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Nicholas Bevan

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Dr Nicholas Bevan is a multiple award-winning solicitor and partner at both Solicitors Title LLP and Broomhead & Saul solicitors. 

He is a nationally recognised presenter and a successful law reform campaigner.  In 2017 he was awarded a doctorate in law for his ground breaking research on EU and insurance law.  He was senior counsel at an international law firm.  He persuaded the government to pass emergency legislation sanctioning the video witnessing of wills in 2020 after executing the nation’s first video will during the Covid-19 lockdown.  

Partner

Dr Nicholas Bevan is a multiple award-winning solicitor and partner at both Solicitors Title LLP and Broomhead & Saul solicitors. 

He is a nationally recognised presenter and a successful law reform campaigner.  In 2017 he was awarded a doctorate in law for his ground breaking research on EU and insurance law.  He was senior counsel at an international law firm.  He persuaded the government to pass emergency legislation sanctioning the video witnessing of wills in 2020 after executing the nation’s first video will during the Covid-19 lockdown.  

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
An emergency measure has been introduced for the witnessing of wills, but Nicholas Bevan believes there’s been a missed opportunity
Government has clarified its COVID–19 wills plans, but some misconceptions remain, as Dr Nicholas Bevan explains
Is it a misconception that a witness needs to be physically present at a will signing? Dr Nicholas Bevan reports
Dr Nicholas Bevan explains how the Court of Appeal’s ruling in MIB v Lewis casts open the floodgates to compensation

In the first instalment of a two-part feature, Dr Nicholas Bevan, reflects on the ruling in MIB v Lewis & its implications for the UK’s compulsory third-party motor insurance regime

In the second part of this special series on R & S Pilling t/a Phoenix Engineering v UK Insurance Ltd, Nicholas Bevan analyses the Supreme Court’s approach to motor policy construction

In the first of a two-part series on R & S Pilling t/a Phoenix Engineering v UK Insurance Ltd, Nicholas Bevan considers how EU-derived domestic legislation is likely to be interpreted by the courts post-Brexit

Restoration of the status quo ante: Nicholas Bevan reviews the Supreme Court ruling in Cameron v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd

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The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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