Injury lawyer details for Mark Harvey

Partner in charge of the Specialist Claims group at Hugh James in Cardiff and London where he heads up that office.

He has obtained compensation for many individual victims of common but defective consumer products as well as victims of accidents overseas and arising out of travel, sport and leisure generally. He also leads a team who seek to remedy situations in which there has been a data breach or a breach of their confidential information. 

Lead solicitor in the PIP Breast Implant group litigation order in the High Court in London and pursuing several hundred related cases in the French High Court, he has been a member of the steering committees for the metal hip litigation and recovered compensation for many who had defective hips as well as intraocular lenses. He has obtained compensation for foreign and UK individuals in employment and holiday related accidents on land, sea and air.

Mark successfully represented the first rugby player to win compensation following an incident during a rugby international and has represented other victims of sporting injuries both professional and amateur, including recovering very substantial compensation for a first class rugby player blinded during a game.

He is a past Secretary of APIL and now a Senior Fellow as well as an assessor for their Accident Abroad lawyers' panel; immediate past UK governor of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and Wales' first and only member of the Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL). 

A published author for Jordans and Thomson Reuters for the APIL Guides to Conditional Fees, Costs and Funding; the Chapters on Product Liability and Group Actions in the Personal Injury loose leaf as well as being a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Personal Injury Law and Kemp and Kemp on Quantum.

He has been described as a “Leader in Personal Injury and Product Liability” in Chamber and Partners and the Legal 500 for 1999 – 2024.