugby and tennis.

Qualifications

Pembroke College, Oxford (MA)

Professional Membership

Personal Injuries Bar Association  
Professional Negligence Bar Association
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association

Interesting Cases

Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 1995) [1996] 1 WLR 970 - Mens rea in consent to unauthorised deposit taking; Royscot Trust Ltd v Rogerson (1991) 2 QB 297 - Measure of damages in misrepresentation; Padda v English and Others [2009] EWHC 114 (QB)  - Fraudulent misrepresentation, liability of wife for fraud of husband.